I agree. However, thinking about it, some of my favorite albums and movies were made before I was born, so it seems fitting that another form of media would also have fans of a particular work who were born after it was created. It’s a nice feeling to know that the things we enjoy today will be enjoyed by future…

The problem is mostly that people who test don’t typically test leveling, especially in that mid-range. Testers (at least those who do it for free because they’re given access) tend to focus on new areas, which means either low-level new race/class content or top level content. The leveling experience gets overlooked,…

I don’t think they’ll be able to please people with vanilla. Either they make it just like it was, in which case there’s a lot of totally broken specs/talents and everything was way more of a hassle than it should be, or they do some kind of partly updated version that ultimately won’t be vanilla.

He did though. He directed the justice department to charge all people crossing the border as criminals. Since the previous policy is to remove kids from those who have criminal records, all the kids are removed now.

The policy was to only separate kids if their parents were charged with crimes. It was to stop people like MS-13 from coming in with kids. However, the Trump administration implemented a policy to charge all people who cross the border as criminals. So, all of the children are now stripped from their parents.

The entire 2600 catalog is literally like 25 MB. That’s NTSC and PAL. The games are 2-16 KB each and there’s less than 1000 total. The 7800 catalog is around the same size, since there were fewer games, but some of those topped 100 KB each. The 5200 catalog is quite a bit less than either of those.

Oh no! That’s terrible! I hope he gets well soon. I’ve always felt a kinship with Mike, due to us both being dads around the same age and me not living far from where he does... in addition to our apparent shared urge to try the latest weird snack foods. I’m not sure what else to say other than he’s my favorite…

It won’t happen again. The last time they extended them, the Internet was in it’s infancy (it was over a year before Napster) and copyright laws were boring things the average person didn’t care or think about.

Ralph Baer was the Father of Video Games, anyway.

Yep. I’m by no means a Darkest Dungeon expert, I’m just a little ways into it too. I gave up on the PC version a while ago and picked it up again on Switch and I’m kind of addicted now. Once I realized that losing characters isn’t really the end and to just press on, I started to enjoy it more. Heck, losing (even…

I mean you still go “oh no”, especially when you have invested more in a character and you know replacing them will be tricky. However, if you want to not get super frustrated, just accept that a lot of them are going to die or become basically unusable. It’s just part of the game. The constant death and difficulty…

Yes, they’re expendable. You should go in expecting that most of your characters are going to die or go insane. However, a few will bubble up to the top and you’ll get some who survive and you can use to progress. Some of these will also die and go insane. That’s okay. They’re all expendable. The undying aspect of the…

If you were 5-6 hours in, you’re not really starting from scratch, you’ve probably upgraded buildings to make it easier to build a new team. You should view the game more as you’re the team coach rather than a character. Adventurers come and go, but your goal is to build up the town so you can put together a team that…

That’s a great co-op game, and good for playing with a friend/spouse/kid/etc. who isn’t quite a skilled. One player not being able to accomplish something never really hinders you, and since there’s no real punishment for dying and screwing up can actually be fun due to the goofy physics, it’s fun whether you’re good…

It’s not really a “mashup” that’s how they performed it on Bing Crosby’s final Christmas special. Bing died a few weeks after they filmed it and before it ever aired.

I loved the game... now that I think about it. Is it actually available to play on any modern system/PC? I still have a copy and an original Xbox in my basement. I’m not sure if it’s worth it to dig it out.

On point 2: I think it’s clear that there will be a reason we’ve never seen spore-drive technology. It’s already proven to be risky, requiring basically torturing a possibly-sentient being (if you can find one), or modifying the genetic code of a human (which is already hinted as having some unknown consequences).…

That’s just for the overly-safe helicopter parents/religious folk. I live in a pretty cool small town and it’s the same as it was when I was a kid. Kids wander around in costumes and go door-to-door getting candy into the evening. The teens and older kids tend to come later and aren’t wearing costumes half the time,…

You didn’t have to wait hours, though. In most places, if you were there when the store opened, or shortly after, you got one. Showing up at a Target at 8am or a Best Buy/Gamestop at 10am for an item like this that everyone knew would sell out quickly isn’t that bad, comparatively.

I’ve signed up for email alerts on numerous hard-to-get items from Amazon. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten an alert for one.