There are some HUGE difficulty spikes with Kirby’s bosses. Most of the game is a breeze but some of them, man. Even with a double health bar.

Gran Turismo

I totally agree that last.fm is the best way to record what you listen to. Also, I was shocked that rateyourmusic.com wasn’t on here. That’s a solid site that’s been around forever.

protip: if you don’t have an xbox series S/X or a PS5 you can go to the respective webstore and get it there to add it to your account before it gets delisted.

Concerts: setlist.fm

Obviously subjective, but I think of the 3D Zeldas, I’d have TP as the weakest outside of the N64 games. (And even then, MM at least has an awesome tone)

big disagree. a lot of the npcs look terrible and most of the environments are blandly brown-and-bloom, like some many games from that era.

“that cemented Disney’s conviction that all Star Wars fans are idiots”

As well as the repair & travel time for the Falcon from Hoth to Bespin. Hyperdrive was out for a while- back in the old days it was retconned as taking a few weeks to get to Bespin, giving Luke a bit more time on Dagobah. OT hyperspace still took a certain amount of time. Even in the prequels, it really started…

Also, the Milennium Falcon makes it from the Hoth System to the Bespin System at sub light speeds in a matter of days.

The disconnect that people have about the passage of time in films vs tv is one of my favorite nitpicking discussions.

“In the petersonian sense” wtf does that even mean

Considering that battle was about obtaining free will, I can think of a few ways to at least match those stakes, after all, free will is nice and all, but so is not being dead.

To be fair, it’s easier to not care about delays when you are an indie studio that created a bestseller.

> and having to fight the embodiment of fate at the end is the classic JRPG mistake of going way too big.

The escalation at the end was definitely the main issue. Like, the previous boss was a truck.

I also don’t really buy the whole “REMAKE challenges what it means to be a remake” hype because, well, for like 90% of the game it’s pretty much just the first act of FF7.  

One of the best episodes of Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast is the one with Kevin Conroy. Fascinating and very emotional.

He’s the (Bat)man

This is correct, but it’s still laughable that Epic (or really mostly Tim) is trying to play the weirdly underdog/robinhoodesque role in all of this. All of these companies are companies, nobody is the “good guy” here.