Dial-up was still extremely common by the time Dreamcast was killed in 2001. Broadband was still pretty rare until the mid-2000s, even if Microsoft was an early adopter.

Personally I never felt Sega was as strong in games development as they were in the Dreamcast era. That was a time I could pick up just about any first-party game, even in genres I didn’t otherwise like, and expect it to be amazing (like Crazy Taxi and Shenmue, plus weird stuff like the Typing of the Dead and Floigan…

I definitely understand the point about the DVD player. It was important to me, and gaming sites really underestimate how much average consumers want to have all-in-one boxes.

The Dreamcast seemed to do everything right. I loved it. I was reading video game news at the time, and I’ve still never really understood what happened.

I thought the Mandalorian was fine and Boba Fett was terrible, but this show was fantastic. I don’t understand all the trashing. Best Star Wars since The Last Jedi, IMO. 

I loved the show, but I agree that I wish I hadn’t known that nothing would actually matter. There are some genuinely scary things in the show, but I knew in the end that Owen, Beru, Luke, Leia, etc. all make it out OK so I can’t really worry about them.

Help me [Ben] Kenobi, you’re my only hope.

Vader doesn’t do anything in this series that he and Yoda didn’t already do in Empire Strikes Back. He is portrayed as way more powerful there than he seemed in New Hope.

Yeah, people who take Star Wars dialogue very seriously should try to quote it correctly. “It really bothers me that this series contradicts the line of dialogue that I am misremembering.” OK?

Of course you know this, but Luke confronting Obi-wan and “from a certain point of view” is from Return of the Jedi, not ESB.

Hard disagree. This series was way better than Solo, and the questions it answered were important. Obi-Wan spends almost no time with Darth Vader in episode III, but by episode IV they seem to have a long history. And in episode VI Vader says “Obi-Wan once thought as you did,” so there was clearly some effort Obi-Wan…

Yeah, like it or not, Star Wars has ALWAYS had a fast-travel cheat. Nothing ever takes time unless the hyperdrive is broken.

Characters in Star Wars have always traveled across the galaxy in minutes or hours, if they have a functioning hyperdrive. The only time it’s ever taken a while is when they’re on a crappy piece of junk ship like the Millennium Falcon.

That’s definitely not true. Nintendo used to have a “Player’s Choice” line for Gamecube and Wii games, for example, which priced older games at $19.99.

The Ratchet and Clank games were WAY better than Jak 2 or 3. They were still fun and silly, while Jak 2 was trying to be GTA for some stupid reason.

At this rate if Elon wanted to run for President, he just would. What’s illegal or unconstitutional? Whatever the Supreme Court says. This Supreme Court would vote 5-4 that the Constitution intended to allow immigrant right-wingers to run for President.

The most successful stocks don’t pay dividends anymore. It’s all about the speculation now.

When stocks used to pay dividends, you could pretend that an investment in the stock market was more than just gambling. Now as you say the price of the stock is completely disconnected from the value of functioning of the company. Which is why a company like Tesla can bleed money and still make Elon Musk rich: his…

I know I’m the only one who feels this way, but the only Turtles game I ever liked was the very first one on the NES, which was kind of a Zelda 2 style game rather than a beat-em-up. I could go for a remake of that instead, maybe not so insanely difficult this time.

Imagine writing something so stupid yet still being so impressed with how clever you are. Real Dunning-Kruger guy over here.