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thehellrocc , 8 months ago to gaming in Nintendo of America President On the Future of the Switch, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and More

Yeah, I agree with that. I was just trying to point out how Nintendo’s BC has never been as complete as it could be, for whatever reason it may be, but yeah, they’ve been pretty good at guaranteeing last-gen compatibility so far. Let’s see how it goes with whatever will succeed the Switch.

thehellrocc , 8 months ago to gaming in Nintendo of America President On the Future of the Switch, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and More

The two lines you mention do cut off at some points, though. The DS no longer had backwards compatibility with the GB and GBC, the DSi with the GBA, although the 3DS re-added GB and GBC, just digitally. The Wii U also doesn’t support GCN discs. All of these, however, work pretty well with homebrew like mGBA and Nintendont, they’re just not available officially.

thehellrocc , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to gaming in It's official, Microsoft now owns ABK

The way back machine has it archived as early as December 2017, no idea beyond that.

thehellrocc , 10 months ago to piracy in Starfield has been cracked

Dude, the 1080 came out in 2016, that was just… oh.

thehellrocc , 10 months ago to gaming in Need some local coop recommendations

Unravel 2 is awesome

thehellrocc , 10 months ago to gaming in 5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

The only (large enough) area which is currently lacking is multiplayer games, especially those with anticheats. Unfortunately, there’s nothing users can do about that other than wait for game developers to enable wine support, which, despite EAC and Battleye significantly simplifying the process, many still haven’t done.

thehellrocc , 10 months ago to gaming in 5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

I’ve never had this issue but it might be specific to the game you’re trying, using gamescope might help.

thehellrocc , 10 months ago to gaming in 5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

Yeah, it’s probably more about them not being locked in MS’s ecosystem more than anything, but whatever the intention may be, everyone is benefiting from the results.

thehellrocc , 10 months ago to technology in "What do we do now?" - LMG's response to the recent controversies

That’s not all the context, though. GamersNexus made a video detailing it further. and a follow-up.

thehellrocc , 10 months ago to gaming in What are some open source games you can recommend for Linux?

Warzone 2100 is a nice RTS, especially fun with friends

thehellrocc , 11 months ago to technology in Twitter To Rebrand As X

Are you on NVIDIA?

thehellrocc , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to technology in Don't Join Threads—Make Threads Join You

XMPP is a protocol for decentralised chats, allowing people registered on different servers to chat with people on other servers, kind of similar to how email works (and Lemmy of course).

Google Talk was a service by Google which started with XMPP support, letting users from other XMPP servers chat with Google Talk users. Google Talk was always slightly different from the XMPP standard, due to having proprietary code in its backend, leading to chats between Talk users working flawlessly but not between XMPP and Talk users. Slowly, Google Talk became more popular than the other servers.

Eventually, XMPP server-to-server support was removed as part of their transition to Hangouts, meaning once Talk users switched to it, XMPP users would no longer be able to chat with them and would have to switch to Hangouts. While XMPP still exists today, it’s definitely a niche nowadays, and this is part of the reason.

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thehellrocc , 11 months ago to technology in Don't Join Threads—Make Threads Join You

That’s how people thought it would have gone with XMPP and Google Talk, but that’s not how it went at all