Here’s hoping I can actually get a 50-series card through Nvidia’s priority access program!
🫢 Local big box store broke the street date for these, but I won’t complain!
🔗 Scalper bots gobbled up every last 5080 and 5090 in Europe.
Nvidia doesn’t care. Retailers don’t care. All that matters to them is that they get their money. Nvidia makes a killing on cards for AI farms, then hand out a few to TikTok influencers and say “See? We still make gaming GPUs.”
Well, looks like I missed any chance of getting an Nvidia 50-series card on launch day. Best Buy can’t seem to decide whether or not they actually want to sell any, and the official Nvidia shop website is still completely broken. Typical launch day mess, I suppose.
“Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.”
Nintendo would be very stupid to not use hall effect thumbsticks in the Switch 2, considering the drama and lawsuits around stick drift on the first console.
My local GameStop is closing. I’ll miss driving past the classic Halo 3 mural every day.
Gorgeous sunset tonight. And I kinda love the Meta Ray Bans color rendering.
8BitDo has a new smartphone clip that works with their Micro and Zero2 gamepads. Looks like a great option for retro gaming with Delta!
Got a set of Moondrop’s Honkai Star Rail collab earbuds. They sound great, maybe not quite AirPods Pro 2 great, but pretty fantastic for $100. And that iridescent finish is just beautiful.
✅ LTT Commuter Backpack secured.
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 →
hoHoYo, merry Christmas!
Over an hour into the Steam winter sale and the site is still broken. Calm down people, the games aren’t going anywhere.
Anbernic’s GBA clone, the RG34XX, is up for order on their official store. I’ll definitely be picking one of these up, but I’ll wait for the 3rd-party AliExpress sellers once it’s got a bit of a discount and free shipping.
Moondrop’s new Honkai Star Rail collab wireless earbuds look too good to pass up. I’m thinking these will end up being my dedicated gaming-on-the-go headphones for my Steam Deck and Retroid Pocket 5.
First snow
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 →
My Retroid Pocket 5 is here! This thing absolutely lives up to the hype. The OLED screen is just stellar.
Not terribly excited by this year’s initial LTT Store sales, but I needed a screwdriver and a few water bottles anyway so now is as good of a time as any to pick those up.
The Nintendo DS in 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
The Nintendo DS turns 20 today. I never owned the original model when I was younger, but a few friends of mine did. I was always fascinated by the hardware, but very few of the games my friends were playing like Mario, Pokémon, and Nintendogs actually interested me. I was busy playing Halo and Call of Duty on my Xbox in the mid-00’s. I was completely unaware of the all-time RPG greats like Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger (yes, I know it’s a re-release of the SNES original; I think the DS version adds some unique features to make it worth playing on DS), Radiant Historia, and anything Final Fantasy.