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Latest Comments by elmapul
pureya gives you a mini-game that changes every 10 seconds
30 Mar 2021 at 4:59 pm UTC

wario-ware esque game.
not complaining, i just think its an nice comparission that you could have used in the article

Terraria for Google Stadia is surprisingly back on and going through certification
28 Feb 2021 at 3:10 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: marcus
Quoting: elmapuli know that most people will not care on that aspect so they have no reason to rely on google, but think for an moment: how many of those discontinued google products were paid?
Google Music was paid.
you still can acess your musics, they just rebranded the service as youtube something.

Terraria for Google Stadia is surprisingly back on and going through certification
28 Feb 2021 at 3:09 am UTC

Quoting: Cyril
Quoting: elmapuli know that most people will not care on that aspect so they have no reason to rely on google, but think for an moment: how many of those discontinued google products were paid?
Are you trying to say that it's not a big deal because it was free (of money)?
Because dude, all of that services (same as Facebook...) aren't free, you pay/paid with your data, don't forget their income is mostly ads...
I prefer to lose money than give away my data to any corporations, governments etc.
no, the reason why google discontinued those services was because the business model was to sell ads, but the lower user base means that puting ads on it were not as profitable as to put on facebook and collecting data on it werent any better due to the lack of users.
google discontinued those services because it was an waste of money of their investors to host an service that lose money and to advertisers to announce where no one would see or to data brokers to pay for such useless data.
they were thinking in their customers, the issue is that we werent their customers to begin with.

as they say: "if the service is free, you are the product being sold"
the main difference with stadia is that we are the ones paying something, we are the customers.

Terraria for Google Stadia is surprisingly back on and going through certification
27 Feb 2021 at 4:09 am UTC

Quoting: no_information_here
Quoting: elmapuli cant wait to see the stadia haters report this... oh wait, they wont, they pretend that stadia dont exists when its a good news, and pretend "its dead with this final nail in the cofin" when its bad news.

stadia has "died" more times than jesus and kuririn at this ṕoint
Well, enjoy your stadia while it lasts:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/report-stadia-undershot-to-the-tune-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users/ [External Link]

I am not a 'hater' - I am someone who used (past tense) a lot of different google services over several decades and actually have a working memory, and don't have stockholm syndrome.

The first comment on the Ars Technica article said it succinctly:

It's almost like if you cancel enough consumer-facing projects, consumers won't want to take a chance on your new projects.
yeah i got burned out by then a few times, orkut, googleplus, wave...
stadia isnt even avaliable on my country yet, so i cant decide if i gonna give it a try or not, but i care about being able to play on linux and more people being able to try linux or port their engines (and maybe even games) to linux, so i do care about its future.

i know that most people will not care on that aspect so they have no reason to rely on google, but think for an moment: how many of those discontinued google products were paid?

Terraria for Google Stadia is surprisingly back on and going through certification
27 Feb 2021 at 12:00 am UTC Likes: 1

i cant wait to see the stadia haters report this... oh wait, they wont, they pretend that stadia dont exists when its a good news, and pretend "its dead with this final nail in the cofin" when its bad news.

stadia has "died" more times than jesus and kuririn at this ṕoint

RetroArch announce the Open Hardware project, plus a new fantasy console core
26 Feb 2021 at 11:58 pm UTC

Quoting: Chuckaluphagus
Quoting: elmapul
Quoting: ageresThe "SDK" for LowRes NX is available on AUR while the core is not yet. You can use lowres-nx to load and play .nx files. I wonder why they decided to use BASIC-like style with bunch of GOTOs instead of something that Dijkstra would have approved.
i guess some of those old games were made in basic, so this move will make old developers confortable and new ones more familiarized on how things used to be
A lot of the commercial games from the early boom in home computers were programmed in BASIC. The most notable that come to mind are Ultima 1 and 2. I'm willing to bet that a BASIC-like language would especially appeal to the generation that was exposed to BASIC as children, and now want to tinker with their children.
i was refering to console games, i know it was used on pc, but i didnt thought much about it, since were talking about an console...
i'm not sure if the consoles were strong enough to run games made with it

RetroArch announce the Open Hardware project, plus a new fantasy console core
26 Feb 2021 at 2:02 am UTC

Quoting: ageresThe "SDK" for LowRes NX is available on AUR while the core is not yet. You can use lowres-nx to load and play .nx files. I wonder why they decided to use BASIC-like style with bunch of GOTOs instead of something that Dijkstra would have approved.
i guess some of those old games were made in basic, so this move will make old developers confortable and new ones more familiarized on how things used to be

Valve & Netflix teamed up for a Dota anime series
19 Feb 2021 at 8:54 am UTC

not really an anime, like avatar or even castlevania, this show borrow the anime asthetic and maybe is done by an japanese studio, but that dont means its an "anime".
i know that for the japaneses this word refer to any animation, not only those made on japan, but i dont think this will have much of an appeal to the japanese market or the internation otaku audience, only for those who know nothing about anime except for a few popular shows (naruto and whatever the cable tv aired).

now i'm not saying that this will be an shit show...
but i have 0 interest in seeing it, and after seeing the trailer, my interest raised to -1 .

i dont play dota, but that is not the main issue.

Metro Exodus still due on Linux this year, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition announced
19 Feb 2021 at 6:48 am UTC Likes: 1

wait, in house porting? or they are doing an partnership with feral/others?

Stadia to see more than 100 games through 2021
14 Feb 2021 at 5:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestThe internet: Stadia is dead, it will be in the Google graveyard in a few months

Google: We're gonna give you 100+ games this year

The internet: *crickets*

The amount of reactionary doom mongering and told you sos in the past 2 weeks compared with the silence from the same people now speaks volumes. They are little more than hate for clicks peddlers
its funny that they say that stadia is dead multiple times, i wonder how many times they can say that before people start realizing its make no sense to say its dead now, since it supposed to be dead already in the past few years and yet , its not...

anyway, its going to be quite troublesome to fight against this discourse, but if google can, then no one would be able to stop cloud gaming in the future, wich is an bigger problem than windows imho.