What language needs to be changed here for non-binary? English already HAS a gender neutral pronoun: they.  It’s NOT fucking hard.

It is indeed friggin’ delightful and I look forward to enjoying it with the kiddos this fall.

Hope this helps!

Dumbing down something, including pronunciation, for “core gamers” is oh so very 2023.

Horseshit. If the term’s actual history was important to the game, then I’d give it to you. But it’s not.

That’s a bummer that they couldn’t stick to the traditional pronunciation, especially when the original language and culture already has a tough time with preservation.

He was right, at least from the Scottish/Gaelic side of it. The ‘sith’ in Cait Sith is the same as in Ban Sith, which you might know better with the English respelling ‘banshee’. Ban Sith = ‘ban shee’, Cait Sith = ‘kat shee’.

And despite those price hikes, games (even at a $70 price point) are cheaper now, in terms of actual buying power used to purchase them, than pretty much any other point in the history of the medium.

Nope! Sega Genesis games also cost $60-$70 regularly. Pretty much every system except the PS1, which typically sold for $50. That was more exception than rule though. Home console games since the late 80s went for $60 very, very regularly.

This is emphatically not true. SNES games regularly cost $70 in the early 90s. There were some $50 titles from the beginning, but $60 has been the standard price since well before the 360, and it was in fact significantly more common to exceed that price before that. It was only around then that everything started to…

Fucking braindead take, these toxic kids are far more likely to have been the bullies.

Yup after Big N stabbed Sony in the back, they considered teaming up with Sega.

It’s funny in retrospect to think about how the reaction to them announcing the $599 price for the PS3 at E3 was like the polar opposite to them announcing the $199 price of the PS1 at E3. Just completely screwing up their efforts for years.

It was absolutely the DVD player that was the Sword of Damocles over the Sega Dreamcast. The DVD format war got so toxic, it chewed up and ate Circuit City as they got too close to a handful of distributors who thought that expensive, online-required, disposable rent-a-DVD’s were a good idea. (Divx)

But Sega was still stepping on rakes, even then.

four years between those 1997 emails and being out of the game entirely. life, and playstations, come at you fast.

Most incredible is that only 18 months after some of these emails/presentations, they not only RELEASED THE DREAMCAST, but it was GOOD

“Sure our biggest and arguably only major in house franchise is Star Trek, and yes we have a very popular kids show that is doing great work creating a whole new generation of fans we can hook for life but, and hear me out here, what if we not only destroy the already renewed show, refuse to show the second season,…

Japanese companies generally aren’t as keyed into that. Bud is already back up to where it was, Target has climbed back up to a little over half of the way but was already trending downward before Boycottpalooza in the first place, MLB changed it’s avatar after June 1st because that’s what it does every year, some regi…

I’ve never played it, but that’s hilarious. A character being gay as a big plot twist sounds like something from the ‘60s or ‘70s.