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@SixoTF Can't decide between Star Saber and Overgeared Optimus. I missed my chance with flame toys and now he's here again. On the other hand that new Optimus design really slaps

TakaraTomy just dropped the motherload of toy reveals — with tons of new stuff unveiled at the Shizuoka Hobby Show! There's a lot to take in, but you can check it all out in a new article here --> LINK BELOW What's got you most excited?

@TFHypeGuy I missed my chance on flame toys one. Hopefully i can get this one. Is there any release date mentioned?

ADAMAS MACHINA IDW STAR SABER!! Takara is following up on their IDW Hot Rod with a new super expensive IDW Star Saber!! And oh my god this looks REMARKABLE!!

@NikoBramza Is this model going to be available on your gumroad?

@SimMattically @daron55690 @sillyramiel They brought it back and mirror's edge is specifically listed as one of the supported game.

@daron55690 @sillyramiel I've heard they actually brough the physX back to 50s a few months ago. 😭

This is why piracy is so needed. I downloaded my old Mirror's Edge from EA App and I can't play it due to "license limit" and they want me to contact EA Support. It's much faster for me to download the DRM free GOG version than bother with this EA shit.

@juresmccann Always liked how colorful the side panel and toolbar were in windows vista. It was very different compared to windows xp. Too bad they didn't carry over to windows 7

Windows Vista Main Menu (2007)

@kvbrd_YT @VinciusMedeiro6 Yes, the shadow and texture bugs are gone afaik.

@VinciusMedeiro6 did emulation for it improve recently? last time I tried to run it through PCSX2 it had very weird graphics glitches, and the only way to play it decently was in software mode

Trying out the 2004 Transformers game for the PS2, and it's one of the most impressive graphical showcases for the PS2 I've seen. Could almost pass as an Xbox title.

@WebDesignMuseum Vista, just for the aero alone

Which do you think was better, Windows Vista or Windows 8.1?

@Pirat_Nation What's with all the attacks recently? Is it because steam is not publicly traded company?

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticizes the way Valve handles microtransactions and commissions on Steam, calling their method "illegal." He stated that once a player owns a game, Steam requires all in-game purchases to use Steam payments and pay Valve a 30% commission, with no option to direct users to external payment methods.

@Pirat_Nation Kinda surprised they used the original song. It was not there in the Wii remake

FATAL FRAME II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE drops March 12, 2026.

@Pirat_Nation They are playing those games on real consoles, right?

Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are competing to see whose AI can play Pokémon the best. Gemini leads by completing Pokémon Blue and advancing in sequels, while GPT models have also finished Blue and progressed further. Claude's latest Opus version remains on Pokémon Blue/Red, slowly working toward gym badges and the Elite Four after months of attempts.

@ShitpostRock Elephant chapter from it takes two. Could also work if you swap the faces

@Pirat_Nation They probably lost the knowledge on how to do it, given how visual studio also lost its ability to undock its toolbars around and then put them wherever the user want on the screen

Microsoft says it is too hard to move the taskbar and will never add the ability too. windowslatest.com/2025/12/19/why…

@VideoCardz Phew. Really got me worried for a second there

Samsung denies rumor about exiting SATA SSD business, says reports are false videocardz.com/newz/samsung-d…

@Pirat_Nation It looks like this rat has a rather short attention span

The experiment training rats to play Doom reaches a new level: rats can now shoot enemies. An added trigger mechanism allows the rats, which navigate the game using wraparound AMOLED screens, to shoot.

@davepl1968 I feel like nobody at microsoft remember about the ctrl thing because it still spawns a cmd.exe instead of their terminal app on win11

You know the drill... I'm so old I worked on the Windows Run dialog! We adapted the Win95 version's UI and then tweaked the way it ran. There were a number of interesting problems with the original once we had it running on NT. Some of that stemmed from the shell having been developed on a broadcast network (netbeui? ipx?) that could resolve server names pretty much instantly. NT/Win2K was TCP/IP from the start, so we had a very different use case. For example, if you hit a UNC path over TCP/IP, the timeout could be 90 seconds during which your desktop was hung. Not cool. So I made all of that async, invoked things on seperate threads, and so on. There was also an insidious issue where autocomplete would repeatedly hit a server as you typed the incomplete path, and if it had a domain policy for "Lock User out after N invalid attempts", merely typing the name of the server would get you banned before you could open it! Task Manager (you knew it was coming!) uses the Run dialog as well, but in case the shell is down or inoperable, it always invokes it asynchronously. And if it's really messed up, you can hold down CTRL while clicking "New Task..." in Task Manager and get a console instead.

@WindowsLatest Number 3 would require microsoft to use WinUI 3 and acknowledge how lackluster it was without a working designer

The state of popular Windows 11 apps and their RAM management is concerning, especially as RAM prices continue to rise. 1. Discord is always 1GB and even hits up to 4GB 2. WhatsApp is now a web app, not a native app, and RAM usage is frequently 1GB 3. Microsoft Teams, also a web app, uses 1GB+ RAM Is it really that difficult to build native and resources-optimized apps for these companies?

@hardwarecanucks TIL there's a font called 'Nvidia Sans'

But yeah, just add Copilot, everything will be OK amirite? 🙃

@TheBobPony Tbh I wish they updated the ribbon to match the latest office's ribbon style instead of replacing it with the winui control

When disabling the WinUI based elements of File Explorer in Windows 11, not only it fixes the flash bang introduced in the recent preview update and makes File Explorer open faster, it also reduces its memory usage by 69%!

@vxunderground Just make sure they are getting some actual use instead of being sold again, i think

Someone is offering to gift me 4 32gb DDR5 RAM sticks to giveaway.... D...do we accept that as a giveaway item??? These things are seriously like, $700 - $900 right now. That would make this worth approx. $1,400 - $1,800

@WindowsLatest It doesn't even use any ribbon control and yet is still slower than the windows 10 one

Tested: Windows 11’s ‘faster’ File Explorer (preloaded) is still slower than Windows 10. On a 4GB RAM test machine, File Explorer used ~32.4MB of RAM without preloading. After turning on preloading, Windows quietly adds ~35MB more. So Explorer now sits at ~67.4MB in memory before you even open it. 35MB isn’t a big deal in 2025. Your browser eats that for breakfast. That's not the point of my testing. Why is the preloaded File Explorer still slower than Windows 10? I made a video to compare the two versions.