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Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Pra@sh.itjust.works to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 161 points 7 months ago

I often revere the people who can do smart shit.

I really shouldn’t. Using discord is dumb. Using discord for a switch emulator, while Nintendos lawyers are waking around with their cocks out is stupid.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 93 points 7 months ago

I've said this recently, but intelligence is domain specific. People just being generally "smart" is not a thing people should really care about.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 31 points 7 months ago

Yep, I've known specialists that are extremely good at their job but when you hear them talk about other stuff you sometimes wonder how they manage to tie their shoes in the morning.

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[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

Have you considered that the person you consider smart is focusing all their brain power on their projects and they don't have time to set up and maintain a website? That's what discord is for, an easy, quick and dirty community aggregate

[-] ProfessorNeurus@programming.dev 42 points 7 months ago

While there's truth in your words, there are alternatives that require little effort. Even a IRC channel would have been better.

Discord is not only a terrible bad application, it's the equivalent of writing posts on medium. If and when they decide to gatekeep your content, there's nothing you can do.

[-] Link@rentadrunk.org 20 points 7 months ago

Or matrix which is far more modern and user friendly than IRC.

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[-] 4am@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago

That’s not what discord is for if you are doing anything where a big corporation wants to muscle you around.

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[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 130 points 7 months ago

What I hate most about this is how they now moved to Rocket Chat.

Come on people. Use a forum. Get the message, finally. Do it!

[-] Crafter72@lemmy.world 59 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm pretty sure most of people who mainly use discord as their main social apps probably never touched forum-based internet.

Hosting your own forum is also better as you (the owner of the site) can still retrieve the msgs as long as you still have the access to the host server (so you can back them up in case shutting down, then going to resurfacing later).

Not to mention using discord is already risking yourself because of their shitty policy.

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[-] Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works 35 points 7 months ago

And it’s a million times better for people trying to troubleshoot.

1 forum post can solve many problems, rather than having to have each person ask in a support chat that’s not searchable.

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[-] bilb@lem.monster 104 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I hope Nintendo is able to make emulation illegal once and for all and end all this. People really shouldn't be allowed to run whatever software they want, they should only be allowed to run Microsoft Windows and the fun games they include on the bonus disc

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 7 months ago

You got me in the first half

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Think you forgot the /s

[-] bilb@lem.monster 49 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

/s is for cowards! I will never!

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 28 points 7 months ago

They trust people's intelligence

[-] mjhelto@lemm.ee 27 points 7 months ago

They really shouldn't...

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[-] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 79 points 7 months ago

Man fuck Nintendo at this point. WE ARE ALLOWED TO EMULATE, GET FUCKED

[-] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

I dead ass downloaded and set up yuza the second I heard it was shutting down

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[-] kadu@lemmy.world 72 points 7 months ago

I'll reinforce my comment from months ago: I have the latest version of Yuzu, the keys, the firmware, the Linux and Windows versions, and links to ROM sites, and I'll distribute them forever to whoever asks in my DMs. I packaged them in a simple .zip with easy to follow instructions.

That said, why simply not use Ryujinx? Even on the Steam Deck performance is very good nowadays. Super Mario Wonder plays at 60 FPS on the Deck (though you need to enable a very simple mod that disables some weird function the game runs, otherwise it drops to 30 FPS all the time). In fact, for AMD GPUs, you're doing yourself a huge favor by going Ryujinx over Yuzu and derivatives.

Ryujinx is solid, accurate and well known, it's a trusted emulator. The Yuzu forks are unknown, managed by non experienced people (one was quite literally created by a teenager with zero coding knowledge) and extremely ephemeral.

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago

Why 👏 is 👏 every 👏 word 👏 padded 👏 by 👏 emoticons 👏 ?

[-] Pra@sh.itjust.works 47 points 7 months ago

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[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago

I misread that and thought you were d*cking your sister.

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 33 points 7 months ago

They are emoji. Emoticons are these things :( :)

[-] LinusSexTips@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

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[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

You've never seen someone clap between every word trying to get their point across?

[-] thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

I have, but the clapping made me think their point wasn’t well thought out.

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[-] kurikai@lemmy.world 54 points 7 months ago

Good discord is trash.

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Discord is the antithesis to free web. Stop using it. I won't join any community using discord.

Oh yeah, and fuck Nintendo

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[-] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 7 months ago

Even beyond the point of "using discord". Nintendo is reaching harassment levels of assholism. Are they doing even worse that with Gaty Bowser?

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 39 points 7 months ago

They should just spin up their own Lemmy instance

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 7 months ago

Yeah, and a Matrix instance

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

They don't really need a chat though, do they? For their purpose of user-interfacing development and tracking, a forum would be much more useful when coupled with a code hosting system, no?

Can do bug reporting/tracking and development through the latter, while the former allows discoverable FAQ, dev-to-user and user-to-user support. With chat, the last point is just about impossible plus it's not discoverable.

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[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 26 points 7 months ago

You all should have stayed on IRC

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[-] disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Discord is a shit, always was shit. Shitty platform, shitty (electron) apps.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Why is this much of this a problem for them—discord shouldn't be an essential piece of the puzzle for an emulator project

Potentially completing someone's lemmy bingo card here, but it's relatively easy to self-host any tools you need

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[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 22 points 7 months ago

I don’t want to get victim blamey, but…

[-] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

If they REALLY want it to be like discord, why not use Revolt?

https://revolt.chat/

I don't understand.

One that really ticked me off was that "the legend of zelda ocarina of time" pc build "ship of harkinian".

I have never had such a tough time installing something. You have to do everything through their discord and it was a complete fucking mess.

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[-] lemmytellyousomething@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 7 months ago

Matrix is a better Discord.

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 24 points 7 months ago

Privacy-wise sure, but feature-wise it has some work to do.

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[-] rdri@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

"We will repeat in every sentence that we are not a for-profit emulator, we'll be fine!"

Yeah.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

googled Sudachi, and its GPL 3 but:

Contributions aren't allowed
Hosted on github (might be an issue tracker instead of the live repo tho)
Claims not to paywall features, before listing a bunch of features behind a paywall.

yeah that's gonna go real swell for them