That’s a Gamecube exclusive.

If you’re really stuck, r/tipofmyjoystick is good for this kind of question.

Never played it at the time, it was notoriously buggy. If they’ve fixed that then I’ll probably give it a look, it was kind of a proto-Mass Effect if I recall right.

I got Automata, yeah. Character and combat also seem Bayonetta-ish to me.

Is BL3 even worth playing? The only friend I know who played it hated it (and he has hundreds of hours on BL2, for his sins). I felt done with Borderlands after BL2, the humour was already hit or miss, and it sounded like the writing took a hit in BL3.

I once read an account of the birth of kawaii culture that made the case that it was the younger generation responding to the violent suppression of their civil rights youth movement in the late 60s. They were protesting and making a scene, demanding equal rights for women and so on, and the police were brutal. Not…

Yeah, I had to drop Polygon a while back too. There’s some incredible long-form pieces on there, but I was done with the constant sermonising and drama-baiting, most of which seemed to come from Kuchera.

That’s all spot on, yeah.

It’s becoming clear that many people on here don’t know what “processed” means lol.

MIDI’s still around. Wwise, FMOD and similar middleware engines all support MIDI. In general there’s tonnes of work being done to develop dynamic scoring in games, to get away from the “single track recording of an orchestra” thing, and MIDI (or MIDI-like) control over instrumentation can be useful there. So yeah, MP3…

“Mortal combat” doesn’t mean “combat among mortals”, it means “a fight to the death”. Chess is very rarely mortal combat.

Nintendo’s synthetic scores have been a stylistic choice from the Gamecube onwards (this is true of almost any system from then on). It happens to be an aesthetic choice that I appreciate, but I do understand why it’s divisive, it can be mistaken for “cheap” or “crappy”. I’m not surprised they relented eventually.

They did stop using it in their burgers as a direct consequence of his nugget crusade, which might be what you’re thinking of. Either way, their nuggets are still a highly processed food - chickens do not come in neat nugget shapes.

“During the pandemic, we came in seven days a week. Some people worked every day—16 hours a day—for three months.”

Eh, disagree. I love the older scores. They sound like videogames, instead of the faux-movie orchestral stuff. To avoid a misunderstanding, I still like the latter - I just prefer the former. (Also, the new games may well use MIDI as a technology, it’s still very common in games. What you hate is General MIDI, which…

I enjoyed the first NSMB game on DS back when it came out, but even then, it just felt like a retread of old ground that had been done better earlier. A lot of people are put off by the slippery physics, but for me, the main problem was that I felt I’d played that game multiple times already.

So if it’s twins, does that count as Mpreg compression?

McDonalds still sell chicken nuggets last I checked. (Much to Jamie Oliver’s everlasting disapproval, I’m sure.)

“I’m wrong, I know it, and I’m going to try to save whatever shred of dignity I have left by deleting your posts” wow, commendable way to take the high ground there, champ!

You can delete as many as you want, mate. Every time you do, you’re telling me that you couldn’t respond in any other way. It’s a compliment of sorts.