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  • I just feel bad for a lot of kids because maybe their phone or tablet has the game they want but often they are playing using just the touchscreen and that interface sucks for anything that requires joystick or button controls (where the touchscreen just has vague areas with pretend joysticks and buttons).

    It just does.

    I get that kids get used to it, but it’s like getting used to being kicked in the nuts when you have the option of not being kicked in the nuts.










  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3

    I started a New Game + on Switch 2, and while it doesn’t have a resolution or graphical update (please, Nintendo), it now never has a frame dip so it does feel better to play.

    This game is still probably my favorite of the last generation. I love these characters to death. It’s fun to see the story again from the start knowing where it’s going and to also to absolutely stomp everything because I started at level 88.

    But yeah, the story is awesome, and it makes me have real feelings in a way basically no other game has done. So good.







  • garretble@lemmy.worldOPtoApple@lemmy.worldLet’s talk iPadOS 26
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    27 days ago

    I’ve toggled that setting back and forth, and on the iPad at least, it’s not really honoring it. I’ll try to share a screenshot of that.

    I’m currently chalking that up to a beta bug that I assume will be handled better in the future.

    So, yeah, this is my iPad right now. I’d assume the dock would come back because there’s plenty of space. But it’s not. So, yeah, I’m thinking bug.



  • garretble@lemmy.worldOPtoApple@lemmy.worldLet’s talk iPadOS 26
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    Clamshell, no. (Edit: One thing about clamshell I didn’t think about until I just ran into it is FaceID. If you happened to have your iPad closed, you wouldn’t be able to do that. Not saying that’s the end of the world, but I just tried to log in to something on the second monitor and it needed my face.)

    Second monitor so far seems good! I’m on the M1 Pro, so if you have something newer than that it’d obviously feel even better. I haven’t done anything too extreme with it just yet. But I’m typing this on my external monitor with the iPad right now, and the windowing certainly feels better just because you have more space to put stuff.

    When you launch at app for the first time it’ll go full screen, but you just have to resize it, then it knows. And one thing don’t like about the windowing on the iPad itself right now is that the dock will disappear. On the monitor - so far - the dock has stayed visible, which I like. So that’s neat.