Someone paying $100,000 for one of these things has to be some kind of laundering, right? Or maybe they’re banking on getting to flip it later, right? There aren’t people that wealthy collecting....these, right?

Okay, that makes more sense, definitely so with the connection to idol culture.

I still don’t really get the use of the term “graduated” when it comes to V-tubers. Kinda makes it seem like the end goal is always to *stop* doing it, which strikes me as odd.

I’ve been thinking of making that same revisit myself lately, and every few months I pop in Breath of the Wild just to inhabit it again. It bums me out to no end that nowadays when I hear “open world” I just roll my eyes.

I think your latter point is the biggest one. It was another open-world game with crafting and basic sidequests and things to climb but not to marvel at, and coming out (for the second time) against a competing open-world game that managed to break through that fatigue with better execution just wasn’t lucky.

Didn’t they later admit during the suit that they in fact DID deliberately set out to evoke Gaye’s works?

Wouldn’t be shocked in the slightest. Every now and then I forget how God-awful the mobile game market is and browse the stores and I’m befuddled by just how many games with zero actual online functionality still require a persistent internet connection. I imagine it’s to keep in touch with their ad services on top of…

Always nice to see big companies get more open-minded and embrace piracy like this.

I concur on this point:

100%. Seeing those writeups and videos about the WiiU’s version of Ocarina of Time, for instance, helped break me on the idea of ever spending money on a Virtual Console equivalent download again. It’s simply a waste of money on half-efforts (or half-budgets, I’d believe there are engineers at Nintendo who want to do…

Thank you for having the candor I lacked, because yes, they very much are assholes.

This really feels like one of those “things are going to get much worse before they get better” situations and God knows that’s probably the best way to describe this decade so far. I think about all the people who have poured their heart and soul into creating only to get rejected for one reason or another, but keep…

Mate, Marnie is very much a child. The franchise is about children being sent out into the world to catch them all. What are you on about?

I wish dating my partner got me stronger magic powers. Instead all I get is love and affection and a cute face to look at.

They’re gonna send a legion of children after me armed with the toy ones.

Memory might be failing me in my age here but is Star Wars not the film where you see someone’s arm get cut off by a lightsaber? Seems like a strange thing for even Disney to get hung up on.

Looks like all of Inuyasha too, not just the first forty-odd episodes every paid streaming service seems to have. Good on Viz for getting this all up in a convenient-ish place (sorry other regions).

“Anyone who has played any of these games via FPGA can tell you the biggest elephant in the room is the fact that emulator and the games have input lag and they feel bad.”

My statement was not that it was bad, but that it was standard. You’re not wrong that using formulas can still result in positive outcomes, but this doesn’t sound like a game interested in using the elements of a formula to form a greater whole. It sounds like one that is applying a license to a template wholesale.

It has an equivalent to a stealth kill I’ve done in a dozen games since Assassin’s Creed II. It has a UI I could best describe as “default”. It has crafting that sounds not far off from collecting bits of things to mash against other things like in Far Cry 3. I don’t know if it requires you to hold buttons to open…