Well, my dad works at Nintendo and~: Console Wars Horseshit Megathread

[Yegolev]

I was always confident that a Phantom Dust sequel would be awful.  Personally, I enjoyed the music a tremendous amount, as well as the general atmosphere.  That was something that was almost certainly not going to survive into the new version.

I still have a Olde Xboxe somewhere in the house, anyway.

[schild]

Godddddddd I loved Phantom Dust. So this, despite being sad, is excellent news.

[Hawkbit]

Snagged a new 3DSXL by change the store near me got a few.  Pretty excited to play Xenoblade Chronicles on it in April.

[Hawkbit]

Is the New 3DSXL worth the upgrade from a previous 3DSXL?

Overall, it's pretty much the same device and I won't directly recommend the upgrade. Yet.

Pros:
Required for some future games such as Xenoblade Chronicles.
Loads faster between menus, maybe 2x faster?
3D is MUCH improved; device or head can be moved and the effect is retained. Still not perfect, but much better.
It has a C stick which I haven't used yet.
The screens appear slightly more crisp, though not sure if that's just my perception.
Button and cartridge slot placement appears better.

Cons:
The color black on the case to Nintendo is more like #363636, not #000000. I wished I would have gone red instead.
The case is glossy, not matte like the previous version.
It uses mSD, not SD like the original 3DSXL, so my data won't directly transfer unless I get a converter.
** No AC adapter (big fuck you to Nintendo on this). Luckily Amazon USB->DS cables are $6.00.
Turn off Auto-Brightness, which adapts to the surrounding light. It kept dimming and brightening while I was playing.

I have Majora's Mask on order and the upgrade only cost me $100, so it's worth it to me. At full price? I would have waited.

[Fabricated]

I'm playing Monster Hunter 4 and it's pretty good but it may as well have a boxing glove with the words "fuck off" pop out of the DS and hit you in the face with how impenetrable it is.

[Jeff Kelly]

Have they improved the hinges on the new 3ds?

The ones on the current modesl are pretty flimsy and wobbly.

[Margalis]

I'm playing Monster Hunter 4 and it's pretty good but it may as well have a boxing glove with the words "fuck off" pop out of the DS and hit you in the face with how impenetrable it is.

Play with someone who knows what they're doing. It's the only way!

The "Gaijin Hunter" videos are pretty good as well.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT84SVapAfSSD_iMfpKbFbA

[Rokal]

I also heard the textures were higher quality if you were playing MH4 on New 3DS, which was surprising. It's the only game I've heard of with any visual differences though, so far.

I'll probably pick one up eventually for the head-tracking 3D effect, which may finally make the 3D usable in games like Mario 3D Land.

Here's the texture examples if anyone is curious. It's the same monster, the jaw just looks so different because it's been broken in one of the images.

Regular 3DSXL:




New 3DSXL:

[Hawkbit]

Have they improved the hinges on the new 3ds?

The ones on the current modesl are pretty flimsy and wobbly.

Twofold answer.

The hinges feel less wobbly back and forth; mine old 3dsXL always had a half-inch floppy place where it didn't click into place. The new one feels better in that regard, but it now has a weird gap in the hinge sides, so the top screen has an sixteenth-inch gap that it shifts left to right. Hard to describe, though I think it's a tad more annoying than the previous hinge problem.

My biggest complaint with the physical design in the case plastic seems far thinner. In fact, my case has little dimples in the plastic where the innards attach at different parts. I *think* it's because the cases are supposed to be interchangable, but it just doesn't seem as solid of a device as previous models.

I played OOT a bit last night. The textures weren't better, but the screens are a bit more crisp and feel like they have more color in them.

[schild]

http://imgur.com/gallery/xsHn3

heh

[Yegolev]

Wii = hentai = LOL

[Shannow]

I'm curious about the 1% of users over 65. First off that anyone over 50 uses a console, two that they are using it to access porn.

[HaemishM]

Old people need to rub one out too. 


Ewww.

[Rendakor]

I've got a 60 year old coworker who got his email account compromised because he browsed unsafe porn on his cell phone.

[HaemishM]

I do not understand purposefully browsing any visual media on a cell phone. Particularly sports or pr0n.

[Yegolev]

Damn kids and their pocket computers!

[KallDrexx]

The original article is quite an interesting, if not hillarious read.

Graphically it's SFW, the words on the page though are not NSFW.

[stray]

I do not understand purposefully browsing any visual media on a cell phone. Particularly sports or pr0n.

pr0n makes a lot of sense. 

Not sure about sports.

[Fabricated]

I want to know what the deal is with WiiU porn browsers using the "instructional" tag

[Sir T]

Because they are teaching people the art of love.

[Yegolev]

I feel like the Vita is under-represented.  For some reason.

[KallDrexx]

I want to know what the deal is with WiiU porn browsers using the "instructional" tag

So funny story somewhat related to this.

The startup my friends and I started is called Joicaster, and we sometimes call it JOI for short.  Well google analytics kept showing an abnormal amount of people come to the site from google by searching for JOI, but almost all of them left right away.  We were confused until we found out that JOI stands for Jerk Off Instruction, and apparently a lot of people look for videos on it.

[Hawkbit]

So are you planning to change the name or the product direction?

[Falconeer]

Haha! Jerk Off Instructions are videos of people (mostly women) telling YOU the watcher how to jerk off. Basically ordering you to do it and how to do it. And yes, I was going to ask what Hawkbit asked 

[KallDrexx]

Eh, most people dont' refer to us with the shorthand joi, and we have yet to meet any potential customers that does livestreaming that even thought about the JOI acronym, so for now we are just going to leave it.  Hell most friends we've joked about it with never even knew there was a sexual acronym for JOI.  We also don't ever refer to the product publicaly as joi, always Joicaster.

[Pennilenko]

Haha! Jerk Off Instructions are videos of people (mostly women) telling YOU the watcher how to jerk off. Basically ordering you to do it and how to do it. And yes, I was going to ask what Hawkbit asked 

You seem to know quite a bit about this particular topic...

[stray]

I've run across one of those. That's what it for? I thought it was some weird "Gonzo" shit or something.

What kind of retard needs to learn how to jerk off?

[Merusk]

From the description Falc gave it's not about learning. It's about being told what to do, being dominated.

Some folks are tops, some are bottoms, lots are both.

[Falconeer]

Haha! Jerk Off Instructions are videos of people (mostly women) telling YOU the watcher how to jerk off. Basically ordering you to do it and how to do it. And yes, I was going to ask what Hawkbit asked 

You seem to know quite a bit about this particular topic...

Not a user of that, and definitely not a mainstream porn expert at all. But some of my friends are sex workers and they keep me up to date.

[stray]

From the description Falc gave it's not about learning. It's about being told what to do, being dominated.

Some folks are tops, some are bottoms, lots are both.

I don't know what to say then.


It's a sad day when dudebros at bodybuilding.com is a source for anything remotely normal these days.

[Cyrrex]

Not a user of that, and definitely not a mainstream porn expert at all. But some of my friends are sex workers and they keep me up to date.

Like with product demos?  Your life seems to be filled with nudity.  I envy you.

[Falconeer]

I think it just has to do with where your idea of society and 'norms' lead you. Mine led me there.

[Azazel]

Well, I've read your grief title...

[MahrinSkel]

Vanilla JOI isn't even the weirdest: Look up "Cock Hero", if you want to see your pastimes collide in a squicky way.

Do I even need to give that an NSFW warning? Don't look it up anywhere you might have to explain it.

--Dave

[Cyrrex]

Wait...what version of Cock Hero means anything other than a guy in a cape with his ding dong standing at attention?