doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPto games@hexbear.net•Thank you, intrepid 90's game journalist, for asking the real questionsEnglish3·2 days agoDoes that site have any UK Official PlayStation Magazine issues? Archive.org used to have almost all of them but some UK forum issued a DMCA takedown.
The UK version started out a bit earlier and there are a ton of games the US one didn’t get to cover as a result
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPto games@hexbear.net•Thank you, intrepid 90's game journalist, for asking the real questionsEnglish7·2 days agoI had a bunch of PS1 era issues of the UK version of The Official PlayStation Magazine (and some US ones) as a kid, then a bit later I bought one in the early 2000s and it was noticeably sleazier- for example, there was a section for porn movie reviews
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPto games@hexbear.net•Thank you, intrepid 90's game journalist, for asking the real questionsEnglish9·3 days agoThen there’s the Japanese localisation of the first game that gives everything an extremely 90’s anime reskin
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Poor People's March (1968) - New General Megathread for the 12th-15th of May 2025English14·4 days agoGoing to a space run by leftists and seeing an “anti-tankie aktion” sticker on the wall
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•I love being forced to look at reams of LLM-generated nonsense before the actual search results, thank you GoogleEnglish11·6 days agoIsn’t DuckDuckGo just Google in a funny hat
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Poor People's March (1968) - New General Megathread for the 12th-15th of May 2025English2·6 days agoThat process feels much more like hacking a Wii or PS3 than simply installing Linux on a PC though
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Poor People's March (1968) - New General Megathread for the 12th-15th of May 2025English3·6 days agoI also wish Android phones had an equivalent of installing Linux on a laptop with an unsupported version of Windows to keep them alive
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Poor People's March (1968) - New General Megathread for the 12th-15th of May 2025English2·6 days agoNote that I had some very specific requirements which probably won’t apply to you
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Under 150 euros
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Better specs than my old Redmi
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2 separate SIM slots as well as an SD card slot, no hybrid SIM bullshit
That last one turned out to be the most limiting one of them all as very few phones seem to have all three slots these days. I took a look at your S7 Edge’s specs and honestly, you could easily replace it with a sub-200 dollar phone though you might have to compromise on your screen resolution a bit- cheaper phones seem to be still using 1080p and even 720p screens.
Something like this might tick your boxes if it’s available in your region
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doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Poor People's March (1968) - New General Megathread for the 12th-15th of May 2025English2·6 days agoThe battery life calculator claimed it would add over 2 hours to battery life which sounded fairly substantial. The battery on my previous phone is completely fried after about 5 years to the point that browsing the Internet for 15 minutes consumes about 20-30 percent so I kind of want to baby my new phone as much as I can. The smart charging options on newer versions of Android should make that pretty easy though.
Anyway, the battery’s so bad on my old phone that it limits reusing it as something like a dedicated emulator device which is a shame since it’d be pretty decent for that sort of thing. It just irks me that we have these really neat little portable computing devices that are destined for the landfill because of their shitty non-replaceable batteries.
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Poor People's March (1968) - New General Megathread for the 12th-15th of May 2025English6·6 days agoMy new phone has a 90hz display. My phone immediately suggested I turn the refresh rate down to 60hz to save battery life, which I did.
Why would I need a billion fps on a fairly basic phone anyway
But isn’t his mouth supposed to be stuffed full of cigarettes
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Karl Marx - New General Megathread for the 5th-11th of May 2025English7·9 days agoI’m at my city’s annual hanami event and for some fucking reason for a good while there was just what sounded like generic movie trailer music blaring from the festival ground, who booked this shit
Edit: there is now Japanese music, sanity has been restored
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Even supermarket chains give out achievements nowEnglish4·10 days agoSome overcompetitive weirdo with lots of disposable income would put way too much time and money into making sure he’d stay on top
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•Palworld's newest patch stops you from gliding with your Pals, and yes, it is because of Nintendo's lawsuitEnglish12·11 days agoThis all just seems so fucking petty. I’m pretty sure there have been plenty of games where you can fly using some kind of tamed creature
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPto games@hexbear.net•Gears of War 1 remastered, soon to be regurgitated for PS5English3·13 days agoI think it’s just that Microsoft didn’t feel like it was worth the investment to also give Gears 2, 3 and possibly Judgment the next-gen remake treatment back when they did Gears of War: Ultimate Edition. They also don’t feel like just doing straight up ports of the remaining games now for PS5 and PC because they fear people would see them as too outdated and since they’re fully backwards compatible and enhanced on Xbox consoles (and XCloud
) they feel like they’re already available enough for those who want the classic games
Personally, I’m just fuming about how Microsoft has handled the franchise because I never even wanted remakes in the first place. The Xbox 360 games have an iconic, era-defining look (and still look great!) and rebuilding them in UE4 or now UE5 just takes all of that away. All they needed to do was publish a collection of all 4 games for PC years ago
Oh yeah, and fuck CliffyB and Epic too. When Gears of War 2 was coming out he proclaimed that the series would never release on PC again after people gasp pirated the PC port of the first game and none of the other Epic-developed titles ever made it to PC.
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•I have zero hype for GTA 6English5·13 days agoI have to assume 5 was some kind of reaction to people who complained 4 was “too serious” or something. But the only game they’ve put out since GTA5 has been RDR2, which was markedly less wacky than RDR1, which was already less wacky than GTA4 so it’s hard to pin down where 6 will land
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPto diy@hexbear.net•Any DIY U-lock mount ideas?English2·13 days agoI ended up printing one of these at my local library, it works like a charm! Thanks for the tip
doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•I have zero hype for GTA 6English31·13 days agoMy problem with GTA VI that prevents me from getting excited for it is that the PC version is going to come out in like 2029 and my computer will assuredly not be able to run it
Video game perverts in the 90s had to use their imagination- gamers have it too easy these days with their Stellar Blades and their 4k Korean supermodel butts with a million polygons