I definitely put BSG in the same category as LOST and Game of Thrones- shows I was absolutely obsessed with during their run, which managed to cock up the ending so bad I never want to revisit them again.

“Considering how unexpectedly weird and different most Nintendo consoles are from the previous ones, I don’t put a lot of stock in analysis that says “the same, but more powerful”.

What happened was this- once you are in their system you can opt in to the “find my DNA relatives” feature; once you’ve done this, you see the names, current city, picture (if included), age, and relation of any of your “relatives” with whom you share DNA, no matter how distant; so the 14k users were stupid and reused…

Yup, 14k was the number of people dumb enough to reuse a password, but because of the ability to “link” your account to find all of your DNA relatives, that number jumps exponentially to 6.9 million... that’s the problem, and why 23andMe is so scared that they’re trying to cover their asses. With such a huge…

Cuphead. I absolutely adore the art style; It really does feel in every way like you’re playing an actual 1930s cartoon... but very quickly you realize that achieving that artistic style is VERY resource intensive for a small development team, resulting in a lack of substantial content- either players are going to…

Honestly, for a long time, I didn’t really see Elon’s effect on Twitter; I had curated my feed into such an insulater, narrowly defined niche, that I thought I could avoid Elon’s fuck ups and toxic content forever... No politics, no racist ramblings, just funny videos and (completely legal) porn.

A more apt comparison would be hand crafted products produced by skilled craftsman being replaced by cheap plastic crap from overseas... still costs the same, since all the profits head straight to the top, and you’re left wondering why nothing these days is built to last anymore.

Do yourself a favor and start…

The only “problem” that is going to be alleviated is the ease of which we can tell that it is AI; The real problem, that AI will wipe out the art field when no one is getting paid to make it anymore, is just getting revving up... and AI improving will only make that worse.

It’s wild to me that literally no one saw this and thought, “ummm... that’s not how sleds, balloons, or fishing poles(??) work.”

They had some lowly junior designer throw a prompt in, and then drop the XBox type treatment in and call it a day.

Do you not understand how living in a capitalist society works? If you can’t make a living with your art, you’re not going to have time to practice your art (since, you know, you have to waste all your time in some other soulless dead end job), and you certainly aren’t going to spend thousands of dollars on an arts…

It’s wild to see how much this is threatening the weightloss industry and their grift, to the point that they’re actively campaigning against it... I’ve been seeing all sorts of promoted posts from weight watchers about “ozempic face” (whatever that’s supposed to be) and trying to play up the side effects (despite…

It’s always comforting to see someone who gets why AI taking over art is a very bad thing, but in case it wasn’t clear enough, here’s how it all goes down:

I always find it funny seeing people complain about the time sink of re-renting gear in this game; I’ve played through it three times, twice of which were on the far harder “hero” mode, and not once did I have to re-rent a single piece of gear... Any time you die, you have the choice to continue (and lose all your…

I wouldn’t call it a direct sequel either... For one thing, it includes exactly zero references or specific story beats from LTTP, and in some places the stories outright contradict each other (both games having wildly different “seven sages” that are in no way related, being one of them.)

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I would hope a remake would try to up the graphics game... Upsampling sprites ala Tactic Ogre is okay, HD-2D like Triangle Strategy is better, but I’d really love to see the cartoon watercolor of the original concept artwork incorporated into the entire game (Bravely Default appeared to…

I feel the same way about Zelda... it’s wild to me the amount of effort people put into trying to shoehorn all of these different stories together into one coherent narrative, which involves multiple branching timelines and is frankly a hot mess... how about we just treat these as they are meant to be treated- as…

Netflix is great at self-fulfilling prophecies... many an article has been written about the ‘Netflix cancellation loop’, which this article touches on- At some point everyone will realize that very few, if any, Netflix shows make it past two seasons, which will result in no one bothering to invest time in a Netflix…

I haven’t seen this yet, and am speaking entirely out of my ass, but doesn’t that bode well for the anime then? They have purposefully left shitty Scott out of the equation for a large chunk of it, and allowed Ramona and her exes the room to become fully fleshed out characters... I have to imagine that doing so…

and lets not forget the Extreme Football League (aka Lingerie Football League) with the bright idea to make women play football on astroturf in next to nothing so they end up with crazy amounts of road rash. Fun!

There’s actually a happy medium! You can acknowledge that you loved the show at that time in your life, but also realize that in the ensuing years you have grown as a person (as well learning new information about the show’s creator) which makes it not as attractive as it once was; It’s okay to admit you loved things…