I'm surprised they're surprised.

They kinda offend me, if you can believe such a thing.

So?

The best games are still great. Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, for instance. And I'm not even bashing games like, say, Goldeneye, which were revelatory for consoles at the time but have aged terribly now that we're all used to dual sticks. Goldeneye's still a treasure in its own way.

Meh. It looks like chocolate cake. Good chocolate cake, sure, but nothing unique.

I would hardly say that means you were doing anything wrong.

Conflating mediocrity with suck is a dilemma all over the place these days.

Some did, some didn't.

Eh, the controllers were alright-ish. Ludicrous, but the only glaring flaw was the lack of a second stick, which became standard soon after.

Making the camera a character (a Lakitu who is filming you) always felt like a cute way to acknowledge that the camera kinda sucked and hey, this guy's doing the best he can, so don't blame him too much.

I don't think things are settled enough to declare all of commercial/non-organic pesticide practices entirely safe. There's a lot of silly organic people out there, but tossing the entirety of the movement feels rushed or shortsighted.

N64 era 3D platformers were not good.

I went to Italy a decade ago. Food was great, but it was almost as if we couldn't find higher-end restaurants.

As a native Rocklander, god bless you for not calling Rockland upstate.

I can attest to this. It's also right next to Big Ed's, where I got a pretty delicious burger for like eight cents or something.

I mean, good luck with that?

Yeah, this article was great, and I'm not even an organic person, but "the entirety of the organic industry is entirely bullshit" is maybe a little extreme?

I was thinking Louisiana and NY state. I'm not saying Chicago doesn't have a bunch of corruption and crime. It's a unique mix of hefty murder rate (is that too glib) and very high population. But I think the way Chicago has been pushed as shorthand for these things in the past decade or so is a little iffy.

These days, Chicago is associated with crime in media to perpetuate myths about Democrats and black people. Full stop.

They had (or still have) those. They were third party websites, so if you're taking about something that's in WoW itself, that's a little different. I had pretty good luck with them. More often than not, I wound up with people who knew what they were doing.