not reading any currently, but I’ve just recently bought AI Somnium Files sequel and Root Double.
Root Double is particularly exciting because it’s directed by Takumi Nakazawa who co-wrote the Infinity series with Kotaro Uchikoshi. Takumi also is a scenario assistant for AI Somnium Files nirvana initiative.
I’m actually excited for this.
Not expecting much of the latest AAA games being ported over, but excited for older games, that are either broken when Mac abandoned 32-bit, or titles that could have been ported over but didn’t because Apple didn’t care much about gaming.
Also I wonder if this porting toolkit could help with the development of emulators. Citra had issues with Mac, and even now OpenEmu is having issue with the shaders.
why would developers spend time making a native port when this is free and It Just Works
Sadly it’s not. IIRC:
First, the main part of this toolkit is to create an automated translation from DirectX 12, including the metal shader equivalents. However since the instructions / shades automatically generated, they are highly inefficient. Thus, they perform sub par (low framerate, buggy), and require developers to polish them, optimize them according to the machines. But large part of the job is done for them, at least for testing.
Second, currently, in order to run those games, you need to download the exe file of the game, download dependencies, and run many commands manually from terminal, it’s not user friendly at all. Also, it requires user to buy the Windows version of the game in the first place, thus the need to download windows version of steam, etc, etc.
Chrono Cross is my favorite.
Dream of the Shore Near Another World makes me tearful every time I listen to it.
Yeah, totally expecting that. His aim of buying twitter, is to prop up a republican presidential candidate / authoritarians in other countries that can help him evade taxes and get more subsidies.
They were trying to disallow third party ads for streamers https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65834521.amp
Twitch tried to implode a few days ago. I’m hoping for YouTube, it’s too much of a monopoly.
Wait, this looks very nifty. But digital blood pressure monitor with air pump is quite cheap nowadays and very easy to get one.
Also this seems to be the extension of measuring heartbeat with camera + flashlight that was out there like 10 years ago (you measure it by placing your thumb over your phone’s camera). I wonder if eventually smartphone maker would just have it built in.