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StarTopic Nintendo General Discussion |ST4 Jan. 2022| Resurrections

The next Switch model will be called...

  • Nintendo Switch 2

    Votes: 40 23.5%

  • Nintendo Switch Pro

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Switch 4k

    Votes: 13 7.6%

  • Nintendo Switch U

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Switch +

    Votes: 11 6.5%

  • Nintendo Switch Max

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • Nintendo Switch Up

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • New Nintendo Switch

    Votes: 5 2.9%

  • Nintendo Switch Advance

    Votes: 11 6.5%

  • Super Nintendo Switch

    Votes: 53 31.2%

  • Nintendo Switch Super

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • Nintendo Switchxty Four

    Votes: 4 2.4%

  • Nintendo Switchcube

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Swiitch

    Votes: 1 0.6%

  • Nintendo Change

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nintendo Modify

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nintendo Adjust

    Votes: 2 1.2%

  • Nintendo Wii U 2

    Votes: 6 3.5%

  • Other (Please specify)

    Votes: 7 4.1%

  • Switch Plus

    Votes: 5 2.9%
  • Total voters
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Skittzo said:
Yeah I might have to start using that.

Also I've been using all purpose flour instead of cake flour, that might be an issue.
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You probably don't specifically need cake flour, but maybe the quality of your AP flour is not so great.

What kind of cakes? Standard butter cakes? Sponge cakes?
 
Nathan Little said:
Daily reminder, if you find yourself kongnapped by peg legged crocodiles wearing pirate gear and need saving, Diddy and Dixie are the right couple for the job! 👍
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But what if I find myself kongnapped by a mad scientist crocodile, taken to !Canada, and Diddy's been nabbed, as well?

Dixie is one thing, but I really don't feel comfortable leaving my fate in the hands of a literal big baby.
 
Nathan Little said:
Daily reminder, if you find yourself kongnapped by peg legged crocodiles wearing pirate gear and need saving, Diddy and Dixie are the right couple for the job! 👍
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meanwhile, at Nintendo, a game with reptilian pirates for villains is in development

Miyamoto-san: Hm, this game really needs some compelling and capable protagonists. But who could that be?

Nervous Intern: er... M-m-m-m-miyamoto-san, we could bring in the K-k-k-kongs.

Miyamoto's eyes widen, and he has flashbacks to happier days spent eating fish and chips and drinking room temperature flat beer with the pasty-skinned, snaggly-toothed Rare staff. A single tear rolls down his cheek.

Miyamoto: Kongs? KONGS? NEVER AGAIN I TELL YOU, NEVER AGAIN. Scrap the whole game.

Nervous intern: But sir!

Miyamoto: DO AS I SAY tips computer out of window
 
Bokuringo said:
Speaking of Anime games, Netmarble seems to be making an open-world Seven Deadly Sins game subtitled Origin.

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Too bad its Seven Deadly Sins. Series took an absolute nose dive like none other :(

The game itself looks good though.
 
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TreIII said:
But what if I find myself kongnapped by a mad scientist crocodile, taken to !Canada, and Diddy's been nabbed, as well?

Dixie is one thing, but I really don't feel comfortable leaving my fate in the hands of a literal big baby.
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But he can bounce on water. I can't even do that.

MisterSpo said:
meanwhile, at Nintendo, a game with reptilian pirates for villains is in development

Miyamoto-san: Hm, this game really needs some compelling and capable protagonists. But who could that be?

Nervous Intern: er... M-m-m-m-miyamoto-san, we could bring in the K-k-k-kongs.

Miyamoto's eyes widen, and he has flashbacks to happier days spent eating fish and chips and drinking room temperature flat beer with the pasty-skinned, snaggly-toothed Rare staff. A single tear rolls down his cheek.

Miyamoto: Kongs? KONGS? NEVER AGAIN I TELL YOU, NEVER AGAIN. Scrap the whole game.

Nervous intern: But sir!

Miyamoto: DO AS I SAY tips computer out of window
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This kinda reminds me of this.

www.google.com

Composer Kirkhope on His Embarrassing Meeting With Miyamoto; “He Couldn’t Tell What I Was Saying”

Acclaimed video game composer Grant Kirkhope shared some hilarious details about his meeting with Miyamoto back in 1997.
www.google.com www.google.com
 
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hologram said:
You probably don't specifically need cake flour, but maybe the quality of your AP flour is not so great.

What kind of cakes? Standard butter cakes? Sponge cakes?
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This one was a blue velvet cake. Made with vinegar and baking soda as a rising agent, also vinegar+milk as a buttermilk substitute.

But I made another one not long ago that I now can't remember, it also wound up much too dense for some reason. Can the quality of flour affect how it rises in the oven?
 
Skittzo said:
I wish. My cakes look great and taste great but lately they've all been a bit stodgy, I'm not sure why they haven't been puffing up much. No matter the recipe I'm using.
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Did you change something (like a new stand mixer, or brand of baking powder)? If not, I would guess your oven is starting to run cooler than before.
 
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Day 4 of the Nintendo Online Store still being down for maintenance.

I know I'm only disappointing myself when it's not gonna get the overhaul I think it is with a massive restock of everything, but it is kinda curious, right?

Especially in hindsight with 50% off NES controllers for Switch
 
Skittzo said:
This one was a blue velvet cake. Made with vinegar and baking soda as a rising agent, also vinegar+milk as a buttermilk substitute.

But I made another one not long ago that I now can't remember, it also wound up much too dense for some reason. Can the quality of flour affect how it rises in the oven?
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If you're using baking soda + an acid as your leavening, then your rise can be inhibited if you wait too long to get the batter into the oven, of if you overmix a little.

Flour type also matters but the effects are non-obvious.

Science-y stuff: baking soda + an acid start reacting as soon as you put them together, making gas. If you overstir the batter you can knock the gas out, if you wait to put it in the oven the reaction can run its course and deflate before you set it in the oven. Double acting baking powder on the other hand has both baking soda and an acid combined already, and they don't start reacting till they get hot - so they don't start rising till you stick them in the oven.

Cake flour has less protein so it's more tender a cake, but also less strong. That can mean that your cake is delicate, and collapses (making it dense) OR that it gets a big rise because it takes less air to make it bubble up huge (because cake flour is physically less heavy).

The trick with a rise is to time it so that the cake remains soft long enough for the gas and water inside to expand and make bubbles, and then to have the protein structure set before those bubbles collapse. If the rise happens before the cake can set, it will be flat - like if the temp is too low, or the leavening happened in the bowl instead of in the oven, or if the batter was too heavy for the amount of leavening, or too light and you got a blow out.. If the cake sets before the rise, it will also be flat - if the oven is too hot, or the amount of leavening was too small.

TL;DR: if it's a cake recipe you've used before, with ingredients and equipment you've used before, it's probably your oven running a little cold.
 
oldpuck said:
Science-y stuff: baking soda + an acid start reacting as soon as you put them together, making gas. If you overstir the batter you can knock the gas out, if you wait to put it in the oven the reaction can run its course and deflate before you set it in the oven. Double acting baking powder on the other hand has both baking soda and an acid combined already, and they don't start reacting till they get hot - so they don't start rising till you stick them in the oven.
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the gist of this is correct, but out of my personal interest I feel compelled to point out that baking powder does both: it partially reacts when mixed and reacts again when it reaches temperature. that's why it's often labeled as "double acting"
 
Ozzie said:
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Tools engineer sounds like it's for editors or plug-ins right. Just a web developer btw. Dunno if there's much to conclude here, they could either be early and setting things up or just trying to improve their workflow. Btw I saw a Radical Fish (CrossCode devs) stream and looked like they were developing a level editor for their next game, but they had already showed working mechanics before, so this may be a slightly more advanced stage

Found this on the Bungie site:

Bungie Blog Post said:
What is a "tool" exactly? When I talk about being a "tools" engineer and working on "tools", I'm referring to any application that's used to develop the game and isn't the game itself. This could be anything from the editors you might be familiar with from engines like Unreal or Unity, to scripts that help you dig into why something isn't working, to applications used to build and deploy new versions of the game as it's being worked on.
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if they're using a proprietary engine, which they probably are, a tools engineer could come on at any point in development. hell, even if they're not

if they want to expedite their animation workflow, for example, hire another tools engineer. that could happen at any point of full production
 
Raccoon said:
here's a tip, sodium bicarb/baking powder expires and gets weaker
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This I didn't know but makes sense. I've been mostly using baking soda and an acid lately though. I'm guessing baking soda also expires?
oldpuck said:
If you're using baking soda + an acid as your leavening, then your rise can be inhibited if you wait too long to get the batter into the oven, of if you overmix a little.

Flour type also matters but the effects are non-obvious.

Science-y stuff: baking soda + an acid start reacting as soon as you put them together, making gas. If you overstir the batter you can knock the gas out, if you wait to put it in the oven the reaction can run its course and deflate before you set it in the oven. Double acting baking powder on the other hand has both baking soda and an acid combined already, and they don't start reacting till they get hot - so they don't start rising till you stick them in the oven.

Cake flour has less protein so it's more tender a cake, but also less strong. That can mean that your cake is delicate, and collapses (making it dense) OR that it gets a big rise because it takes less air to make it bubble up huge (because cake flour is physically less heavy).

The trick with a rise is to time it so that the cake remains soft long enough for the gas and water inside to expand and make bubbles, and then to have the protein structure set before those bubbles collapse. If the rise happens before the cake can set, it will be flat - like if the temp is too low, or the leavening happened in the bowl instead of in the oven, or if the batter was too heavy for the amount of leavening, or too light and you got a blow out.. If the cake sets before the rise, it will also be flat - if the oven is too hot, or the amount of leavening was too small.

TL;DR: if it's a cake recipe you've used before, with ingredients and equipment you've used before, it's probably your oven running a little cold.
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They've been new recipes and it very well could be timing of getting it in the oven, I don't have enough cake trays so I've had to put them in in batches and the reaction sorta dying out before it gets into the oven can absolutely explain why the second batch was so dense.

Not sure about the first one though, I used a slightly larger pan than the recipe called for so I adjusted the cooking time to be ~3-4 minutes shorter but it still came out really dense. Maybe I also needed to up the temperature for that one.
 
Skittzo said:
This I didn't know but makes sense. I've been mostly using baking soda and an acid lately though. I'm guessing baking soda also expires?
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sorry, baking soda is sodium bicarb

I think other suggestions are probably more likely, especially the time between mixing and baking
 
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I may have ordered Pokemon Legends: Arceus even though i didn’t plan to 😬
 
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Barely Able said:
Someone with dev experience tell me if this is good or bad as far as stages of development. Doesn’t seem like a good thing for the game releasing any time soon.
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Nothing really good or bad about it per se. There could a lot of reasons they are looking for these type of job openings. Quite frankly I’m baffled why people are so interested and invested in following Retro’s hires, whether they hire or not. It does nothing but make people nervous and ask these sorts of questions or declare the game is not going to be finished until 2030. The worrying starts though if these positions consistently become vacant upon hiring and there starts to rumours of product changing in scope.
 
Let's get back to talking about Legendary Asses

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Mr_No_U said:
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It's funny, Sbarro is one of those mythical restaurants that seem to only exist in airports (at least that's the only place I've ever seen one). It's also one of those that always LOOKS amazing (probably because you're super hungry and have been traveling all day) and then is extremely medium when you actually eat it.
 
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