Speaking as someone who ran Reddit surveys for a gacha game for about a year, we discovered several instances where rates either weren’t what they appeared to be, or the community was left to assume a rate was one thing when it was in fact something else.

Gotta respect the continuity they are putting into this show. Bruce Maddox was a one-off character from Season 2 they are apparently choosing to make this entire series pivot around. At the same time it’s a little tonally weird considering TNG came before serialization was really a thing in television, and it was…

The banner bothers me. It implies that he made the effort to keep that banner preserved, and then even to have it salvaged from the wreck of the Enterprise D. And then to have it put in a museum...? Like, it’s clearly meant to invoke our nostalgia for an episode of Star Trek, but makes no sense in the context of the…

That’s a whole lot of self-pity for someone who stumbled upon a winning lottery ticket

I was expecting more of a Lord-of-the-Flies-style skewering of Fyre Fest in this episode. But it turns out that minus the technical glitches the festival went off just fine, for the most part. I guess with only two episodes left they can only afford so much diversion...

I was thinking about the fish he was supposed to be clutching, and how much less potent this version is, and then I wondered if maybe it wouldn’t be clear in a visual medium what was going on, since kid daemons can take on any form. They would at the very least have had to add some expository dialogue, e.g. “He’s not…

I remember being in 9th or 10th grade and receiving a promotional VHS tape for Donkey Kong Country... I want to say in the mail? I don’t actually know where it came from. Looks like someone put it online:

Wait, so is Kim Wexler in this movie?

I bet the annihilated population of Koholint feels tremendous relief at that resolution

I’m the same, except for me “the full experience” means waiting until after the entire game has been released, not just a single chapter. I’ve been a day-one player of Final Fantasy since the days of FFIV, but my experience of paying full price to essentially be a beta tester for FFXV taught me a hard lesson.

It also makes the Mystics complicit in a really fundamental way. No longer do they represent a sort of natural occurrence, without the power to fix what was broken, but complicit in the breaking and refusing to make the sacrifices necessary to fix what they helped destroy, as the Archer does.

A friend of mine recently unearthed Peter Engel’s memoir, I Was Saved By The Bell. Apparently it’s a fascinating read. I was curious if the punching-down-on-nerds stuff was intentional, lazy, or maybe just a cynical way to sell a show. It sounds like he’s completely oblivious to anything ever being problematic with it,…

Meh. I never bought into Squall’s “arc”. He only ever changes at all because the plot demands it of him.

Yeah, I didn’t see it as a hit job against Bruce Lee’s legacy, so much as a device to show us that Pitt’s character is *so remarkable* that he can hold his own in a fight against him. This, combined with the acid cigarette, made for a lot of tension for me in the final confrontation (we know an unimpaired Pitt could…

This guy entirely fits the sociopathic profile of Billy McFarland, of Fyre Festival fame. Or Anna Delvey. He just didn’t get quite as far spending other people’s money before getting found out.

You might be able to stretch the image on your HDTV!

It looks like it’s the choice between an unscaled 480p image with a border all around it or an upscaled image with borders just on the two vertical sides.

Even with a perfectly preserved code/asset repo, the odds of having an environment that can still properly build and package a game from 1995 are extremely slim. I say this as a games developer that started on the Nintendo GBA back in 2005, a full 10 years later than SD3's release, and if you asked me to rebuild a…

Pro-tip: the soft resets on the various platforms (A+B+Start+Select for FF Adventure, and R+L+Start+Select for the SNES games) all still work here, if you ever want a quick reset without going through the hassle of the menus.

Sex changes lower a player’s Humanity score in some rulebooks for Cyberpunk 2020.