It's a new show directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, known for directing Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo.

Would love for you to describe exactly how it’s more complicated.

"More" is relative, ofc, so YMMV on whether you agree with me or not on this.

But the problem with pass key is that it has all of the downsides of 2FA still -- you need to use a mobile device such as a cell phone, that cell phone must be connected to the internet and you often can't register a single account to multiple devices (as in, there's only ever 1 device that has passkey authorization.)

This isn't an issue with ssh keys, which is a superior design despite it not being native to the web browsing experience. SSH keys can be added or removed to an account for any number of devices as long as you have some kind of login access. You can generally use SSH keys on any device regardless of network connection. There's no security flaws to SSH keys because the public key is all that is held by 3rd parties, and it's up to the user in question to ensure they keep good control over their keys.

Keys can be assigned to a password and don't require you to use biometrics as the only authentication system.

I feel like there's probably more here, but all of this adds up to a more complicated experience IMO. But again, it's all relative. If you only ever use password + 2fa, I will give them that it's simpler than this (even though, from the backend side of things, it's MUCH more complicated from what I hear.)

Difficulty curves are exceptionally difficult in turn based RPG games.

If the game is too easy, you have essentially designed a game that requires the use of very few mechanics and thus lacks depth or replay-ability. Fewer options to choose from essentially makes an easier game to balance the difficulty, but you remove player agency. A good example of this (and I mean good) is Final Fantasy X which has player agency in the form of the sphere grid, but the system is mostly linear until the late game and the mechanics basically force you to use the right character against the correct enemy for the first 10 hours or so of the game. This is good design because it forces the player to engage with the systems that exist in the game but gives them very few options to shoot themselves in the foot.

Conversely, if you want a more open player-agency design, I would recommend looking at the balance difficulty of Final Fantasy V with some notable asterices. This game gives a lot of player agency in terms of team composition and stat allocation (in a round-about way) but this comes with the down side that most encounters have to be designed punishing to certain playstyles to encourage changing your party configuration. While grinding in most games feels like a chore, FFV actually adds achievable "goals" in either mastering jobs or unlocking more job abilities, which basically increases your character's overall flexibility. The downside is that bosses can be brick walls so a pseudo-fail state (as in, keep progression but respawn in the last inn) would be a nice patch that would make the game easier for new players. Additionally, systems like the 4 job fiesta would be nice as a "hard mode", if a game were ever to ape that design.

Both of those designs work for me, personally, as long as the game is upfront about it's design decision and that the difficulty scales appropriately to the number of choices I have (This means the game has to essentially become easier, because permutations dictate that my team composition might be radically different from someone else, or there need to be mechanics that help make "catching up" faster like FFV/Bravely Default)

The problem with PassKey is simply that they made it way more complicated.

Anyone who has worked with SSH keys knows how this should work, but instead companies like Google wanted to ensure they had control of the process so they proceeded to make it 50x more complicated and require a network connection. I mean, ok, but I'm not going to do that lmao.

It affects me very much, thank you.

Perhaps if you don't work with code, art and assets, you don't run into these issues. But with WFH as an option, and many people being contractors and not full employees, it would greatly benefit me to not have to pay an extra $100 for internet usage in a home of 4, for example.

I’m still very curious what consumer segment ends up picking this up. It’s $250, and I would assume you can just get an actually N64 for like $30, no?

Sure, but you're not factoring in all of the price factors that come associated with playing that on a new TV or complicated AV system. This comes with HDMI output built in, and will have scalers and other amenities for QoL usage in 2024. The sad truth is that it's actually pretty expensive to have an AV setup that is designed to handle old consoles, especially with how TVs have not properly supported lower-res content for a long time.

Fact of the matter is some of the best scalers with low latency that you can buy are nearly $2k US, and even the cheaper or more budget options are more expensive than the $250 price tag that this targets (the OSSC, for example). I wish this wasn't the case, but the Analogue 3D and equivalent reimplementations are actually super important for people who are still interested on playing the closest to "real hardware" in 2024.

Or the problem with tech billionaires selling "magic solutions" to problems that don't actually exist. Or how people are too gullible in the modern internet to understand when they're being sold snake oil in the form of "technological advancement" when it's actually just repackaged plagiarized material.

Absolutely. It would be a shame if AI didn't know that the common maple tree is actually placed in the family cannabaceae.

Somehow I fell into the routine, motivated by wanting to see communities grow on lemmy, and I’ve just kept going.

That's the spirit of the pre-2010s internet for you, the energy that made the sites we have today in the first place.

Good. I like transparency and this has always been the truth. And I'm glad Valve isn't doing much to fight against it.

I'm still impressed by the way wave race feels, not going to lie.

I'm not sure social media is good for anyone, but I understand that "for the kids" is really the only way people feel confident in regulating anything. But it's all very condescending when the real issue is that social media is causing society to become worse due to Skinner's Box style human impulses -- I do a thing, that gets me attention, so I'll keep doing it regardless of if it's right or wrong.

We shouldn't blame social media as a blanket villain, but simply request that all web services have transparent suggestion algorithms (preferably open source) and provide tax incentives for companies that help promote verified educational content over made up bullshit (as it's the only way to get companies to do the right thing, unfortunately)

I was expecting something juicy but the dossier is basically... Anything we all already know about JD Vance?

And he's still blocking it? Hmmm... Ok, well whatever. This is why you don't use ex dot com.

There's a shrek musical?

And there was this back and forth that dragged all the way into the general election, at which point the Admins finally decided to ban the sub.

My recollection is that they didn't ban the sub until after the election, like a year into his presidency, shortly after the Charlottesville protest. I might be wrong though, I wasn't really paying all that much attention to them.

Depends on the subreddit. Conservatives have made a conscious effort to take over moderation on various subreddits that represents individual cities often in blue states. Some have succeeded in that, others have failed.

Who grifts the griftmen?

I really hope they don't find a way to blame the linux community for this. Even if we hate kernel level anti cheat, I think most of us were happy with the refund from Valve lol

He's like "Please guys, can we stop with the Uncle Ruckus stuff?"

Unaware that it was the only logical conclusion for their party in the current direction they're headed.

I mean, I don't think we need to worry about people getting shot during an unannounced in home break in.

We need to worry about people being shot randomly in the street for no reason, or guns being in the hands of people who are mentally deranged. Those are very different things imo.