I thought for a second they were releasing a “Sonic Maker” game in the vein of “Super Mario Maker”.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, I know who he is or I wouldn’t have said that. He was a contestant on Survivor in 2018 and created The White Lotus in 2021. I didn’t say that was his entire career or that Survivor played a part at all in his show, only that these two things happened in that order. I haven’t…

I hope you enjoy yourself, I’ve never played 1 or 2 but 4 is nearly as good as 6.

I mean, they are still “remasters”. I don’t think you’re ever going to see the SNES version legitimately rereleased with bugfixes and a new script. I’m totally fine with the updated opera scene and the new console versions improve the fonts substantially. But yeah, it’s all still personal opinion.

I think he wrote and copyrighted it in 2017 but only (self-)published it in 2022. Which to me reads a lot less like “they took my idea” and more “I’m going to try and sue them so if I can get it published before the show actually airs it’ll help my case.”

Bug and translation fixes, obviously. I wasn’t counting those since, unlike the additional content, they did make it into the Pixel Remaster.

I’ve played through FF6 one time on the GBA and it was solid (once I tweaked the brightness and music), but I can’t think of anything that it added from the SNES version in terms of content that I actually care about. I appreciate the various updates in the Pixel Remaster a lot more.

It blew my mind when I first heard about the SNES FF6 “evade bug”, I wasted so many turns curing characters’ Blind status only to find out it never mattered at all.

Didn’t the Pixel Remasters use the same scripts as the GBA versions?

Back to the Future is my favorite movie trilogy of all time, but I want to give an honorable mention of the loose trilogy of Star Trek II-IV - it’s hard to say that three movies out of a (so far) 12 movie series make up a trilogy, but Wrath of Khan, Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home (aka The One with the Whales) al…

I had never even considered cashing out my 401(k), I didn’t know other people had either. Yeah, very bad idea. I still have like two old retirement accounts that I need to merge with my current one, but it’s a pain to do that so I haven’t.

I don’t have kids, but when I was a kid (mid 90s), sleepovers still existed, though I rarely participated. Probably because I was never very social, but I did sleep over at my one best friend’s house (or vice-versa) periodically, but we’re talking literally like 4 or 5 times in a year if that. I never had a “let me…

A Lidl actually just opened near me, I’ll have to check it out, thanks!

Fun fact - everything that a car rental does for you automatically is more expensive than doing it yourself. Don’t even look at how much they charge for gas.

Interesting, this is the first I’ve heard of ScreenX. Looks pretty gimmicky, to be honest. There aren’t any near me, but there is an IMAX theater (which is still gimmicky, but less so), so I’d probably choose that first.

Looking it up, they typically either shoot extra footage with additional cameras specifically for the side screens or else it’s added on in post with CG. So I can’t imagine you’re getting much that’s really critical to the experience on those screens.

Yeah, I like the idea a lot more than the specific execution. Like you said, the colors feel more like Octopath Traveler than Pokemon.

I mean, yeah. HD-2D is largely meant to imitate the style of the SNES - pixel characters and pixel backgrounds - but with 3D movement and lighting. This is pretty much exactly what PS1-era designers were going for out of necessity, but here there’s 25-30 years more graphical power behind it. Most of the “low-poly…

These are basically fan art, not a playable game. Nintendo usually has very little problem with this kind of thing and I don’t see there being any C&D.

Last year I bought a house in a new development and every house had cheap splash blocks like these at every gutter installed by the builders.