I love my steam deck but there’s enough games from my library that won’t run at all or only run after some manual trickery in desktop mode.

Heh.

Oh wow, a Simpsons fact I didn’t know, yet! Thanks. All I knew was that Maude died in the season where the writing started to suck.

There’s a paragraph in the German constitution that lists all words that count as insults. German school kids have to recite the constitution once per week in school and when that paragraph comes everyone giggles.

/s I think there probably is some list of insults, though.

I love bashing AI art but in AI art it’s usually the details that you spot at second glance that makes it fall apart. The Mega Man cover is just fundamentally messed up to a degree where even AI art is miles ahead.

Cracka lackin’ by Jen Mackin.

Oh wow. I never noticed this. Now I have to redraw the whole comic for the next repost 😭

Mario if he was a camel.

Good examples. In general the earlier 3D games aged particularly poorly. Not only graphically but also when it comes to controls. I think around 2000 things get better, though.

I bought MDK two years after release for 10€ because the screenshots on the box looked pretty but I was super disappointed once I saw it in motion on my PC… Back in these days game graphics got better so quick, that a (originally super pretty) two year old game looked bad on my PC.

Edit: I wish that GIF would play without clicking it (Jerboa). 🤔

Edit 2: Plays fine in Sync at least…

True. However back when these games were state of the art, you somehow were able to imagine the graphics to be better than what was actually on screen. At least that’s how it felt to me (played my first games in the early 90s).

Yeah, that botheres me, too. Also when a game is labeled to have “psx graphics” and it just means that they use low res textures without filtering but at the same time it has real time shadows, requires 4GB VRAM and uses bunch of other modern techniques.

😇

I watched Ren and Stimpy daily as a kid. 🥰

The third one eluded me for some time, too. I accidentally caught it while flipping channels some months ago. Don’t ask me what it was about, I already forgot everything. But there was a cute little bird in it.

Sounding. Hehe.