dan

Ah didn’t spot the start button. Yeah I remember the label saying A and B despite only having one button.

Cool.

I had one of these with my Amiga, favourite joystick ever.

What’s megadrive about them? Is the pinout different?

I had one. Those controllers were incredibly cheap and plasticky.

The Mirror’s website is shockingly bad

Do they taste of borscht? I bet they taste of borscht.

That is fucking awesome.

I love the BBC, I hate seeing what it's been forced to turn into by threats from a succession of Conservative governments. I still pay my TV license despite pirating all my TV and movie content for years.

No part. The part that's clearly putin ball gargling behaviour is your commentary on it.

What in the russian propaganda bot fuckery is this?!

Web standards are public, discussed openly, heavily scrutinised (including by security researchers) and available for any browser developer to implement.

You want to go back to the days of Realplayer, Acrobat Reader, Flash, etc, when individual companies made their own privately developed closed source apps?

Lmao.

I mean. Sorta.

When you use some service you have some expectation that they’ll treat you fairly and predictably. Sure their Eula let’s them do whatever the fuck they want legally but that doesn’t change the fact that if they opt take certain actions (like arbitrary taking people’s usernames) then they risk losing user trust.

If the admin just took your username one day would you just quietly accept it? What if they edited or deleted your comments? Would you just shrug and say “well it’s their site they can do what they want” and just walk away?

Look what happened when Spez got caught editing posts on Reddit, for example. Massive user outcry.

Dude’s allowed to be annoyed about it.

Ok well, the modern web technology ecosystem is incredibly featureful and flexible, it allows a huge array of options for building rich interactive applications, all delivered to your browser on-demand in a few seconds.

Sure some of the technologies involved aren’t perfect (and I challenge you to find any system that feature-rich that doesn’t have a few dark corners), but there really no alternative option that comes close in terms of flexibility and maturity.