Yes. I very much remember it being uncontroversial to call the N64 retro in 2010.

Graf Zahl has always been a bit of an ass, but did he just stop caring about the quality of his work?

But unknowingly, gently, they keep getting pulled towards a trodden path and if this goes on long enough we’ll have like 10 genres to choose from and that’s it.

Usually when people think in genres instead of artists, genres get more granular, so we end up with hundreds of more new words that describe minute differences. Like, look at EDM, a genre that has never really cared about individual artists. They’ll consider a 5BPM difference to be a different genre.

Given all the different “microgenres” that are popping up now, usually by younger artists, I think that tracks with music today.

As someone who isn’t necessarily big on the notion streamlining is “objectively” good game design… That more or less began to be disposed of the minute we had the technology, minus a few now-niche genres that rely on it. It was gradual, but mass market games as early as Zork in 1981, had save schemes.

Makes sense (I think what put that in my head was someone advising against booting Windows from SD Card on Steam Deck.)

Sounds like it could be a cool novelty for a little while, but ultimately it’s a waste of SD Card to make them for every game you have. Also, isn’t it not great for SD Cards to constantly read or write from them?

Pixel phones cost several times what my phone costed.

I think there is an AI bubble, but the aftermath will be like the dot com bubble: the internet didn’t go away, but a bunch of businesses that were only ever valuable because they were on the internet did.

OpenAI won’t go away, but a bunch of companies whose products are pretty much wrappers for ChatGPT will.

I believe the only reason adult games aren’t as popular in Western countries as they are in Japan (and I think elsewhere in Asia?) is because there’s a stereotype that they’re low quality, which came about because of the ESRB (not sure about other countries’ rating systems) basically making it so there was no money in it in a pre-digital download world.

They come for the things nobody would be caught dead defending (often even people who privately engage in it) first. Look at how during the thing with payment processors and porn games, some people were saying they didn’t mind if it were just the rape games being banned. Those are used as justification for speech restrictions to the public.

(I don’t even think KiwiFarms should be legal personally, Chris Chan’s story should be considered evidence enough that they’re a harassment forum)

4chan’s creativity died when the first Soyjak was posted.

That lessens the advantage of public transit over cars though

“No ethnic nationalists”

LMMS and a cheap MIDI keyboard

Now it’s FL Studio, the same MIDI keyboard, a guitar I already had but got out of storage and only sorta know how to play, and a Rocksmith Real Tone Cable

Personally I think Zelda is better off being live action than the kind of style Illumination/DreamWorks is known for.

Other than the Toon Link games the series has always had a more anatomical art style that is rarely seen in Western animated film.

The problem with Lemmy is that the demographic that uses it is too specific: nerdy, atheist, college educated (usually in computers) Gen X and early Millennial left-wing political hobbyists.

Like, there’s a reason the one of the only specific media franchises that can sustain an active community here is Star Trek.

It’s people who run apologia for anything the Chinese government or even Chinese business does.

Meanwhile I remember that TikTok helped Trump’ s youth outreach campaign with the message they gave when US access was restored, so they’ve already signalled they’re not on my side.

I like SMW better myself (actually not a single franchise entry on that list is my favorite in the series) but it doesn’t have the kind of unanimous praise SMB3 does.

I’m going to take this as “games that I never see anyone question their quality.” (I don’t even like all these games myself)

• Sonic 3 & Knuckles

• Kirby Planet Robobot

• Doom 2016

• Street Fighter III: Third Strike

• Pac-Man

• Balatro

• Steins;Gate

• The House in Fata Morgana

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

• Gran Turismo 4

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

• Mega Man X

• Mega Man X4

• Super Mario Bros. 3

• Hollow Knight

• Bloodborne

• Elden Ring

• Balder’s Gate 3

That wasn’t even true? More evidence that the panic about porn addiction is a psyop.