Can anyone explain the rationale behind the no tipping policy? I’ve seen this at a bunch of different places and it makes me really annoyed at the management of the place. Having worked in retail, and in the food industry, I fully appreciate the level of crap those workers have to take on a decent basis, so when I…

Ignoring any puzzle elements, I’m strongly reminded of the Viruses from the Megaman Battle Network series. Almost all of those words are chip types you can obtain from fighting viruses, and the abbreviations are in line with the series as well. But a Virus isn’t an animal... I don’t know if that’s helpful.

This can be reduced somewhat on current models, but usually not eliminated entirely. Check your TV’s menu options for a special low-latency “Gaming” mode, and disable all the picture enhancements (upscaling, motion correction, even the Sharpness filter) to reduce the delay as much as possible. That should help, maybe…

Right, you’re absolutely correct. The timing is really hard to get nailed down in a general sense, such that it’ll work correctlty for all games. Unless your emulator is extremely hardware accurate (hard to do without sacrificing performance), it’s pretty much going to have weird timing bugs that require workarounds…

That... shouldn’t necessarily be the case with a good emulator. It’s very possible to recreate the timing of the original hardware well enough to have identical performance, especially when you’re working with a known game.

Funny, I ran into this issue just this week, as I was putting the finishing touches on a port of my NES emulator to the browser. I worked around it by adding a click event to the body of the whole page. Since the user needs to click on the the page once to play anyway (otherwise they get no button input), I can simply…

Honestly, they are testing the waters with the NES games on a subscription, and that’s probably what they should run with. Having written two old school emulators now (NES and Gameboy), I can appreciate that the technical side of virtual console is complicated and takes a ton of work to get right. If they’re not…

The good news, if you do decide to return, is that the task breaks itself up quite nicely. Other than the hint art, most of the moons are quite easy to come by, even the newer “moon rock” ones. I found that I could return to the game after the credits, pick a world, and just grab as much as I could, stopping when the…

If they would simply update the Switch’s eShop to use the background music from the Wii shop, and make no other changes whatsoever, I would be perfectly happy and content.

The harsh reality here is that children of privileged parents tend to do better on academic scores than children from the poorer communities, often due to drastically different stress levels and support from their parents. I believe that most kids, given actually equal opportunity to perform in the same activities,…

It’s a typo. is -> into

I mean, they all know what that means. If someone went out, they’re gone. There’s no surviving that.

“I know the trays are usually rectangular, but I wanted to use the lathe tool”

Can we talk about how perfect that lead shot’s arcade is? I don’t know how Taco Time is played, but I *need* to find a roll of quarters and find out.

What’s happening in that Bowling minigame is far more tame. The developers aren’t really intentionally rendering anything in the void. Instead, they’re rendering the scoreboard first, copying the resulting texture somewhere, and then not bothering to clear the framebuffer. There’s no need, as the bowling lane geometry…

How wonderful for Geguri that she was able to make it into the Leagues! I think she is beautiful just the way that she is, and hope she can overcome her anxiety to be in the spotlight and show us all what a real gamer can do. :) There is more to beauty than looks, and she’s got it where it really counts.

Weirdly, that’s not actually his goal, established way back in the first series. Gary Oak is trying to increase his capture count, while Ash is perfectly content to simply *scan* everything he encounters. I remember Prof. Oak complimenting both of them on their differing approaches to the tasks, as Ash ended up with a…

Now you’re playing with POWDER!

Per canon, the babies were delivered by Stork in Yoshi’s Island, and Luigi actually arrived first, so I’m not sure how they’re establishing Luigi as the younger one with that sort of birth mechanic in play. Maybe Mario’s “age” began when the stork dropped him? I think it’s best to just roll with whatever Nintendo…

Agreed, I think Riot has one of the better systems out there. Their loot boxes feel like a nice little bonus thrown my way every level or so, and gives me neat stuff to shoot for with the missions. (Boxes are often a mission reward.) Beyond that, if I’m going to plunk down real money, the loot boxes aren’t a cheaper…