Eh. LRG puts out dumb stuff all the time, but they’re not forcing anyone to buy their $200 Bill & Ted limited edition with stickers, soundtrack, and SteelBook or whatever. It’s not a company’s responsibility to sell you less stuff.

If you just want an easy way to play certain games on your Switch or PS4, they can be an easy way of doing so if you no longer have the console in question or if the market rate for original cartridges or discs has priced you out.

They also occasionally put out the first Western licensed version of certain Japanese games on original media, which I think is pretty worthwhile and something they should do more of. Provided they aren’t just CD-Rs.

No one needs to buy every random thing they put out.

They might just want key staff to stay off recruiters’ radar before development is complete. Doing a high-profile project with Nintendo will probably raise the profile of their studio quite a bit.

I have the 2017 Switch remaster, but I’m definitely going to pick this up too.

Once you realize that all this stuff is written by either young Gen Z copywriters or AI, everything begins to make more sense.

Not having a nose is probably an asset in a medieval war camp.

Up voted for recommending real Roland hardware. I have an MT-32, CM-32L, and SC-55mkII to cover all my compatibility bases.

I was bummed when Mega Man Mania was mysteriously canceled. I wish this were an official project, but I’ll take it. I just hope they don’t make any gameplay or (let’s call it) story modifications and stick to upgraded visuals only.

I really appreciate how fully realized the characters are, but the gore and gross-out elements, the just generally stressful situations, the flippant attitude toward humiliation, and the dystopian attitude toward death make the show a tolerance watch for me. I’ll watch the next season, I think it will be worth watching as always, and I enjoy the commentary. I just don’t think that I could say I’ll enjoy watching it as I normally use that word.

Yeah, this is a free-to-play arena game by Zynga. No thanks.

I would post more regularly, but my financial situation changes very slowly and there’s just not that much to talk about related to it without repeating myself. I don’t follow outside FIRE resources, so I can’t share anything of interest. I don’t even know if I could categorize myself as FIRE exactly since I won’t be able to retire in my 40s. 50s is likely… which used to be the normal age for retirement.

I mainly subscribe with the hope of hearing from other people.

As a reminder, Thomas Cruise Mapother IV is nearly 62 years old.

Such a waste. I didn’t know who he was, but no one should die over a couple hundred dollars of metal. Just 37.

I don’t know what that patch is, sorry.

I think you might have meant “epithet,” but since that is specifically about a word or phrase, “caricature” is probably the closest match.

The original, unmodified trilogy was a pretty archetypal hero’s journey for Luke (or rather, a series of journeys within the larger character journey). It was well done, reasonably cohesive, and had strong themes, owing in no small part to Gary Kurtz (producer for the first two movies), Marcia Lucas (editor on the first and third movies and uncredited contributing editor on the second), and Irvin Kershner (director for the second movie).

It began to fall off the rails a bit in the final movie when Lucas asserted more control, resulting in Kurtz’s departure, but ultimately in my judgment it stuck the thematic landing.

The rest were… ehhh…

We saw what happened with the prequel trilogy without those collaborators to rein him in and add actual human emotion. It’s not good, but it’s uncharitable to lump the original (again, unmodified) trilogy in with them.

The sequels were just completely incoherent.

Part of the problem is the unmodified originals have been effectively disappeared for an entire generation, so people who watch the “original trilogy” on disc or Disney+ are actually watching the atrocious CGI versions. It really does make a difference, in my opinion.

Just a note for anyone else, it’s also on GOG, DRM-free. $6 currently but it goes on sale.

https://www.gog.com/game/arcanum_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura

My screen is 5K, but I have it scaled up to the second largest size so my eyes don’t hate me.

Most of my simulations occur in my head. As in simulating what it will be like to be job-free someday, haha.

When I bought my house, though, I did figure out how to do all the amortization tables myself so that I could compare all the different rates and points and stuff, along with figuring out early payment payoff periods. l felt way more in control having the same level of information available to me that the mortgage broker did.

The movie is being developed and made in the closest possible collaboration with Shigeru Miyamoto.

Directed by Shigeru Miyamoto

Starring Shigeru Miyamoto as both Link and Zelda

It’s because kids people in their 20s are the ones making these games. At work I’m constantly asking them to increase their font size when they’re screen sharing.

It was 100% a crazy person on the street.

Also it says he was caught because he was yelling at people and harassing them on the street. That’s basically the exact profile of an unmedicated schizophrenic or similar in NYC.

Source: lived in Manhattan for many years.