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the whole thing was basically held together with duct tape at one point, and the shell’s paint is peeling

Yeah, sounds common on 3DS. I have a Majora’s Mask edition n3DS XL, its paint started flaking on edges for normal use only a year or so from getting it.

Got a free new shell (correct golden colour!) from support back then, so there was that at least. After that I encased my 3DS in a clear rubber protection so the paint doesn’t wear off again. But those rubber things don’t age well and start getting an ugly yellow hue after a while.

I just checked, and if the wikipedia page on switch 2 cards is correct, there are only two types of switch 2 cartridges.

Key cards are not meant to have anything on them but the key.

Standard cards are 64GB and thus expensive. All of them.

This is terrible. Still, never buying a key card.

There are stories about people having specific versions of a song, or even making original music that they stored on Apple devices, and those devices automagically “identified” them, removed them unprompted and replaced them with something else from the cloud.

Personally that’s why I don’t trust services that advertise “just working” and doing everything for you. I want control over what I use.

I wasn’t aware they were doing this one but I have the other Switch R Type Dimensions (with 1 and 2)… It’s about 200MB. Which is not surprising since it’s just the original 2D games with sprites replaced with (decent, but still relatively simple) 3D models.

If the smallest cards on Switch 2 are so much more expensive that those useless key cards, it’s ridiculous.

I don’t want them for any game, but for a small game like that, key cards are even worse than usual. What’s even the point of going for a fake physical release for a retro game like this?

The Game Boy in particular was from Gunpei Yokoi’s design philosophy, “lateral thinking with withered technology”.

Honestly not a bad choice, especially for the time. Even if it was late in GB’s life, pokémon would have never worked on a system that eats 6 batteries in 3 hours.

I consider the best “New” to be Wii by far. Good challenge, good level diversity, the right kind of chaotic fun in multiplayer.

The first NSMB was still very basic, and U was boring and uninspired. New Super Luigi U was the best part of U, at least it tried something, but too little too late.

NSMB2 felt like the worst example of “we need a Mario game now, pile up random shit until we have one”. I mean, they tried to have a gimmick in this one, putting it everywhere in theming and it’s… Collecting more coins than usual? And even then they don’t do anything with it.

By the way, of course everyone is allowed their opinion, but… 30 years later, still team SMB3.

I had those. I am pretty sure they were huge because everything was mostly uncompressed.

I remember using a program to extract game data. Every environment was a literal bitmap image the size of the area, and there were additional bitmaps of the same size for each, where pixel colours were used by the engine to check where characters could walk, what part of the scenery is overhead, etc.

It was cool looking into the adaptive music though. Every track was split in multiple bits of a couple seconds, so for example if the battle theme needed to end it could branch into a specific ending variation seamlessly. I don’t think a lot of games did that back then.

I liked Wonder. It’s a decent attempt at refreshing 2D Mario, and some of the level gimmicks were quite fun. I think they’ve tried to recapture the effect of “every level a new idea” in 3D World, though I’d agree they were not as succesful in this one.

It’s a lot better than NSMB U IMO, that one was incredibly bland (especially after NSMB Wii, that one was great).

Some people even think that adding things like “don’t hallucinate” and “write clean code” to their prompt will make sure their AI only gives the highest quality output.

Arthur C. Clarke was not wrong but he didn’t go far enough. Even laughably inadequate technology is apparently indistinguishable from magic.

I don’t even use gmail professionally and I was still using that.

Some (terribly implemented) services don’t allow changing e-mail on their accounts, and I have stuff I subscribed to aeons ago with a mail I am not using anymore.

Not that I can’t connect directly to that old crappy mail provider, but it’s very inconvenient.

Most Wii games used single layer DVDs, but it had a couple Dual-Layer DVD games, obviously still a lot smaller than Blu-ray. Including Smash, Xenoblade, Metroid Prime Trilogy, and also that Metroid game that shall not be named.

It was not as transparent because it required a system update to support those… and because some Wiis with faulty disc drives had to be replaced because they couldn’t read them at all. I had to send mine to support.

In the 90s they put random English phrases instead of translating.

Bad example. The original line was already about shorts. It also became a meme in the series and lots of later episodes have some guy being enthusiastic about shorts around the begining of the game.

https://legendsoflocalization.com/articles/pokemon-comfy-shorts-japanese/

It’s true this sounds a bit more random in English than Japanese, but it was an attempt at translating it.

Your cat’s data belongs to the people, comrade!

Maybe they expected a slightly less angry response, but they probably don’t mind. They don’t care if their model looks bad, they definitely want it to be a talking point before everything else.

Like the recent article in Wall Street Journal dunking on their stupid “vending machine”. Or when they publish studies about how training the model to make bad code on purpose turns it into literally Hitler. They want people to talk about it.

Technically only the first four generations are set in “Japan”.

The ones after them are set in fantasy New York, France, Hawaii, Great Britain, and Spain.

I have spent a good amount of time on world, and I agree.

Maybe I haven’t understood your point but it sounds like you’re describing people both acting maliciously and being stupid about it, so I don’t see it as a case of Hanlon’s razor.

Exchanging the item for another one that’s cheaper, even if it’s only $6 total, is still dishonest. The fact that it may not even be worth it for them in the end doesn’t change the fact it was an attempt to mislead. They were listing a product, and delivered another one.

Hmm. Looks like it.

The wikipedia article on Homo floresiensis is wrong then. It quotes another article that says the lawyers were representing the Tolkien estate, but that article too was quoting Alloway, who apparently got it wrong. Unlike the Guardian they probably didn’t bother to check and correct the article.

For some reason, the Tolkien estate had to tell paleontologists who nicknamed an homo species “hobbits” they had to stop doing so.

But a corporation is committing pure evil under the name “Palantir” or “Anduril” and, nevermind any kind of legal action, you can’t even hear a strong word from the estate.

I guess some targets are easier than others.