v3launchunit

i like snakes and a free palestine

aside from the aforementioned affection towards snakes, i also hold a great deal of fondness in my heart for hollow knight (i am extremely normal™ about collector), rain world (miros birds are the best creature i will not be accepting criticism on this), command and conquer red alert 2 (kirov reporting), in stars and time (one must imagine sisyphus stuck in a time loop), and about a million other things.
i played through slay the princess and spent the whole game pretty much completely ignoring her in favor of dicking around with the narrator (there is no good ending because the narrator always dies) and the voices (contrarian is the best one), which probably says a lot about me (i am aromantic asexual (this will not stop me from rebugging horny™ shit that i am tangentially interested in)).
fuck it i'm a girl now (still he/they tho)
i also like to draw and make games & shit.


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slitherpunk
@slitherpunk

since i've been tinkering with my 3ds more lately i noticed that the battery is not nearly as good as it used to be. but i thought "well at least the battery isn't too difficult to replace. just have to get a new one and take the back plate off and swap them." and i thought, gee, most stuff today sure doesn't make battery replacement easy. out of curiosity i check the difference on ifixit.

from: easy. simple. 4 steps.
scrolling through ifixit's 3ds battery replacement tutorial. there are 4 steps

to: how did we fucking get here
scrolling through ifixit's switch battery replacement tutorial. there are 21 steps


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in reply to @slitherpunk's post:

I wonder if this coincides at all with the switch feeling like... Less whimsical than old Nintendo products? Compared to the ds lineup, the switch feels way closer to just 'an android tablet with detachable controllers', both in presentation and I guess repairability

It really does feel this way, since entering recovery mode requires pressing a home button (like, the same signal as in phones or tablets with physical home button - not the "home" found on joycons). Oh, and of course aside from slight driver troubles, it runs android somewhat okay (just gotta treat it as a very low-end low-res tablet).

Well, from software development perspective it makes sense, unfortunately. It's easier to do releases on X platforms at once if all of them behave more or less the same.
It's easier to have "low-end tablet" target than to hire and maintain a dedicated nintendo-console variant of the game and hire devs for it. I mean, it also makes the case for porting mobile games to Switch, like The World Ends With You Final Remix is just android/ios Solo Remix ported to Switch (including its weird asset loading logic).

But on the other hand it kills creativity with unique handheld releases like Sims games for GBA and DS being its own thing created separately from the PC game :(

I was gonna say this is much easier than most devices with a battery but the fact you have to re-paste a heatsink (or be careful to keep the goop in reusable condition) and remove adhesive with IPA makes that... dubious. It's not as bad as most portable devices, but there are bad design choices for sure.