I have to chime in here real quick:

I used to go to this nerdy shop (there’s always the one). I played Yu-Gi-Oh at the time (because my spouse grew up in love with the game), so we would meet randos and just enjoy playing. It was genuinely pretty cool. Some people we became good friends with (I miss them... we moved).

An…

Touche.
Well, I WOULD argue it’s the exchange of all collected human knowledge, but yeah.

Also, it can easily be pointed out that, in the time it took you to respond to my comment, you could have just moved on and not said anything either. But I mean... again. That’s not how people use the internet. They have to get in…

I think that’s... It played the same as any other FPS on consoles, the only difference was that it used a Thumbstick by default, whereas most FPS were still using D-Pads (as all controllers didn’t have thumbsticks yet). Like, others had the same controls overall. The “right” control pad/stick makes you move forward,…

But this is the internet. Isn’t the point to say what’s on your mind? And to question other people’s fanaticism?

Let’s Please Not Forget:

Tomb Raider (2013) launched, and sold over 10 million units, ending at around 14.5 million... and Square Enix called it a failure... do you realize how many games WISH they sold that many units? It’s completely impossible for that game not to have been a success, given it’s completely average…

I didn’t care about any of the farm sims other than Harvestella. I cannot WAIT for that game.

Oh, and Tales of Symphonia Remastered. And I guess Fire Emblem Engage.

Otherwise, this Direct said absolutely nothing I cared about at all. Some neat updates, some whatever announcements. I was hoping for “Twilight Princess…

It’s a Japanese game. The people of Japan love puns. So it’s very clearly going to be both. Guaranteed. Like, you made a joke, but it’s not. I’m being serious.

Zelda II: Link’s Adventure (the actual name of the game, it completely dropped “The Legend of”) is a direct sequel to the original The Legend of Zelda, taking place a couple years after the original, and expanding the world to beyond the borders of Hyrule.

I don’t understand the still-strong pull this game has. It makes me wonder how many fans of the game have actually gone back to play it within the last... Decade? 15 years? It feels absolutely abysmal to play. It feels like a relic of design that people are happy to see gone. I don’t understand why this game gets this…

Thoughtless? Explain how “let’s not make her look like a Karen” is thoughtless? “Its a cartoon!” That’s minimizing. It was cringe when Disney made cartoons with black face, and when they made the Crows in Dumbo “act like black folk of the era”. That’s not funny or interesting or an interesting insight, it’s just weird…

Gen 2? The one where Team Rocket was trying to revive itself, hunting down and killing Pokemon, forcing Pokemon to evolve to destabalize the region to mask their growth and main objectives, and to continue obtaining powerful Pokemon (through abuse or theft)? Those guys? Because that seems pretty metal compared to the…

I think everyone should always strive to “do better”. That time you (collectively, not you specifically) said something messed up and embarrassing? Learn not to be like that anymore, not to just get upset when people point it out.

And this whole thing of “don’t take it so seriously” is just minimizing. “I don’t want…

It’s crazy how articles like this, that I consider “throw-away” articles - things I read, chuckle at maybe, or just don’t care, and then I just LEAVE without saying anything, always end up attracting lots of conservative-minded folks into the chat thread.

Isn’t it so weird? Almost makes me think of a certain wintery…

When someone references the 80s, you can tell that not only are they a Boomer, they are a pre-millennial Boomer. Seems like the first batch of rational, non-crazy, empathetic humans in the US came from the millenial gen (I am NOT saying all of them, I said the first batch. I hope gen-Z and alphas sprint away with that…

One last note: Queer issues aren’t political. Conservatives MADE them political.

If you’d like to talk about political-economic issues, such as state-level and federal-level budgeting, or foreign affairs policies, or various other similar issues, then yes, that’s political.

If you’d like to instead bring up issues of…

Man, I miss being able to walk outside and just exist (without being loud or obnoxious or putting myself into other peoples’ faces) and NOT be called slurs and made fun of and be threatened with legal action.

Too bad about your problem though. I can understand how saying gaming is the problem is more palatable. Your…

Sword and Shield had a billionaire who tried to summon forth a deity to steal it’s power and take more power for himself. How is that different from Gen 1? Or 2?

Yeah, there’s no “obvious super-villain group” but I mean... that’s kind of silly. All the games had Power Ranger villains. I’m fine with them treating those…

Negative. In the computer technology world, the outer shell of something is not considered Hardware. Hardware is widely accepted as the internals of the device itself. If you release an iPhone 20 in the color black, and then a month later release an iPhone 20, but in white, that’s not new hardware. It’s the same…

“A Switch with a new Chassis” can be hard to understand for some journalists. Knowing the difference between “Hardware” and “that plasticky bit, what’s it called? The part that you put your hands on that isn’t the internal hardware? That. That’s different. Like a... new... edition? A limited... edition? Special…

That’s because it’s not new hardware. Hardware is most widely accepted as meaning the genuine guts of the console itself, such as calling it’s operating systems firmware, and the games that run on that operation system the software.

Saying Hardware here was an obvious click-through-rate ploy. It’s not new Hardware.…