I lol’d. There was something I always really liked about Nuts and Bolts, I get why it got the hate that it did, but it’s kind of unfortunate, and I kind of wish that TotK would have gotten that same derision.

Thanks for sharing, that was actually fascinating!

This is literally the article title, “10 Years Ago, An Underrated Zelda Game Paved The Way For Tears Of The Kingdom: Breath of the Wild and its sequel didn’t come out of nowhere, y’know?” Pretty sure the author just thought that they based Ascend off of the ALBW mechanic. The hookshot has always let you use the…

Shhhhh, nobody noticed I ended that with cane toads in Australia yet...

You seem genuine in your stance, and I can see where you’re coming from and totally respect it. It’s just my opinion, and I know many won’t share it and I don’t expect them to, people need to put ever increasingly expensive food in their mouths and roofs over their heads, but I’ve done a lot of work for free, as an…

Selling your soul to a corp has some unfortunate consequences, especially a shitty one. If royalties are low then they should be demanding better wages upfront before signing any contracts. And if you wouldn’t buy the content in the first place because you don’t want to support said corp then no royalties are lost…

Once you have it on a hard drive, as long as that hard drive is back up only, you could store it off site to minimize the risk, but you’re absolutely right, none of this should be necessary, and you should just own the shit you purchase, it’s ridiculous.

That’s good to hear, I haven’t played any of them and really had no context for their quality. It also looks like they’ve been working with 343 on the Halo franchise which I didn’t realize.

Isn’t this game supposed to feature Vice City again? “I Ran (So Far Away)” was prominent in the marketing for GTA: Vice City, so much so that back in my party days I would always play that song while I *ahem* “partied”. I think you may actually be right about the connection to “A Flock of Seagulls”. Not in a way that…

It was already taken away from Aspyr, Saber are the ones working on it now. Not sure that it’s a huge trade up, but apparently somebody thought they could at least do better than Aspyr.

You sure seem to hate nerds for somebody that likes to bang nerds... 

This is a guy that knows what he’s doing!

You’re not wrong, last time I called gasoline a freak it was fuming so bad that an all-out brawl broke out, absolute nightmare fuel. So now I gotta look over my shoulder every time I even think to utter it, shits got such a temper, it really doesn’t take much to ignite it ... :(

I mean you can still steal a rental that you pay for, but that’s beside the point, copying is fundamentally different than stealing and piracy is about the only way for the average citizen to fight back against this corporate dystopia. Shows there’s still a demand for the content, just not the way that it’s being…

The big problem with physical media is that it’s vulnerable to fires, floods, tornados, hurricanes, avalanches, mudslides, mud not sliding, playground slides baking in the hot sun all day, baking, meteors, children, and scorned ex’s. Though at that point you’ve got some more problems to contend with than just your…

Technically I guess you could call them cave people... but that just feels some way or another... like I should be barking at Kotaku, speculating wildly about why that sentence in front of me ended up that way.

I don’t understand why you would think that was written by AI. The human in question was foraging for berries. Berries are small, fleshy fruits that are typically red, blue, or purple. They are a good source of vitamins, minerals, and fiber, and they have a variety of health benefits. Berries are also a popular…

I don’t know that I’d call myself a white knight, but in the end we were both willing to be dicks to each other for other people that we saw as being undeservedly slighted. 

Seriously, on one hand you have WB charging $10 for a new inconsequential fatality, on the other hand you have Larian giving us a whole new epilogue just because. The latter actually makes me want to give them money, and oddly enough, the former also makes me want to give the latter money.

Hah, the character that I’ve been trying to start is the Dark Urge druid but fighting against the impulses, psychopath that just wants to pet all the dogs. Probably says something about why we got into that tiff... 😅