In the Novel, Dr. Frankenstein is all about “creating” life from “nothing”. Like he feels it’s cheating or something if he just reanimates a dead body. He wants to piece it together from a zillion scraps. Its implied he used pig parts as well as human ones.
I mean, its a bunch of bodies instead of just one but they are…

Regarding how conservative GameFreak is:
I don’t believe they are designing these games for anyone following Pokemon as a franchise.
IMHO They feel they have figured out how to make your first Pokemon Game experience a good one and do NOT want to stray from that. This is a franchise marketed to 7-12 year olds. I…

I feel like there is a *lot* of “First couple I played were the best” in this franchise.

I remember when the fandom all agreed that X and Y were crimes against the perfection that was Gen IV and Mega-Evolution was a gimmick that didn’t make any sense. Now Sword and Shield are crimes against nature, Sun and Moon are…

Yep.  It was making a big show of how much he should leave.  It was *not* hunting him.

Well, that certainly is a line going up. But what does it mean?
How many copies of games are being sold per year vs how much money is coming in? How much money/game? How much did each game cost to manufacture? How much did each one cost to develop? How many players were there?
We are all here complaining about how much…

$70 in 1995 is equal to about $119.50 today. If you actually charged $119.50 for a AAA game people would lose their minds, but if you charge $70 and try to get the rest of the money in the form of season pass, DLC, Microtransactions, lootboxes, tickets, ect you probably end up in a similar place.

I suspect all the…

No.

If the value of money drops but prices stay the same everything is getting cheaper.

Lets say I am willing to trade you a game for 10 pieces of cake. We do so.
Tomorrow, you cut all the pieces of cake thinner. There is now 1/2 less “stuff” in each piece of cake. But I’m still willing to trade you 1 game for 10 pieces.
…

This is how I remember them as well. Here in Minnesota around 1988-92 there were several Pizza Huts with buffets.

My high school job in Suburban Minneapolis around 1990-93 was a KFC with it’s own buffet. There was all the standard fare: original & crispy chicken, bbq dipped chicken, biscuits, cole slaw, mashed potatoes, potato salad, etc. There was also this weird vanilla pudding that we didn’t normally sell but was just for the…

There was a whole chain called “RAX” in the late 80s that was all about their buffets. They had this pasta/mexican/salad bar in all their locations. They were also the first fast food joint I remember being in that had “greenhouse” style windows in the dining area.

They made EXP share mandatory because they wanted to make the game easier. Their market isn’t people who play RPGs, their market is 8 year olds and people who play GO.
Stripping complex mechanics and not letting you accidently make it harder (by turning off EXP Share) was the whole point.

Back when MAD magazine was a thing there used to be a saying that “MAD Magazine was at it’s best whenever it was that you were 11 years old. They started getting lame whenever you were 15". Year didn’t matter.

I really prefer Hop over Hau. That guy just wouldn’t shut up.

The amount of effort that goes into the Postgame Battle-XX stuff waxes and wanes. The high water mark might have been the battle frontier back in Gen III Hoenn. There were like 7 different battle formats you could participate in & get medals and so on. They cut that back in the re-make versions to like one format with…

Agreed.  He would never have done it, and if he had he would have taken out a full page Ad in the paper *saying* he had done it and why.

Josh was always a jackass, but when I re-watched the show during the Trump era I realized he was actually a prophesy. He kinda cared about ideas, but he was way more interested in polls and legislative knife-fights. Eventually he started power-tripping on elected officials as the President’s Hatchet man.
He was what we…

I don’t know that I want political organizations funding an election, or part of it. People who put money in tend to have expectations about what money buys.
I’d rather our government fund the elections that are integral to it’s own operation.

My wife eventually just started hanging up on her Mother. She is in a much better place since she started.

Sure, her mother lives in a squalid hole but you know what?: That would have happened if my Wife helped her or not.

I agree. The thing that gets lost in these discussions is that there are 61 Million Switches out there, they are selling like hotcakes, and if they drop a new console it will kill sales on the old one and not everyone will replace their 2 year old switch with a new console. You drop a new console when the old one…

Yeah, we are on hardware revision 2 right now.
People spent months speculating on what kinds of amazing new stuff was going to come in that revision & we got more battery battery lift and that was about it.