Thanks for explaining this simply. Somehow I never learned this in school.

Funny you say that. Mario Kart DS was peak offline social gaming for me. Back when it came out, lots of kids at my high school carried their DS on them and lunch was nothing but Mario Kart. At least it was among marching band nerds. And if someone happened to have a DS but not Mario Kart, we'd just do Download Play so they can at least join us in a limited capacity.

I don't know anything about this game/series, but that looks like such a cool bundle. If I found that as a kid, I would be hyped as hell to play it. Can just imagine unfolding that packaging with all the discs would feel like opening a treasure chest.

Look, I love the guy, but 90 minutes of Charles Martinet wahoo-ing through the Mario movie would be completely unwatchable. There's a reason Mario almost never says more than a few words at a time.

This kind of thing didn't used to bother me at all before it very much bothered me and now I'm somewhere in the middle. I think cartridges/discs for consoles should not require an Internet connection to play them. That said, this isn't the PS2 era anymore. Many games release with patches day 1 and most will have at least some updates post launch. A lot of games kept offline end up missing out on a ton. Keeping a physical copy of a game is only preserving a portion of the game for a future without the servers to supply the final version, which is my main concern when it comes to physical vs digital media. We still have to rely on hacked consoles running custom firmware or emulation to properly preserve games.

OK, I promise I only know this because it's related to my job: In the movie that came out earlier this year, there are minions with super powers. This one is supposed to be a rip off of The Thing from Fantastic Four. That's why it looks like that.

There's an international grocery near me that has at least one type of nut and one dried fruit on steep sale each week. Just buy a couple pounds of those each week. It's not all I eat, but it's pretty much all I snack on. Probably about 20% of my diet.

The Oracle games had GBA releases? Wow, that's news to me.

I've seen this kind of defensive comment from you before when you've been called out. I personally do not mind the "spam." Lemmy is always short on new posts, so spam away. What I want to show you is how your posts end up looking to others.

The headline/subject is always cut off because it's too long. Just think you should paraphrase it abbreviate when possible and permitted by the Lemmy community in order to avoid making posts that don't make sense. In this case, I'd just leave it at "Scared Shitless Official Trailer" and leave the description for the body of the post.

I've done my share of console software mods, but PS2 was one of the more confusing ones for sure. From what I remember, the HDD loader is the most recommended method, but it requires either a drive with an outdated connection that mostly is not manufactured anymore or another hardware mod to make it compatible with SATA HDDs. You also need to format it in a way that makes it a huge pain in the ass to load games above a certain size or you can use a modified version of the loader on the PS2 firmware that can read NTFS formatted drives, but is harder to find guides for and I believe some PC-side tools are incompatible with it. I also experienced multiple unexplainable bugs throughout the process. I fully gave up after failing to get box art and widescreen cheats working on my modded PS2 and just emulate on Steam Deck instead.

But even if all of this did work, the other poster is right; after opening multiple menus and picking a game from a list, it just doesn't actually feel that much like playing a PS2 anymore.

The system is also designed to transmit vibrations into the chassis through elastomeric bushings, mimicking an internal combustion engine and its motor mounts.

I get that EVs need to make noise, but what the fuck is this? One of the best things about driving something without an ICE is the car doesn't vibrate at all while it's on.

Some life, sure. We'll extinct untold millions of species on the way out. Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park, was a climate change denier, not a scientist.