It wasn’t very popular on its initial release. I think a lot of people first found out about it in the emulation era.

I have never in my life heard someone say chili has to have beans in it. The opposite, really -- there are tons of purists who insist that chili absolutely cannot have beans in it.

Onion HQ is in Chicago. I don’t think it’s disproportionate, anyway. A lot of other online media is myopically focused on NYC, DC, and SF.

Also, does anyone think “Cincinnati bolognese” would come in for any less mockery? It’s still covered in a massive heap of yellow cheese.

Super Mario 3D World has got to come at some point, but I’d be surprised if they ported it without giving it a ‘Deluxe’ treatment.

They just announced an N64 port today, Doom 64. If you’re talking about Switch Online, my guess is “never”. Publishers are much more interested in re-releasing their old games on new systems than they were back in the Wii Virtual Console days, and overall it’s better business for Nintendo if the third parties handle…

The number of people who would subscribe to the Switch online service solely to play an expanded roster of games would be relatively low. Low enough, especially considering the low price of the service, that it might not break even with the increased cost of operation.

It’s not “but licensing”, it’s “but releasing a ton of free competition for the indie games we’ve tried to lure to the Switch”.

Substantially cheaper, though. I don’t want to buy these games for $5 again, so I’ll take a smaller selection in exchange for the subscription model.

It’s not a problem. Both the console and software for it are selling like hotcakes. It’s not as powerful a system, so it’s not going to appeal to the minority of gamers who buy games on launch day, anyway.

Curry was introduced to Japan by the British, which is why Japanese-style curry has an English name (カレーソース, “curry sauce”). And, like other comments say, it’s still very popular in the UK, with a prominence comparable to Mexican food in the US.

There’s definitely a lot of purism/gatekeeping in setting this terminology, but I also think that games with true permadeath/no meta-progression differ on a really fundamental level from games with some kind of persistent progression, and it’s useful to have different terms. Especially when referring to something as a…

Rogue Legacy is not a roguelike. “Roguelite” is fine.

Not to mention the electrical bill!

These are very, very late and high-end SCSI drives from the same time that SATA was beginning to take off. There were still a lot of SCSI RAID arrays around that time, and SATA RAID support was thin on the ground. I see Ultra-160 and Ultra-360 in there, which were state of the art in 2003 and had similar or better…

I’m sure there are websites running off RAID arrays of HDs like this that have been the pride and joy of some neckbeard’s closet for the past 15 years. But it’s much more likely for a site like this to be running on some cheap crappy VPS.

I’m not saying it’s impossible the site was hosted on that hardware. I’m just saying that’s also exactly the kind of used, possibly broken hardware you might find if you were trying to source a pile of hard drives for a viral video. I actually meant it more as a response to the “burning hard drives isn’t a best…

Even unlockables are considered pretty borderline, but the classic roguelike that has absolutely no persistent state is a niche enough set of games that it’s fair to say it’s a subgenre at this point (‘classic roguelike’ is a reasonable name). But yeah, any game where you can grind to make subsequent runs easier is…

Characters unlock different abilities on their personal skill tree with points they earn through dungeon runs. Using money you find in the dungeons, you can also buy upgrades that extend across family members to increase their health, damage, or critical chance.

Those are old (early 2000s, the labels have 2001 and 2003 printed on them and the Fujitsu MAS3735NC is from 2001) SCSI spinning-platter HDs. While it’s not impossible that the site was running on hardware that old, that’s also the kind of hardware you might pick up in bulk were you, say, planning to ceremonially…