cerebralhawks

DDDD.

Assuming the description is incomplete and they're oatmeal raisin. Because I see raisins.

I know some people hate oatmeal (raisin) cookies, so lemme drop some sweet truth on you. Replace the raisins with butterscotch chips. "Oatmeal Scotchies" are vastly superior to chocolate chip cookies!

Well, I wouldn't call The Outer Worlds on Switch unplayable in any technical sense. It is playable, it just looks like smeared shit so it's kind of hard to look at for long periods of time. All video games give me some degree of motion sickness, but one that's blurry and janky is going to do it much much faster.

But yes, I would love to know how they justified saying Bloodstained would run on a Wii U or a PS Vita. My guess is they changed the engine partway through development, and the old version that we never saw would run on those platforms. But at some point they ditched the old engine for the newer one, and decided that even the Switch port would use the new version, performance hit be damned. My guess is, it was originally a straight up 2D game (maybe with some depth), but the addition of curves (like when you approach the castle, or the dragon towers) required a newer engine that would not run on Wii U or PS Vita. That's just a guess, but it does check all the boxes, and it fits the narrative of Bloodstained being Iga's passion project. So he probably kept adding to it, and adding to it some more, trying to make it the biggest Iga-vania he could, in case he never got to make another one.

I'm aware, but I'm not fully educated on the difference between the two.

It's like alien dogs — the creature is not a dog per se, it's not a canine, but you call it a dog (as a writer) so the reader understands it serves the same role, socially. I think there are a lot of colloquial terms like "dog" that get reused in science fiction where it's not that thing, but it's like that thing and that's what people understand.

So you can explain why WINE is not an emulator (that's actually what WINE stands for) but at the end of the day, it's a program that lets you run programs designed for another machine or operating system. It accomplishes the same goal for the end user as an emulator, even if it does so a little differently. I guess it's like Boomers calling Xbox and PlayStation "Nintendo." They're technically wrong, but they just see video games and go with the name they know.

All fair.

To be clear, Apple's compatibility layer is mostly inaccessible to the user. Even with the latest macOS, so you should have GPTK (Game Porting Tool Kit), you can't just run a Windows game. You have to do some work... or use something like Whisky. And the guy who made Whisky stopped working on it so people could pay subscription fees to CrossOver (which is not a bad product; in fact, it funnels money into WINE which helps everyone). So in theory with CrossOver your CAD software may work... or may not... but it sounds like it wouldn't be worth it for you to try.

But wait — just out of curiosity, how upgradeable is a ThinkPad? Typically the motherboard limits what you can do (e.g. if it's an AMD system, an AM4 means you can use most of the newest stuff, but there's some stuff locked behind AM5 you won't be able to touch, but it's the same on the Intel side as well). So, just curious how far you can actually take a $300 used ThinkPad. I used to build, so it's just that, a curiosity.

Of those, by name? Ultra Violet.

When I would play Saints Row, that one looks closest to the colour I'd pick for all the cars and clothes. (If you're unfamiliar with the series, it's a gang-themed action RPG similar to GTA and made to compete with it when it was exclusive to PlayStation; the original Saints Row was Xbox exclusive, though the rest have been on all platforms. The Third Street Saints gang uses the colour purple primarily, likely because no major gang does.)

I looked at all the choices and jumped on one that looked interesting to me.

I kinda wanted to avoid the "big" ones for various reasons (too many cooks in the kitchen, maybe?). I saw db0 and thought, these guys look interesting. I don't agree with everything they're about, but I like what they're about in general. There's one thing I disagree with them on, for a somewhat personal reason, but I also respect their point of view on it, so it's no hard feelings on my part. I also try to avoid the issue so as to not go against my instance, since they have the right to show me the door.

I don't know what neopronouns are, but I agree with what they said. I agree with the commenter who said they/them is the default until corrected or you see it in their user flair.

Software compatibility on the Mac is fine, unless you mean emulating Windows for gaming like the Steam Deck does so well. In that case, I've gotten Fallout 4 to work with Whisky, but that's not a huge accomplishment. I have an M2 Pro Mac mini from 2023 and Fallout 4 came out in 2015. It's not a great platform for gaming in any case. I play Blue Prince on it and that looks good. Stray, too. Those are newer games, but not particularly demanding. They look okay, but the framerate isn't good. Xbox (Series X) is a better platform for both.

I'm not discounting or disregarding the Deck, I just haven't got one so I cannot say what it can or can't do. I've only heard good things about it. I have a friend who may be trying to unload one, I just can't spare the cash right now and I'm not that interested in owning one. And I think he does have the most expensive version. And I think he's upgraded the SSD in it. So sure, it would be a good deal and he'd make a good deal for a friend, I just don't really have the room for it. Still, it is tempting.

I started with Nintendo 64 (between these two — I also had Pong, the 2600, the NES, and the Super NES) but I didn't like what Nintendo was doing with its 3D. It was all backwards and you couldn't change it, and the graphics looked like smeared diarrhea. And yes, I had Ocarina of Time. I also had GoldenEye, and kept thinking "this would be a great game if I could play with keyboard/mouse."

Gave it to my younger brother and bought a PlayStation. Wish I'd gone PS3 over 360 and PS4 over XB1, but I was married then and my wife wanted Xbox because she knew people on Xbox, who she proceeded to never play with online, thus defeating the purpose. Series X and GamePass, especially with All Access, was a better deal (when it was available) than PS5, but I'm not sure, in the long run, it's the better console. So yeah, shoulda stuck with PlayStation.

Edit: I got a PS3 later. I like it more than the 360, which is its generation, and the XB1, which is PS4 gen. Still haven't gotten a PS4 or PS5.

This is gonna be on Switch 1 as well? I would advise not buying it there, for the same reason I don't recommend The Outer Worlds. Well, The Outer Worlds looks and runs like trash on Switch, but it looked great on PC and Xbox.

Switch 2 is probably much more capable.

Fans of The Outer Worlds (and Bloodstained) on Switch will say "well it's the only way I can play it on mobile" and I guess that's a fair point, but it's still not a great experience.

I think the real question is, is this what Microsoft executives use internally? If they are using Windows 11, are they using the AI agent? Or do they get to opt out of it? Or are they just using Macs?