Pxtl

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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yup. The game is pretty overrated, imho, but its aesthetic was amazing. No lighting system, everything was hand-shaded with textures that really got the Megaman look. One of a kind style.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 80 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Imho the problem with the 3D-era pokemon games isn't that they look low-fi, it's that they look low-fi in a boring way. Like they were built from asset-store content from 15 years ago.

If ever there was a game that could've gotten away with some weird theme like voxel-art or heavy use of billboarded sprites, it's pokemon. Like, imagine a pokemon game with pixelated hand-animated textures like in Megaman Legends. That would work.

Megaman Legends showing an expressive face texture

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

The end of an era. Now I'm nostalgic over their awful '90s games like Shogo. Was also such a shame that AvsP2 never got re-released because it was permanently trapped in rights hell.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

No, it's complaining about how some games are so swingy that even with skill-based matchmaking the game always seems to be a landslide in one direction or the other.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

Overwatch is the worst for this.

Game one: We absolutely steamroll and as tank I do more than both DPS players put together. Yay.

Game two: We get our asses kicked and some Ana who doesn't know to switch or group up when they're getting dived spends the whole endgame screaming how awful our tank is.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Whoever decided it was okay to hold electronics together with glue instead of screws needs to go The Hague.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

refused to give them a reason to vote for them

If stopping fascism isn't enough of a reason for you to vote Dems, that's a you problem and not a them problem.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Fuel? I'm honestly surprised two-wheelers in India haven't been completely been overtaken by electrics, at least outside of the modern traffic infrastructure of Mumbai. I've only been there a few times but so much of what I saw (mostly in Thiruvananthapuram) was urban design where the high speed and power of a motorbike wouldn't be very useful (at least as a solo rider not carrying a heavy load like a passenger or anything) - slow, cramped, chaotic traffic on dusty zig-zagging roads.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 months ago

It's not as funny when stripped from the context that the comic was drawn 5 years ago.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is !ADHD@lemmy.world, I kind of figured people would join this sub after a diagnosis.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fair point, but that means the ban should be coming from Department of Commerce, not the DoD.

Don't try to come up with bullshit excuses about espionage.

"We're banning these private-business Chinese websites because China bans our private-business websites and that's anti-competitive".

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

for everybody reading this who haven't tried them already:

The meds help a lot. Stop overthinking it and just get the meds.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Pxtl@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

So lemmiverse, my https://pxtl.ca domain has officially been booted off of Google Domains (welcome to the Google graveyard, Google Domains) and now has been moved into Squarespace, which is expensive.

Anybody recommend a good cheap .ca TLD domain host? One with a decent API for dynamic DNS so I can keep my home subdomain? I have a couple of pi4 servers in the house that could be tasked with pinging an API endpoint to notify the domain host of my IP.

thanks in advance.

edit: in the end I went with CanSpace as registrar, and I'm using CloudFlare to actually run the nameservers.

The transfer was kind of a PITA because since the domain transferred from Google to Squarespace to Canspace to then being hosted on CF's nameservers (but still on Canspace) the DNSSEC meant that CF couldn't actually get it connected until like 48 hours later. Was quite worried that I'd screwed up somewhere.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/14382889

(note, Title copied from Global's Twitter post on the article, which more clearly explains the concern, unlike the Headline).

 

(note, Title copied from Global's Twitter post on the article, which more clearly explains the concern, unlike the Headline).

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