This focus on digital vs. non-digital keeps missing the point. The “digital-only” future isn’t any more frightening for game preservation than the physical-only past. They each present their own pros and cons.

In context, it was very clear that the good/bad spectrum was referring only to the health of the battery, and not to other peripheral benefits of how and when a person might choose to charge their phone.

It’s a bit weird because we usually use “not good” to imply bad, but in this case, I think he just means it’s a neutral decision. It’s not good because it’s not anything. It’s just another way to charge your phone that has little to no bearing on how the battery wears.

It’s also not ready for the sheer volume of amateur presidenting we’ve been stuck with for more than two years, but here we are.

Right, but the headline says “SNES mod”, which is kind of misleading, dingus.

Now they just need to announce that it comes with Kinect.

Centuries of failing up made us intellectually complacent.

I honestly don’t understand why this is so fucking difficult. The flow chart is embarrassingly easy:

“Why is this ok?! A child doesn’t know who they are at this age.” 

Certainly feels like it when you’re the one doing the living.

“...everything she built...”

“I’d anticipated that this would be little more than a sandbox experience... Nope. This is still a video game, with rules and goals.”

That really does need to happen. The default button mapping sucks, and the extra text is distracting.

I feel kind of the inverse of that... that it provides just enough to be worth the meager asking price. That’s damning with faint praise, of course, and I can’t imagine anybody speaking highly of Nintendo Online. But I don’t find it offensive so much as I find it middling.

The licensing?

It’s almost like different people prefer different things.

Doubtful, since word is that M2 is involved.

It’s also worth noting that it basically has a Game Genie built in — you can enter cheat codes directly via the settings menu.

No. That’s exactly the point I’m making.

This isn’t a streaming platform. It’s more akin to Playstation Plus than it is to Google Stadia. The games are downloaded and run locally.