As someone with fond memories of PSX snowboarding games, HyperYuki seems like it could be interesting.

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Interestingly, the patent makes explicit mention of 'motion of throwing ball toward front/enemy character'. I wonder if that makes any difference as to which situations the patent is applicable to. Another point of note is that the sub-character will battle the enemy character when said enemy gets close to the player character even if the sub-character hasn't appeared on the field. A third note is that the sub-character can automatically engage enemies in a certain radius so if the player sends the sub-character into a group of enemies the sub-character will battle them one after another until either being victorious over all of them or until losing a battle. Considering Palworld launched in 2024 and this patent was filed in 2022, I wonder if it was filed as a reaction to whatever material was available in the Palworld announcement of 2021.

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Some thoughts...

- Snaps: No thanks, I don't want to receive packages from a proprietary source.
- No Fcitx: Sorry, but there are more native Chinese speakers than native English speakers, having an IME is not an excessive luxury (and please, don't use Ibus, that garbage is horrible).
- Random CLI utilities like Duf, Mcfly: Frankly, quite pointless.
- Nano: Vim is already selected and is just better, no point in adding nano.

But most importantly: an immutable OS based on Arch? Absolutely lovely, if the KDE devs could just reach out to the Arkane Linux team to collaborate it could be an absolute game changer.

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Some thoughts:

1. The proper way to do age verification is for the government of a nation to provide a service which other parties can use to verify that a person is old enough to access said content (so not 'is this person at least 18', but 'is this person old enough that they are allowed to access this type of content').

2. If they do Age Verification for sexuality-related content then it should also be done for violence-related content (I wouldn't consider teen pregnancies to be worse than school shootings, for example).

3. Protecting children is the job of the child's guardian(s), the government should only step in when the guardian(s) can't/won't do a decent job of it and in that case the solution is not to put some massive overreach in place but to transfer guardianship to someone who is actually capable of raising the child properly.

4. Trying to do AV only in specific regions is stupid because people can always bypass it using a VPN.

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I get why using licensed tracks and cars is popular, but that just means the game will no longer be available for sale when the license runs out (think of Project Cars 2, for example).

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Fans of the original may be disappointed there's no Fishmalk option, but I'm far more disappointed that we can't play as Nosferatu. While the 'can't get seen or you'll break Masquerade' system in the original was very underdeveloped, it was an interesting idea which I would've liked to see built out further.

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IMO q4wine is still the goat. It's my favourite alternative to just using the CLI.

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I just hope they don't shove all that garbage into my library like they did with that one charity bundle for Gaza. Having my library ruined like that really soured my day.

EDIT: Got the $60 bundle and they do it like the old bundles where all the content is hidden until you download it, so nothing to worry about for people who like keeping their library organised.

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As much antipathy as I have for the DS dev, I will say that users must learn to file issues with packages with the provider of the package. Only file an issue upstream if you've built the package from source.

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it's not about how the game plays that has Sony's knickers in a twist, it's their assertion that if an average gamer was shown screenshots of both games they may be unable to tell them apart.

Yeah, and I'm saying that's bullshit. If Sony wins on those merits then we can no longer have games set in the modern U.S.A., because they would look to much like GTA. We would no longer have games set in WW2, because they would look too much like Medal of Honour. It's a bullshit lawsuit and the judge should just throw it out due to lack of merit.

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