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The original PlayStation 5, colloquially referred to now as the PlayStation 5 Fat, was equipped with 825GB of internal storage, of which approximately 650GB was accessible to the user, depending on system updates and other variables. The shift to the PlayStation 5 Slim introduced numerous enhancements, including an increase to 1TB of storage, providing the user with approximately 850GB of available space (subject to similar factors).

The CFI-2116 revision, also known as “Chassis E,” marks the return of the 825GB SSD, which Sony advertises on the new packaging. Consumers are losing close to 200GB, or 24%, of usable, high-speed storage with the latest revision. You could argue that 200GB isn’t a lot, and that’s true in a way since some AAA titles — specifically, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War — are pushing over 300GB of installed size. But under normal circumstances, 200GB should be enough for one or two games.

Seems like Sony has a bunch of 825GB hard drives sitting around to me.

Still playing Void Stranger. It’s hard as balls, I was beating rooms in about two to five minutes, now it’s taking me ten to twenty.

It’s good money for content though. I’m at hour twentyish and the end still isn’t in sight. I like that you can close out at any time and not lose progress so it lets you take it at your own pace.

I know that there’s other endings beside the main one (I found two of them!) but once I beat the main story path I’m just gonna look that shit up cuz I want to finish this game and get on to its sister ZeroRanger.

itt: people confusing Pauline with Peach

Goldeneye unshackled from the N64’s limitations (ie on an emulator with 60 fps, max draw distance, and mouse controls) is so good.

Getting a gameball literally changed my life. They’re fukken pricey tho i would try to find a decent used trackball now (or buy arcade machine components and make one myself maybe) if I needed one.

leaning to play with a gyro is hard at first, and you can of course be limited by having a low-quality gyro in your controller, but cross the threshold and it’s better than a joystick by miles.

not as good as a mouse or even a trackball tho

Genuinely for like a decade PC gamers watched as the games that were popular on console dragged the whole fukken industry down. Valve was infamously forced by Microsoft to charge money on 360 for a map pack that was free on PC, games went from letting the user simply drag and drop files into a “mods” folder to being locked down and all the code obfuscated to prevent mod development, and the games themselves got shorter and shallower chasing the trends that AAA devs pioneered in their race to get money from dudebros who only played Halo and Call of Duty.

Yes all of this was capitalism doing its thing but consoles were undoubtedly at the forefront of all of the enshittification happening at that time which is why people like me came to absolutely loathe them the way that mobile games are loathed for pioneering shitty practices now.

I’m more of a classic Castlevania head for sure. Give me a bunch of levels and crisp controls and that’s all I need from a game, even if it’s balls hard that’s fine as long as it’s fair. I’ve tried to get into SOTN and other games in that style (including most Metroid titles) and I always bounce off.

That said, the so-called “metroidbrainia” genre is quickly emerging as one of my favorites, so maybe it’s just the games that are closely modeled after SOTN/Metroid that I don’t like.

One of the first cultural wins for the modern right was switching the average apolitical person’s view of who the most annoying people in politics were. For a long time it was right wing Christian groups, but some time during the Obama era it became progressives.

And like all right wing viewpoints, it was completely disconnected from reality. Groups who’ve never had any political power in their life became widely believed to be running society, and things that have never happened became believed to be happening everywhere and be those groups’ fault.

Hello Games may well end up developing NMS forever, but their next game is on one huge planet instead of many small ones, and has a fantasy vibe, so they’re definitely looking to switch it up.

Started Void Stranger last night, only a couple hours in and it’s already got one of of my favorite game mechanics of all time, when

I got a few of the hidden mechanics and story beats spoiled for me by a Super Eyepatch Wolf video but that doesn’t mean that the first ending didn’t absolutely hit, it’s just so fucking tragic and good and experiencing it is so much better than watching a video about it.

Now I’m in fully uncharted territory tracking hints, strange wall symbols, and lore tidbits in my own notepad doc. I saw this weird cutscene with a statue that hard reset all my progress, but it barely mattered because I’ve got a list of shortcuts so I was able to speedrun my way back to where I left off.

On that note “speedrunning” is what I would call a major theme in the gameplay, since there’s a lot of stuff that sends you back and if you want to maintain your sanity you’ll be figuring out ways to go faster and faster. It starts with coming up with more efficient puzzle solutions, then you’ll learn about shortcuts that let you skip two dozen or more floors, then you’ll learn about game mechanics that go even faster than that.

It’s a brutal game but if you experiment you can figure out hidden mechanics long before the game actually tells you about them and it’s a great feeling (although sometimes you’ll skip way ahead to a floor with a monster you don’t recognize because you skipped the tutorial for it and you’ll have no lives and it will just wreck you instantly).

Aww man that thing is so retro and cool.

Instead of downvotes, we have many, many disapproving emotes.

I grew up on N64, IMO Star Fox 64 and F Zero X are among the greatest games ever made.

Final Fantasy series

FF6 and 7 are both fine starting points, SNES and PS1 respectively. FF Tactics is also a great game from the PS1 era, but best thought of as its own thing because aside from some visual designs it doesn’t share much in common with the other FF games.

Also you should give Dreamcast a try! It’s technically a generation later but emulation for it is really mature so it can run better than PS1 on some computers. Space Channel 5, Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Power Stone, Samba de Amigo, Skies of Arcadia, Resident Evil Code Veronica, uhhhh Rez and Ikaruga and I guess Shenmue is cool too

I thought maybe the recentish entries did alright but nope both of them got absolutely slammed lmao.

I guess they must be getting money just from the meme of Bubsy being bad. It’s kinda like the Sonic franchise but more self aware.

Imagining a world where Nancy Pelosi was using her insider trading money to fund Maoist rebels in the Appalacians.

On the one hand I agree that some dressing rules in schools and working places are fine - but on the other you have to be willfully ignorant if you can’t see the blatant Islamophobia at play with targeting religious head coverings like this. Note how they always go after niqabs, but never dastars. Dressing rules at school should be about teaching kids what’s expected in polite society, and polite society should make room for cultural expression.

being bi is equivalent to eating babies

might want to rethink your example there

I always appreciate it when the test has a question or two like this sprinkled in (and if the teacher did it by accident, all the funnier)

I’m a fan of this banger myself