I’ll have to try that sometime.

I’ll guess Metal Gear Solid but there are plenty of other bangers in the PS1 library.

That one was a delightful surprise. I enjoyed it thoroughly because I’ve always liked digital pinball as well.

I’ll admit that 100%ing (or rather “100%”ing it - iykyk) it can get pretty tiresome, but I actually found that the backtracking wasn’t too bad because the castle map was so good. For some reason I was able to remember a lot of routes in it, but I couldn’t find my way through the later games for the life of me without checking the map screen every five seconds.

There really isn’t a remaster, just ports. There’s very little to improve.

I think there may have been some voice re-recordings here or there, but otherwise most versions are pretty much the same. I think the Xbox 360 Live Arcade version is missing some unimportant FMVs and some other minor details, but it’s still completely decent.

It was a secret unlockable in the PSP game Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles with an added character and other stuff, but then you have to deal with the PSP emulation or whatever.

I’d suggest either emulating the original or getting it as a PSOne Classic on PlayStation Store unless some other route is more convenient.

Absolutely yes. It’s timelessly good. I played a bunch of the post-SotN Castlevanias on GBA and such and even with the more advanced systems and everything, none of them hit the same. It’s insane how well they nailed it on their first go.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The game so good it created the term “Metroidvania” even though the formula was basically “Metroid”.

Fair enough. It’s got some solid spectacle so I’d be down for a big screen rerelease. Pity nobody actually liked it enough to warrant one. Oh well.

It does everything it can to improve the book and a lot of those decisions are phenomenal. But it’s still not a good movie. I just love it dearly.

Ready Player One. It’s a terrible movie that adapts a terrible book, but for some reason the vibe just entertains me and makes me feel comfortable. I don’t know either.

I get the impression they aren’t. I’m just a little disappointed. But I can imagine several reasons they wouldn’t.

It may not be in quality of tracking but efficiency, or something like that. It’s definitely going to be cheaper too.

The only disappointing part of the entire announcement was that they weren’t making any play at all for the MR space. I could see that depth sensing and SLAM on the environment to map space and anchor objects would be a lot of work, but it would be a major win for them to be the first company to successfully put a PC on your face instead of a phone/tablet (like Apple Vision Pro and Galaxy XR), and for it to be Linux, to boot.

The monochrome makes it track better. There’s also an expansion port under the nose gap that will let them put in color passthrough cameras later if enough people want it.

Hear hear. The Game Gear was basically a portable Sega Master System only better. Can you imagine Nintendo putting out a whole-ass portable NES? They didn’t have the balls.

To this day, one of my favorite gifts I ever received, way back in Christmas of checks notes 360 B.C.

This is why I don’t watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The writing is brilliant, hilarious satire that I think America is far too stupid not to take as an instruction manual.

They run a lab. They should know better.

I take it as shorthand for “without known harmful chemicals, probably, also, we think you’re an idiot”.

I knew someone who ate a chemical once and they died so it must be true.

I hate the “chemicals bad” nonsense. It’s ignorant fearmongering. Meanwhile I eat chemicals for breakfast.