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This is a massive free content update for a 5 year old game and a $5 update for Switch 2 owners who want higher resolutions and more online features. No reason to try and find something to complain about just because it’s Nintendo.

Nice that they’re packing the bulk of the features into the free update instead of the Switch 2 edition! 5€ for the latter also seems like a very fair deal. Definitely getting this.

City: The Animation for me. I really wanted to like it and the animation style is great, but I just didn’t find it very funny.

There isn’t a single site I’d consider an alternative. These days I mostly order from specialized online shops for different product categories, so for example electronics from Alternate, video games from netgames etc. Price comparison sites are often a good place to find these shops. When available I buy directly from manufacturers as well, especially clothing. Occasionally I also order stuff from AliExpress.

I also found that I buy less things in general since ditching Amazon. I guess the additional hassle of buying through other shops makes it easier to realize I don’t actually need many of the things I might have otherwise purchased.

Yeah. I mean Crysis had been out for 3 years already. N64 graphics seemed ancient at that point.

Crazy how much airtime this game gets, for what it is. Seems like we’ll know about every aspect of the game in excruciating detail by the time it releases. The first one was already twice as long as it needed to be, but I guess as long as it makes Sakurai happy…

That strategy sounds way too advanced for Trump’s mind, so I really don’t think so.

I was gifted that book, but I admit I haven’t really read it. I do miss Iwata-era Nintendo. It wasn’t perfect, but it felt far less “soulless corporation” than it does now. Having an actual game developer leading a gaming company is definitely better than a random corpo. And Iwata himself seemed like a decent person.

Cool concept for sure! Gave the demo a short go, but it seems like it’s really just a tech-demo, where you can place some buildings on the world map but with no actual gameplay.

They basically can’t be compared, because there is no other standalone VR/MR device anywhere close to the price point. Samsung is planning to release a competitor at some point though.

Interesting that they went with another Pro rather than a cheaper “Apple Vision”. I can’t imagine this will sell. The buyers of the first gen will hardly spend another 3,5k for an incremental performance upgrade (which is used for… watching movies and rendering sharper text apparently?) and I don’t see anything that would attract new people either.

So you think with Harris in power in 2025, there would also be unidentified policemen roaming the streets, disappearing non-white people into unmarked vans? There would still be military deployed to cities across the US due to a fictional crime wave? Universities would still be denied funding for refusing to discriminate based on race or gender? I don’t think so.

If you really can’t see any difference in the methods employed and the scale of repression between the recent (!) democrat and republican governments, I don’t know what to tell you. Bringing up events from 50+ years ago like the red scare seems quite irrelevant.

You’re probably right that fundamental change is needed. But you should still think about under which president those changes are easier to achieve. Hint: It’s probably not the one who’s perfectly willing to send the military after his political enemies. Also remember that if you don’t elect another president, everybody else still will. The system won’t improve by you not participating in it.

This guy, but you probably wouldn’t want to honor him.

Yes, quite a lot. I’ve never actually been to America though.

How would we handle cases of tyranny where the government controls all militia?

How are you handling the case of tyranny right now? Haven’t seen the guns make a ton of difference so far. I don’t see how they would either, as it would be going against the largest military in the world.

The Hyperion Cantos, as it’s my favorite sci-fi series that I think would work well as a TV series (not so much as a movie, which is actually rumored to happen).

Haven’t really noticed any change personally. What game was it btw? Having a positive experience with a game that is being negatively reviewed doesn’t necessarily mean it was review bombed. Especially when it comes to bugs and technical issues, which often won’t affect every single player.