Thanks for sharing this. I had owned a GameCube since a few days before their official release in the US and can’t say I was ever aware of this little easter egg.

Wasn’t for me. I never made a habit out of incessantly clicking buttons when my consoles start up and it wasn’t widely reported non-stop. This is literally the first I’ve heard about it.

You see how this whole article is structured, right? It begins - literally the opening sentence - by acknowledging this could be an “embarrassing gap in our knowledge”, then I repeatedly mock myself for reporting 23-year-old news throughout, and then finish by mocking us again by suggesting we’ll report on a Wii egg…

I’m 46 and I spent an awful lot of my time playing my GC at the time. Thanks for your concern.

Speaking as someone who bought a Dreamcast in college just for Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure, Heroes wasn’t underrated.  It’s as exactly as mediocre as it’s average Metacritic score would lead you to believe.  I think the only thing it really has going for it today is that so many worse Sonic games have come out…

Then you’ll be the coolest car out there.

“Someone bigger is stealing from them already, so I might as well steal too?” What an absolutely shitty worldview you have, you fucking thief. 

And a lot of creative laborers are doing this to sustain their own livelihoods and support their families. There were multiple reports about creatives who depend on royalties to meet the minimal annual income to be eligible for health insurance. And even if some of them are okay with giving someone joy in lieu of…

I’m pretty sure the intended way to use the sholder buttons on PS controlers is with your index fingers resting between them. Trying to put both your index fingers and middle fingers on them causes you you have to really stretch to avoid your ring finger from floating above the grips, you can really feel the tension…

You guys have the same number of jokes as the “identify as an attack helicopter” people

Yeah, gotta agree. I’m more likely to wanna take myself out or just die in a blast than try to prolong living in a world where nukes are flying. I barely wanna be here now.

The people who will run in with attempts at “told you so”s will ignore two major elements:

1) Even if it was the best thing ever, Microsoft did such an ATROCIOUS job explaining/marketing it, it never would have mattered. The case study of just how you could botch a console launch from every conceivable angle is…

We need to bring back trust-busting anti-monopoly policies, and make the threshold for what constitutes a trust or monopoly much lower.  I am far more worried about corporate rule than some OrangeMan (though I am plenty worried about him).

I mean, does it? Who cares which game sold more?

I mean ... yeah? By that logic, why do ANY of the side quests? Why race with Claire? Why talk to Judy at all after the *thing happens? Why indulge Johnny and help him get some closure with Kerry? Why do any of the fixer jobs and side quests? Why not just blitz the main campaign and get to the end as fast as possible?

Israel

There is an actual definition of genocide and what Israel is currently doing absolutely meets that definition. It does not require the complete elimination of an ethnic group. The hallmark of genocide is the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a ethnic, religious or other group. Israeli leaders at all levels have…

I don’t think Kerry is all that great to begin with. Having said that I wanted more sex scenes than anything. In a world where sex is everywhere, even literally showing sex in ads, there’s actual very little sex for your character to have.

i am really interested to see how this does. for a multi billion dollar franchise, i’ve never actually met someone in person that saw Avatar 2 in theaters, so I don’t understand who is going to these. the first film was so bad it was basically a comedy. most people i know don’t ever talk about avatar, and they are…

I love hearing people online say over and over again that Miyazaki should be making the Zelda movie and how I have to remind them that he’d rather kill everyone in the room and then himself than make a movie adaption of a video game.