I bought a DS about ten years ago during the peak Pokemon GO craze just to play HeartGold, and since I completely missed out on the handheld when it was actually current, I figured I would dive into the rest of the library over time. Most of it was an awesome history lesson, but a handful of games made me so genuinely angry I almost launched the console across the room. I have played a lot of video games in my life, but nothing compares to THIS specific, burning rage of having a hardware gimmick forced into core gameplay.

Take Wario Master of Disguise, which I just beat today (and hence needing to vent). I am beyond frustrated with it even after finishing it. Trying to scribble specific geometric shapes on the touch screen in the middle of an intense platforming section, only for the game to misinterpret my quick stroke and completely ruin my flow, is a special kind of agony.

And it is a whole pattern. The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass decided that traditional Dpad controls were illegal and forced you to pilot Link and swing his sword entirely with the stylus. Star Fox Command took an arcade shooter and turned it into an unplayable chore by making you draw flight paths and barrel rolls on the screen instead of just playing. And as much as DK Jungle Climber doesn't rely on DS gimmicks, I put it hear because it still fits into the timeline when Nintendo felt that we needed all our favorite IPs to be "fresh and different". And apparently peg swinging nonsense was the answer. That game made me rage as much as Wario.

It drives me crazy because when developers actually used the second screen as a sensible, auxiliary tool, the DS was an absolute joy. Look at Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros keeping classic button controls intact while using the bottom screen as a clean, realtime map. Look at Pokemon HeartGold and Golden Sun Dark Dawn using it for menus and inventory so you didnt have to pause every five seconds.

The second screen paved the way for how great dual screens and touch controls could be when used well. But man, forcing mic blowing, stylus controls, and shape drawing into an action platformer was complete idiocy. I swear Nintendo should never go down that road again.

If you got this far, thanks for reading this rant.

Peter Singer conceived Effective Altruism in earnest to address urgent global suffering, grounding it in a simple moral obligation: using evidence and reason to save as many lives as possible. However, its utilitarian logic prioritizes maximum metrics over structural reform. This opened the door for tech billionaires to adopt the movement as a high-minded shield. By framing massive wealth accumulation as a necessary tool to fund grand, future-oriented causes, elites can weaponize the philosophy to validate unchecked economic power and justify doing whatever they want with their fortunes under the banner of "doing good."

If anyone was confused for example, of Musk's motivations, this will clear things up.

I’ve actually just started getting involved in the scene the "right" way. I’ve been practicing MIPS assembly and C coding for a while now, and I was really looking forward to finally understanding how my favorite games work under the hood. But now I’m genuinely concerned I’ve shown up too late.

Between the influx of AI slop and seeing central hubs like decomp.dev shut down, the sentiment on Lemmy makes it sound like the community aspect of decomp is completely dead. Then I go over to Reddit's /r/decomps and see people celebrating AI because it’s speeding up port releases.

I actually want to write the code. I want to understand the architecture, learn how these games function, and help build cool mods that are only possible when you have clean, human-readable source code. But I'm worried the whole space is getting flooded by people who just know how to prompt an LLM to spit out a barely functional port.

What is actually going to happen to the decomp scene? Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for people who care about the craftsmanship, or are we watching a truly amazing community face an extinction event?

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is far from a 1:1 remake. When I played it, I found familiar rooms containing redesigned challenges that change how the world and player function. I spoke to old friends who had new things to say that added texture to Hyrule and its people. And, I unpacked how its updated controls and detailed art design redefine its old-school combat and puzzle solving for the modern day. This remake isn’t about scope; it’s about depth. The Zelda series is full of old stories, and the Ocarina of Time remake presents itself as a legend retold, with clear theatrical inspirations that have completely changed how I’m approaching it. Previewed by Logan Plant

Bug Report

Sorry I swear I won't post again! But thank you for such a good app!

Describe the issue:

When trying to fill a 5th multicommunity, I can only see 4 multicommunities and cant see the 5th one. It seems the scroll is bugging out. This is also an issue when you tap the info icon on the multicommunity feed. You can't scroll through all of your communities in that multi.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Make 5 or more multis
2. Try to add a community to one of the last ones you made.
3. In the add popup window, scroll doesn't work to see the ones hidden at the bottom of the list.

Device Information

• App Version: 1.0.479 (479)

• Platform: android

• OS Version: CPH2551_16.0.3.505(EX01)

• Migration: n/a (attempts: 0)

Modified Settings

The following settings have been changed from defaults:

• defaultRoute: /community?postCommonListingType=Subscribed&hint=Frontpage (default: null)
• defaultPostSort: Scaled (default: Active)
• cardType: list (default: card)
• drawerStates9: [true, true, false, false, true, true, true, true, true] (default: [true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true])
• theme: dark (default: system)
• imageDomainRewrites: {} (default: {})

Bug Report

Describe the issue: Just wanted to point out that anytime I try to remove a favorite community, in the app, it doesn't go away. The only way I've been able to clear my favorites is by clearing all app data on my OS which is Oxygen OS (I own a One Plus Open).

If this is a known bug, the feel free to delete my post, but I didn't see anything about this when I searched the community posts.

Steps to reproduce:

1. On the left toolbar under the favorits category, click the three dots next to community and choose remove from favorites.
2. It will now disappear.
3. Back out of the tool bar and refresh your feed. Open up the left toolbar again and the community has returned to your favorites.

Device Information

• App Version: 1.0.479 (479)

• Platform: android

• OS Version: CPH2551_16.0.3.505(EX01)

• Migration: n/a (attempts: 0)

Modified Settings

The following settings have been changed from defaults:

• defaultRoute: /community?postCommonListingType=Subscribed&hint=Frontpage (default: null)
• defaultPostSort: Scaled (default: Active)
• cardType: list (default: card)
• drawerStates9: [true, true, false, false, true, true, true, false, true] (default: [true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true, true])
• theme: dark (default: system)
• imageDomainRewrites: {} (default: {})

I’m curious to get a general pulse on how people here view the rapid evolution of AI, specifically on lemmy. On one side, there’s growing interest in local open-weights models, self-hosted setups, and practical developer/productivity tools. On the other, there seems to be a growing list, I can't keep track of, that are seen as major concerns. I'm not here to pick sides or be biased in one corner. Im genuinely curious what people have to say about AI in general. And maybe it will help me and other get a better handle on how we perceived it in our ever changing world.

Ive looked through my post history and I haven't down-voted myself but I did find one post that I removed the upvote entirely. But on the connect app it still shows -1 after I put the upvote back on that comment. Any ideas oh how to fix this?

I get it strange because we have TOS comics which are great of course. But I've become quite attached to the redesigned Enterprise, the updated interiors and the new faces to our familiar crew. So it would be cool see what we could have been if a show was greenlit. Hell who knows what Paramount will do once SNW ends next year. They didn't sell off the sets, so there's always a chance that the new trek showrunner still does it. But IDW would be a good fall back.

Anthony Gonzalez intentionally stepped away from commercial, radio friendly pop machinery this time around. He teamed back up with Benoit de Villeneuve to strip things down to his early 2000s bedroom recording roots. Outside of the massive shoegaze wall of sound on the opening single Blister Sunrise, this is a heavily atmospheric, melancholic, and mostly instrumental record.