I definitely don’t get why it would be more awkward or problematic to shoot an intimate scene where the characters are related than one where they aren’t. I mean, surely on the day what matters is the relationship between the actors and the crew, not the characters.

Was. Rest in peace, actually good reboot. You were too stacked with expensive actors for this world. 

Yeah, the show itself is available. I’m saying it’s weird that they’ve never done anything with it ever again. This is Disney, I would have expected multiple remakes, remasters and a billion dollar movie that may or may not have MCU ties by this point.

Honestly, much as I do like this game, I would be into more narrative content. It’s crazy that this was a one and done, basically. And while I think it’s also hard to capture why people liked it, so a disappointing reboot is certainly very likely I can tell you I skipped most of their Disney Plus Star Wars stuff but I…

This is one of the games that used CRT blending effects more intentionally, particularly in the Mega Drive/Genesis version. I wonder if the remaster will do anything with that, because the pixel perfect version of this is... a bit weird to look at, since the effect is all over Goliath’s wings.

It can be a bit confusing if you don’t know what the game expects of you (here’s hoping they add the manual or a hint system), but it’s a nice looking, well made game. This was one of the very few brief moments in that presentation that weren’t physically painful and they just... said it was happening and moved on…

I mean, I appreciate the impulse to mediate, but... not really. The “other guy” was missing the point because he thought these AIs are copy/pasting pieces of pre-existing pictures together, which is not how it works. This wasn’t a philosophical misunderstanding about the concept of comprehension, it was one side…

It’s the latter. He’s said this before, he links to a whole misleading, misinformed article about how artists will lose their jobs because Dall-E 2 is evil or whatever.

This must be the most frustrating piece of gaming marketing I’ve ever had the misfortune of sitting through.

Unfortunately, you get US localizations as the default for anything meant for anywhere vaguely “western”. This thing is probably in English in many of the non-English speaking places where the license is a big deal.

I’m guessing they would have had to pay the cancellation fee in 2021 and negotiated a postponement instead with the venue because of Covid. Then when they fully cancelled they probably still had to pay that fee. I mean, who knows, they are a pretty big thing that comes back every year, so the whole situation is…

Yes.

I mean... half of Shin Chan’s appeal is him “being a normal kid having a normal summer” anyway.

Well, that’s the setup you want on one of these anyway, so this is probably a good deal for most people.

Ah, the excluding handheld bit aligns it, I suppose, although I would certainly not exclude handhelds. If nothing else home consoles are a very narrow field, being in the top 10 of eight generations of consoles is not saying much.

I think whether you feel that most of the stuff that seeps through is negative or not will have a lot to do with perspective. I, for sure hear a lot of the upsides of ML, which is such a hot area of research for all sorts of positive applications (including, by the way, making videogames).

Yeah, a lot of my point here is that console “success” is often a lot more regional than people give it credit for.

It’s definitely a huge vicious cycle between the erosion of facts online, the push to compete in misleading information for traditional media and the erosion of traditional media as trusted gatekeepers of fact offline prompting more vulnerability for the erosion of facts online.

Where did you pull that stat? By most sources I’m aware of it doesn’t make the top 10 worldwide. And while, yeah, it did outsell the Xbox and Gamecube (which is not saying much) and it narrowly outsold the Mega Drive/Genesis the only Nintendo consoles that did worse are the Gamecube, the Wii U and... the Virtual Boy.

296 is a lower number than I would have guessed. But then, the N64 bombed harder than people, and particularly North Americans, think. Still, knowing that library (and that controller) I certainly wouldn’t commit to that, especially on original hardware.