Certainly could be both; I’ve read the comics and played the game.

I’ve had some dirty looks with my mask, but no one has had the guts to confront me over it. I don’t go to bars (I don’t drink), but the closest bar near me is a bit more liberal so I haven’t heard of any fighting since Eight and Sand took over a few years back. I like the quiet.

How about this? The Ohio State Fair, which draws in hundreds of thousands of people, is here in Columbus. No mask requirements (it’s an election year, and our right-wing governor doesn’t want to piss off the MAGAdiots to the south), no proof of vaccine, yet because of the new gun laws, you can legally carry a gun…

Yeah, I can see the Scott Pilgrim vibes....like I saw the River City Ransom vibes in Scott Pilgrim (since that game was the principal influence for Pilgrim).

I believe my nephew has watched a number of these (he was a big fan of High School of the Dead and Rosario to Vampire, but myself, I recall watching the first eps of Rosario, Kill la Kill, PS+G and HS but lost interest. Granted, I first watched anime in the late 60s (Speed Racer I recall), and my favorite period of…

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If they haven’t bought the game yet, wouldn’t they use that video and description to help them make up their mind? I don’t see this as thinking “too broadly”.

Fair enough. Though I wouldn’t classify myself as “devouring every single piece of information about a game”. Yes, I have heard about the game for the last few days from various sources but didn’t read any of them or watch videos. My only real exposure was Steam’s description where I watched the first video and read…

This article seems to have been written by a person who never bothered to see a video or read the game’s description before purchasing it.

But they’re still not “originals”, even if everybody knows them. Not in the literal sense of the word. And yes, I have two Atari VCS consoles (one is a Sears Video Arcade version, the other a Vader 2600) and a good 100 carts. I won’t argue that the two examples I cited are better-known; they clearly aren’t. But I also…

No, they weren’t as popular as the Atari VCS. And yes, not many people have heard of them in this day and age. But Nolan Bushnell did. Pong was largely based on a demo Baer did on what became the Odyssey. And it’s not a coincidence that Atari came out with carts a year after the Channel F did.

Reminds me when I was buying manga from the old Nikaku Animart in the early-mid-90s, when the yen was 129 to the dollar, except it’s even better now. I still have full sets of Urusei Yatsura, Rumic World and Maison Ikkoku manga from those halcyon days :)

The Atari VCS is the “OG Home Console”?

Explain. Because for me, this approach has worked ever since I began actively collecting games and consoles in the 90s. If you think I’m lying, I don’t care. You’re not me, and don’t know me; all you have is what you are responding to. So if you wish, please explain how what I said is a “joke”.

But who votes these anti-LGBTQ+ people back in, every time there’s an election?

I can remember being addicted to model building back in the 1970s, when I was a teenager. Names like Revell, Monogram, Hasegawa, Tamiya were as familiar to me then as rock stars to “normal” teens at the time. Of course, I mostly built military models.

You really shouldn’t run anything electronic (computers, phones, tablets, game systems, etc) when it is way too hot out. That’s pretty much common sense...if common sense was actually a thing these days.

I can understand theft. Some of my more valuable games in the early-mid 2000s were “borrowed” by relatives, never to be seen again. That made me more reticent to loan out my games.

How did you lose access to your physical copies? I have a collection that spans back to 1975 (Pong and Pong clones), and includes nearly every major console and handheld released from then up to the Switch Lite.

“While Democrats who control Congress and the White House use Roe’s fall to line their “just vote” war chests, grassroots organizations are advocating for sending money directly to the frontlines of abortion access.”