I’d agree, but go a step further and note that everything about the interaction with Quiet Robe paints Samus as deferential and respectful. She lowers her guard when he shows her a gesture of respect (and there’s a callback to this much later that I won’t spoil for those who haven’t gotten there), she speaks to him,…

Games don’t always age well, and sometimes age doesn’t just make them comparatively clunky or inelegant, but actually exposes fundamental flaws in their construction. Things critics and the buying public may have forgiven at release, but which become absolute deal breakers down the line.

Sonic Adventure and its sequel…

I love the Model M (and have heard the Model F, if you can find one, is an absolute dream to type on), but the versatility of other MK profiles and switches has won me over.

There is the SSK, which Unicomp has produced a modern take on called the Mini M:

Not sure why that’s an “actually”, since that aligns with the time frame I put forward.

Anyway, I know I moved around a bunch between different blogging media for years, and I definitely have a bunch of them I’ve forgotten about, or only just remembered because of this discussion (for example, remembering just now…

The account has been deactivated now, but the most recent Wayback archive of the homepage is from May of 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20190518122120/https://www.deviantart.com/danielzklein

The article says “screenshots” of these posts came up. That indicates, at least to me, that they’re not live anymore, and were likely either saved in the past by someone (and leaked when Klein became a target for the toxic elements of the Apex fanbase) or were dredged up via the Wayback Machine or similar.

To wit, he was playing a Rabbi who also served as a mohel. While many mohalim are such, not all are.

The Ninja Gaiden arcade one literally caused me to run and hide when I first encountered it. I was like... Four.

Schrodinger’s Asshole, rearing his misshapen skull once again.

That’s not the only thing that screed demonstrates they have no concept of.

Making it necessary to repeat the act does not mean it isn’t incentivized. It just makes it more intentional on both parties’ parts.

It’s still incentivized. You are still being offered a reward, and pretending that “oh, you have to look it up” is preventing it from being incentivized, when it still stands in the way of a 100% trophy/achievement list for the game in either case, is a weak argument.

This was still a behavior put into the game by the…

Please. Just literally anything after the first three titles would be amazing.

There are a few options, if you’re willing to explore things like the /r/mechanicalkeyboards subreddit, both for low-profile kits and pre-built boards.

Like with everything else, they’re not for everyone. I have both a Vortex Core and a Vortex Tab 90M with MX Clears and the stock DSA-profile caps. I love them on the Core, a 40% board, but I’m finding that the uniform flatness makes typing with hand travel, which is necessary on the Tab 90M, more difficult than I’d…

Low-profile keycaps and switches are pretty uncommon at this point in the mechanical keyboard space, though Kailh has introduced a “choc” series of low-profile switches and Cherry has MX low-profile (the former would not be compatible with standard Cherry keycaps).

If you’re not looking for chiclet-level low-profile,…

You realize that “hire archivists” doesn’t mean “each individual company should hire their own, in-house archivists”, yes?

Sure, they can. EA’s doing that. But having an actual archival organization means getting access to stuff that pirates either can’t or have to go through illegal channels to get (opening anyone who…

“There is zero interest for this thing EA, often cited as one of the shittiest and most corporate of companies in the industry, is already showing an interest in doing.”

Frankly, these comments all just make my point for me. The lot of you don’t even seem aware of what archival actually entails, much less that there…

My point is that there are people where preserving gaming history is literally what they do for a living. Advocate for, and encourage, the hiring of such people. Use stories like this, where we’ve lost something wonderful, as a catalyst for that, instead of for signal-boosting piracy.

Again, EA, voted the worst company…