It’s fine Vanillaware, we’ll keep pirating and emulating your games and play them anyway.

Doing the work, brother. Thank you.

The only thing I can think of is that they were refocusing their games division around the PS4 to reclaim their space in the home console area after the disaster that the PS3 was initially taking advantage of the initial failure of the Xbox One.

PS Vita and their owners were just a collateral Sony was absolutely willing to sacrifice.

Just feel like I should at least add two more things here:

1. Storing information do their customers as plaintext data, then getting hacked and losing all that information (infamous PSN hack);

2. Releasing a portable console that cost between 250 and 300€, promising support for it then 2 years in, give up on it, never officially tell customers, but have one of your higher execs tell the press said console is a great “accessory” for the PS4.

This is why I don’t personally buy Sony hardware.

And remember, at any moment can delete any content you paid for and it’ll be gone forever. These two things (the one you mentioned and mine) are why I always say: “Fuck Bungie”.

While I’m absolutely not vocal about it as you are, I’d say almost 100% of what you feel is shared by myself too. I even bought two pockets (one for me and one for someone else) and we’ve been amazingly disappointed at the progress of updates on it. Yes they created the OpenFPGA thing, but that was obviously to not get left behind by new emerging platforms like the MisterFPGA and (to a less extent) the Steam Deck.

And will all things on the Internet, they developed a fan base that is mostly pretty defensive about them because they believe if Analogue died tomorrow, all of a sudden this type of project would stop existing (I feel anyhow).

I started looking differently at Analogue after mGBA’s developer endrift told their story about their experience with them (worth a read)

Part of me is very interest in adding this to my retro setup.

The other part of me knows that I bought the Analogue Pocket and the updates and communication from Analogue are really bad (despite all the device can do) which honestly is a no-no when you pay as much as you do for their stuff

It's been down a lot for me lately. I basically only use it as a nextcloud pointer for large file uploads since cloudflare free has a 100MB limit and the Nextcloud desktop app lacks chunk-uploads. Which are ironically only present in the iOS client.

I believe I read Microsoft was working on something similar but it was definitely for mobile games. So I think that's the idea. Not 100% sure tho

Is this year's Tensor an actual in-house chip or just another rebranded shitty Exynos?

Hats off to Samsung tho, kneecapping the competition 😂

As a Portuguese, I'm quite proud of this tho I think we can still do better (or at least find a way to not get price gauged).

I was in a week-long vacation in the island of Madeira recently and was shocked by how many solar and wind farms they had, no to mention the energy generated by the sea around it. It was astonishing and at least restored my faith in my countrymen, just a bit.

I feel like the key word here is resignation. Platinum has changed from its early days and so has the quality of its output (Babylon’s Fall; Astral Chain, which I loved everything about but the gameplay). It is possible that because of the capital injection/investment by Tencent, Kamiya doesn’t have the same creative freedom/pull to make the games he wants anymore.

Unless he speaks up we will never know, and I doubt he will. Can’t wait to see what’s next for him tho.

I would honestly rather have FES than Portable, but considering they are starting from scratch there is absolutely no reason they couldn’t have gotten the FES content, shove in the FemMC option and do it.

…unless the endgame is DLC, of course.

I find this fascinating, in a non-ironic way. Thank you very much OP!

Unfortunately not ALL apps. Certain apps have checks in place to detect if they were installed from the Play Store or not, and if they don’t, they won’t start and ask you to reinstall. I have to be careful ful which apps I update through Aurora.

It’s absolute horseshit and goes against the entire open ecosystem thing but what can we do.

That being said with how ad ridden the Play Store is, I’m glad I never have to open it unless it’s to open one of those stupid apps.

I mean if he indeed is a cyborg, he could actually fall under the umbrella of tech for sure. We just need proof!

My point is they shouldn’t be the ones doing the auditing (or at least ordering it), it should be an outside source doing it (in this case, I guess a government entity? Or something independent from LMG anyhow).

I’ll gladly admit to being a cynic, but that’s because I’ve worked in similar work environments, quit for very similar reasons and saw nothing being done too. So it’s a sore spot for me too. I can easily see my own bias in this situation.

In any case, we’ll have to wait and see how it pans out. Hopefully for the best is what matters in the end.

That’s also very true, absolutely not gonna disagree there.

In any case, all we can do is speculate, we will see the end result when it eventually comes out. As long as this brings positive change to LMG as a whole, that’ll be good.

I know it won’t matter overall, but I won’t see the change since I’ve unsubbed to everything LMG related myself (a long time coming, honestly) but I really do wish them all the best.

My point is that when you are the one ordering an investigation on yourself, usualyl the results are bound to be highly skewed towards what you want.

I’ve seen my government recently do this in a pretty big corruption case that would have made heads roll, as well as a couple other private entities I can think of who have hired “outside investigators” to investigate themselves only to go like what I said.

I’m obviously open to being proven wrong in this case, but the track record of such things isn’t very positive.

Sorry I wasn’t very clear, I just didn’t want to make my comment too big.

The end result will likely be something like: “We have investigated ourselves and found that we are blameless of any wrongdoing”. Which is usually how these things end up.

Also, weird to not see them saying they’ll reach out to Madison to get the story from her, but I guess that might be one of those obvious things so not mentioned. I hope.