“Super Mario 3D World just doesn’t play as effortlessly as I’d expect of a Mario game, a feeling perhaps compounded by this re-release coming hot on the heels of last year’s Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a compilation which included some of Mario’s best 3D outings. Add in a wonky camera that only gives the player a bare…

Vampires gonna buy the hell out of that wine.

But like... they have backups. Paying the people/person doesn’t guarantee anything. They still have copies. If someone is shitty enough to steal it and extort you in the first place, I have no trust that they’d honor their word and not release the info after you pay them anyway.

Right, and those kinds of systems were hopefully in place. Hacks like this are usually social engineering first and foremost, though, and VPN and associated crypto are only as secure as your staff are paranoid.

Not at all, and especially not during the pandemic when most (if not all) employees are working from home. Source code needs to be pulled, worked on, and committed. Email needs to be read and replied to. There’s no way to airgap any of that. Company docs, maybe, depending on what those compromised documents actually…

Seconded.

I argue to this day that while the very final moments might not have been fantastic, the “ending” is the entire game. The whole 3rd game is a finale to the characters and relationships we love, and there were many satisfying endings within that. So what if the final shots fall a bit flat? 

like the game’s keyboard + mouse control method being almost unusable since the on-screen prompts still only appear for a controller.

Weird, I think this shows exactly why Nintendo HAS to go after fan games using their IP. Just googling for new Mario bros cactus gives this as the first result? Nobody’s going to know that Nintendo didn’t make that garbage.

The remastered songs are objectively better

You know, once CD quality music could be put into video games, I’ve found a lot of video game music more forgettable. The simpler tunes of the 8- and 16-bit eras find a way to latch on to your brain and never let go.

I think Athletic works. Forest of Ilusion sounds like something that accidentally came out of  A Link to the Past.

IT WILL BREAK MY IMMERSION IF I CAN EASILY SORT ALL OF THE LOOT I PICK UP!!!!!

Yeah, I’m beyond tired of people saying shitty things and then claiming it was a joke when they’re called on it.

Gonna be honest. As a simple and sometimes pathetically empathetic person, I dig what she had to say. Even IF the commenter didn’t deserve to hear that (he did), there are a whooooooooooole lot of other peeps that absolutely need to hear what she had to say.

As usual, streamer news about someone of whom I have never heard and makes me feel old. But of all the stupidity exemplified by shitty guys in this story, the Minecraft quote sticks out to me for some reason.

Streaming will forever be something I just do not get. Like are these dbags hate/rage-watching women stream? Each passing day also moves me more into the “internet was a mistake” camp.

Nah, just Nintendo being salty.

The Japanese can be very touchy about this sort of thing. If even one employee in your company leaks this information, well, it is a breach of trust and an act of disrespect. How can they then trust Netflix when their corporate culture is so lax that their employees casually leak secrets?

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