Plot twist: it’s actually Yuzu, running on the Steam Deck

My company tracks my work performance by ... well, the issues I fix, the code reviews I perform, whether I’m hitting my deadlines for new features, etc. Y’know, by tracking the actual work. I haven’t once been questioned about my office hours, and our VPN is accessible using off the shelf software so I’m pretty sure I…

Don’t worry, the frog of shame has them covered:

A lot of the controversy around mods for previous Bethesda games was paid mods that included freely shared (but not freely licensed) content from other mods. That, obviously, is a morally dubious circumstance, and I think there’s some animosity in the community regarding payments in general as a result.

The reason is almost certainly a practical one: Red is **Mario’s** interface color, and they usually like to have a single obvious color for each playable character in these games so players can reliably tell themselves apart in the HUD and menus and such.

I’m cautiously optimistic for this, as the bridge requirement suggests these things might be able to be rigged to work offline without a cloud connection. For me, “security” and “access to the internet” don’t go in the same sentence when it comes to smart devices, but the Hue series has a pretty good track record with…

Hell, even as a gay man, my guy friends are notably off limits. It’s not rocket science; unless you out yourself to me and make very clear advances, it’s platonic. That’s the default and it’s absolutely okay XD

I continue to be irritated that non-disparagement clauses are a thing. They’re becoming increasingly common in employment contracts. Seems like basic first amendment protections ought to apply?

If, upon further examination, you find that your rocks are somewhat lacking, may I recommend the delightful mod Schlongs of Skyrim.

(For reasons that will rapidly become apparent, I’ll refrain from any screenshots. Simply picture the Kotaku Fish in your mind’s eye.)

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The best part about this hot take is that Yona actually gets Sidon and Link’s relationship, and is entirely supportive of the duo. She practically has to physically drag Sidon away from his noble self-sacrifice and kick him out the door to go on a proper adventure, away from her, with the Hylian. Then after all that…

Even as an adult, sites which ask for my ID on the whole mostly get their tab closed. I’m not sure how else you’re supposed to do age verification without getting real personal about the data you collect from an individual, and that makes me deeply uncomfortable. The ability to participate somewhat anonymously kept me…

The unfortunate proliferation of the gay stereotype has done a fantastic job of hiding the rest of us that appear outwardly normal. I usually pass as “straight” without even trying, and at work frequently get surprised remarks once I talk about my significant other with unexpected pronouns. Always fun :)

I’m at a point in my life where I’d be significantly more interested in this franchise if there were some way to turn the fatalities off entirely. It’s got this great campy 90s flick vibe and some good humor and action scenes sprinkled throughout... and then occasionally we have to watch someone have their face ripped…

I learned that I was gay just about the second puberty hit. I learned that it was not acceptable when the other kids introduced me to “queer” as a derogatory term, which would have been around oh, early 2000s or so. Thankfully that’s not as much of a problem these days, but yeah, there was no media involvement here.…

I’m right there with most of Nintendo’s argument if it were, say, against Yuzu. But Dolphin primarily allows users to play games that Nintendo is no longer making available for sale. Whose creativity are we protecting, exactly, when these artists are no longer able to be paid for these works in any meaningful sense?

Maybe I’ve had my head stuck in the sand, but this is my first time hearing that “Karen” was exclusive to a particular race. When working retail, we used it to refer to especially entitled customers, the ones that would call the manager over absurd, trivial matters and waste everyone’s time. Has it gained a more…

Oh my god.

Gamecube and Wii both encode the disks backwards from a standard DVD, among other physical incompatibilities. A tiny handful of PC DVD drives can be coaxed into reading them, but for the general public, it is far simpler to run CleanRip on your Wii and make a dump that way. It’s pretty easy, I’ve done my whole…

... holy crap. Has TV always been this expensive? I don’t think I’ve ever paid for Cable service so I don’t have a good frame of reference. I spend my free time working on hobbies, and don’t particularly want to fill it with television.