TRDR Pocket's release & Soulja Boy's recent stunt

Recently, there was a stunt in which Soulja Boy claimed to be a CEO of Atari when that wasn't the case. Some evidence included the fact that he invested in cryptocurrency stuff and the Atari of the present isn't the same as the Atari of the past in which the current Atari is involved in casino, hotel, cryptocurrency and even NFT stuff so the gaming part is like less interesting than before for us to take a look at. The only legacy about Atari of the present is the name and the other games tweeted about by them like Roller Coaster Tycoon series for instance had the past publishers. I don't know if he didn't mean to make a claim like that or not but then, there's another problem that angered people including us, the regards to one of the content creator's review of TRDR Pocket.

It seems that Rerez had ordered the TRDR Pocket recently online but for the sake of privacy, I won't link his tweet about it here. What I can do is anticipate his review but there's no way to know if his copy will arrive or not at first.

About the TRDR Pocket the female content creator reviewed, it seems like there are tons of flaws to begin with:

1. The inclusion of touchscreen isn't a good way over the design of the console as it may seem weird in some areas like using touch controls for gaming or typing on on-screen keyboard. At least, the Switch tablet design with touchscreen is as good as a real tablet device. Even the DS and 3DS have better design than the TRDR Pocket when it comes to on-screen keyboard that you can input with the stylus. So, the flaw is about design conflict.
   
2. The inclusion of 4G on a portable console like TRDR Pocket: Sure, it's Android based but obviously, game console emulators are what fit the console the most and if the mobile game doesn't have traditional controller support, you're out of luck. Having 4G/5G on portable game consoles like PS Vita is sort of stupid enough and it should be stupid on TRDR Pocket as well since it's shaped like a portable game console and mobile gamers are already better off with playing mobile games that require internet connection on their smartphone/tablet.
   
3. Vertical screen oriented games are problematic on this device that you're better off playing them on your smartphone/tablet. The Switch console is already a better bet when it comes to vertically-oriented games that you can turn the tablet to vertical mode and still attach the Joy-Cons or play it with other controllers. Sure, it's different than playing vertically-oriented games on mobile as not all vertically-oriented games on mobile support controllers. But in the case of TRDR Pocket, the touchscreen as a workaround is what feeds Soulja Boy some stupidity.
4. The lack of bumper/trigger buttons on TRDR Pocket makes you want to use the touchscreen feature as the workaround which seems stupid when it comes to games that make use of more than the 6 standard buttons the console has. The proper workaround will be to use two of the buttons as bumper/trigger buttons but what if there are games that use BOTH bumper and trigger buttons besides the four standard buttons? It's an obvious problem when it comes to playing such  games on PS1/PS2/GC/DC emulators. The same goes for other AAA-like games on mobile.
5. Price: It's an audacity to overcharge people additional money for an Android-based game console like TRDR Pocket. You could have bought the Switch, Switch Lite or Xbox Series S with $300+ instead of the mediocrity that is TRDR Pocket.
   

It's one big stupidity after another from Soulja Boy and even his defensive idiots continued to add more fuel of stupidity by defending him. I guess that he continues to do stupid shit like this to attract more negative attention ever since a few years ago so it looks like no lessons have been learnt whatsoever. As this time of writing, he had already changed his Twitter bio like he corrected his mistake but his reputation remains questionable to this day. Lastly, the TRDR Pocket console isn't that great to begin with and I won't be stupid enough to buy it after having seen that content creator's review.

Beatmania IIDX 29 Cast Hour Controversial Feature - Paid Loot Box Feature for Random Patterns

Indeed, I wrote the blog articles about the new features of Beatmania IIDX such as the Lightning Model and the controversial video-capture saving feature in Beatmania IIDX Bistrover which is present in Lightning Model cabinets only. The upcoming sequel comes with another minor controversy, a paid lootbox feature for Random patterns. It's controversial but not as controversial as the paid lootbox for character card feature in Sega's Ongeki.

At least, in Sega's Ongeki, you're going to need character cards or something as part of the gameplay in which you'll move the characters left and right and dodging projectiles coming at them in addition to the notes. It's basically a rhythm game with additional gameplay features but it comes with its own controversy I already mentioned such as a paid lootbox feature for character cards. Why the need for physical character cards for a rhythm game in the arcades?

At the current time, the upcoming sequel to Beatmania IIDX 28 already had a location test last week and it's theme this time is video livestreaming. Overall, that's like two minor controversial features present in Beatmania IIDX 29 when it comes out in the arcades sometime this year. So about the paid lootbox for Random patterns, it is exclusive to Lightning Model cabinets just like the Pay-To-Screen-Capture feature from Beatmania IIDX 28.

Windows 11 reveal event from June

About two months ago, the new successor to Windows 10 was revealed by Microsoft with new features although it has the UI taken from the cancelled Windows 10X. There were ups and downs for that event when I tuned in to it online on Twitter and I made a couple of tweets about it.

• Amazon App Store: Currently, there's the Your Phone app on Windows 10 which supports Samsung-branded Android devices for various features. The downside to this introduction is the usage of Amazon App Store as opposed to Google Play. Indeed, certain Amazon smart devices cannot be trusted over privacy issues and there's no knowing if even Amazon App Store can be trusted or not. Using Amazon App Store, you'll be able to install Android and use apps on Windows 11. The good news is that Android apps can be sideloaded.
  
• Xbox gaming integration: As part of the new Microsoft Store, the Xbox-related games will be in the list that you can play on Windows 11. The inconvenient thing from the event was the audacity to mention, "It just works". Sure, Fallout 76 was a disaster but recently, there happens to be new games coming in from ID Software.
• New Microsoft Teams experience
• Steam and Epic Games Store games on Microsoft Store: For now, the article from Softpedia may remain like an announcement-level as I don't know if Steam and EGS games will be part of the Microsoft Store or not.
• UI Changes: The entirely of the UI is based on Windows 10X's but with many changes. The taskbar buttons are moved to the center by default but you can configure position for them to retain the traditional positioning.
• System Requirements: Ever since the Windows Vista days, the system requirements looked harsh with 1GB of RAM and above for the sake of some of the cool looking features such as the Aero transparency for the UI and the new UI animations that are still here today. There's also the 3D window switching feature with Windows+Tab key but that was changed in Windows 8 onwards. Speaking of Windows 8, some CPU features are needed if you want to use it so CPUs without them are out of luck for that. In case of the upcoming Windows 11, its system requirements are a little bit harsher than before with the requirement of 4GB RAM, TPM 2.0 chip, a 64-Bit CPU, HD display, DirectX 12 support for video cards and 64GB of storage.
• OS Post-Install: The annoying thing for Home Edition users is that the internet connection is needed to complete the setup. I'm not sure if the workaround is there or not in case you want to use the local account.

Windows 11 will be coming out sometime in October.