HeyListenWatchOut

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•[Deleted]English
    51·
    21 days ago
    1. Cook at home and eat healthy
    2. Sleep enough hours every night
    3. Cultivate and maintain healthy non-familial relationships
    4. spend meaningful amounts of quality time with family
    5. Work at a full-time job 40+ hrs a week
    6. Play video games or engage in other hobbies

    Choose 3

    You cannot effectively do the rest.

    I do 4, 5, & 6.

    I slept 3 hours last night and have an embarrassing number of Uber Eats deliveries each month… but on the bright side I count the video game time sometimes as “cultivating healthy relationships” when I can get ahold of my fellow gaming dads who don’t go to bed until after 1am… 🫩🥱

  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Google's WebPEnglish
    26·
    1 month ago

    I’ve mentioned this topic in regards to animated images, but don’t see as big a reason to push for static formats due to the overall relatively limited benefits other than wider gamut and marginally smaller file size (percentage wise they are significant, but 2KB vs 200KB is paltry on even a terrible connection in the 2000s).

    What I really wish is that we could get more browsers, sites, and apps to universally support more modern formats to replace the overly bloated terribly performing and never correctly pronounced animated formats like GIF with something else like AVIF, webm, webp (this was a roughly ~60MB GIF, and becomes a 1MB WEBP with better performance), or even something like APNG…

    Besides wider gamut, and better performance, the sizes are actually significant on all but the fastest connections and save sites on both storage and bandwidth at significant scale compared to the mere KB of change that a static modern asset has.

    This WEBP is only 800KB but only shows up on some server instances since not every Lemmy host supports embedding them :

  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
    18·
    2 months ago

    Favorite is not the right word.

    I think there are different Ghibli movies for different questions.

    Which is the most rewatched in my home? Probably Porco Rosso since it’s light-hearted and easy to consume. Miyazaki’s Magnum Opus? Mononoke or Nausicaa. Best to watch with your kids? Totoro, Kiki, and Ponyo. Most emotionally impactful? Grave of the Fireflies.

    “Favorite” though? No idea. Depends on how I’m feeling.

  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Steam does what Nintendoes and Nintendon'tEnglish
    242·
    3 months ago

    Let’s be honest : the love is from one single thing - Nintendo’s game design.

    Shigeru Miyamoto, and all the other major design leads at Nintendo like Masahiro Sakurai have been at this singular company for most of if not their ENTIRE careers and have done nothing but make video games for 40+ years now.

    The game industry at large is riddled these days with 20-somethings and interns who’ve never shipped a game, or who are in survival mode and trying to just keep their heads above water employment-wise.

    Many older game devs get burned out and change industry, or quit after a decade or so, and even the ones that stay never stick with the same company because so many cut staff after any game ships… except Nintendo and maybe a couple of other companies out there.

    And it SHOWS. Nintendo’s game designers - like a 60 year old master carpenter or woodworker or a dwarven master blacksmith - have honed the artisanal craft of game design to a level of mastery otherwise unseen.

    Yes Nintendo sucks at pretty much everything else not related directly to game design, but there’s a reason everyone tried to make their open worlds more like Breath of the Wild, or why Astro Bot seems to share so many platforming similarities with masterful 3D Nintendo platformers like Mario Odyssey, and why so many companies tried to copy Wii Sports at the height of its popularity.

    Even games like Smash Bros have no comparable equal. Yes Sony did their own melee game featuring their IP, but to even try to compare the 2 games is a joke.

    Outside of their masterful gameplay design… Nintendo IP is on the same level as Disney. Everyone else isn’t even Warner Bros. Animation Studios. They’re Hanna-Barbera.

    It sucks that Nintendo is being greedy, but that Donkey Kong game DOES look fun and charming as hell and that Mario Kart game is something everyone will still go bonkers for.

  • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Steam does what Nintendoes and Nintendon'tEnglish
    45·
    3 months ago

    Everyone knows what Steam does better, but there are a few things I wish they’d improve :

    • more granular touch display
    • higher resolution screen + larger higher res touch pad surfaces
    • TMR sticks
    • a REAL dock with simpler connection of some kind that doesn’t require a weird USB-C connected cable dangling off the top (but still would support 3rd party docks with that USB-C port)
    • better vibration motors
    • pressure sensitive face buttons (this hasn’t been done standard since the PS2 era, but would open up the possibility of PROPER PS2 emulation for games like MGS2 and MGS3, which STILL hasn’t been done right thanks to the disappearance of pressure sensitive face buttons)
    • hot-swappable batteries that can be charged in the Deck or externally if needed
    • haptic triggers
    • NFC
    • built-in microphone array to allow voice chat + isolation
    • built-in simple web cam / IR sensor array for face tracking / video chat / streamer setup
    • advanced optional stylus with pressure sensitivity / pointer function similar to a wii-mote that can be stored / recharged on top magnetically / wirelessly