Pretty much the same. I’ll look at the post or headline or whatever and make my assessment of if I want to see more like that. If I see downvotes already there tho, I try to figure out why. Sometimes the post does turn out to be spammier or more controversial or more factually wrong than it first appeared.
Thought this looked really good!
The uncut gameplay reveal approach is a little weird when combined with the mostly-cinema beginning of the game. Might’ve been nice to see more gameplay and less setup.
I dig how goofy Frank the cube is. But I can see those quirky random characters really rubbing some folks the wrong way.
I get they were going for more violent, but the blood is like, distractingly a lot. There’ll be an option to turn it off/down, right?
Because it’s so simple, it applies to psychology (including for humans) very broadly. Remove the context of dog and food and bell.
event -> reward -> response
becomes
event -> response
And being able to predict or control behavior (responses) without providing value (rewards) is a powerful concept.
Edit: instead of ‘without providing value’, I should have phrased that to be more generic.
Oh, that’s good to hear! Always had the impression that the blob-free distros caused compatibility headaches, but glad to be wrong I suppose.
Edit: And I should say I didn’t mean to pick on Trisquel in particular, it was just the one GNU recommended distro I remembered by name.
O-U-L-D
Took me a sec too
I generally think of GNU as being foundational (or, old) and principled.
I really appreciate the contributions they’ve made to both core utilities and especially philosophy.
But I don’t see them as lighting up the world or adding anything new lately. I think of vaporware like Hurd with 1000 year dev cycles. I think of them recommending Linux distributions like Trisquel that let perfect be the enemy of pretty good.
I think I had similar impressions. Loved the fast pace, great animations, the plethora of references to all sorts of games. It’s a nonstop audiovisual treat of a nostalgia trip.
Thinking about it after, some of the plot really makes me mad. Mainly the backstory of Bowser’s bed time story to Jr. Other stuff like that, everything that happens just happens or gets moved on by the dumbest, hollowest reasons. There’s no excuse for the choppy story. It can be for children, it can be action focused, but the little bit that is there doesn’t have to be frustratingly vapid.
And yet… I come away overall really liking it. I’d hoped I could say without caveats that it was great, and I can’t. But I was smiling the whole time, and it didn’t overstay the welcome.
I haven’t tried it yet, but Mina the Hollower just released and seems really cool. Should be way less than 20 GB.
There are a lot of good ones. I’ll just highlight Streets of Rage 2. Plays great, music is great, looks good. It’s my favorite game on either system.
Shining Force
It started out really slow, but now I’m mid-late game. I’ve got a band of characters I like and I’m on the cusp of promoting most of them.
It’s older and less refined than other games I’ve played in the genre (ie, Fire Emblems), but it’s been a good time.
One of my first memories of being disillusioned with media, having my hopes up and being let down was TPM. I went and saw it, kinda convinced myself it was cool…
Then a couple days later, someone was asking me about, and they asked what happened. I took a moment to think and finally had to come back and say ‘idk, I guess nothing really’.
The two longest and most memorable waits I’ve done were for the Wii and Wii U.
The Wii was great. Was a very social, collaborative experience.
Got to the store probably at 6 or 7 am. Two people were in front of me in line. The first would show up in my circle of friends years later, and I didn’t even realize until going back and looking at the pictures. The other was an older gentleman getting in line for his son, and when his son did show up later it turned out to be a friend of mine. I just hadn’t met his dad before.
At first we were in the lobby, then moved to the garden center, eventually to outside the front entrance before noon. Employees didn’t really know to expect us or what to do with us.
Everyone had their DSes and we spent most of the day playing something or other. Toward the end of the night, when the crowd got bigger, I remember doing 8-person Bomberman battles.
It was a cold November day. By the evening, I was freezing and hungry. My parents and some friends swung by at different times to bring blankets, snacks, etc, and those felt like such exciting moments.
Fast forward to the Wii U. I got a preorder, but they said there weren’t enough preorders to do a midnight launch. Stubbornly wanting to relive the great time I had waiting for the Wii, that was enough to make me drive over to the next big town and wait at a different store.
For a long time, I think I’m the only one in line? Or maybe someone was before me. Idk. But the line didn’t build up until like, an hour before midnight. I talked to people, but didn’t really connect with anyone strongly.
The cold was bitter this time. I was layered up way more, but felt as tho I was barely hanging in by the end of it. Folks in line kept asking if I was alright, offering to hold my place in line if I wanted to go take a break and warm up in the car.
I don’t know that we did any multiplayer sessions, but it was cool at least to get 3DS streetpass hits all day.
After all of it, I could just as easily have walked into a store the next weeks and bought one.
So yeah, the Wii was a moment for me, the U was a failed attempt to revisit that moment (a lot like the systems themsleves, kinda). Then there’s the difference between being in high school, hanging out with friends in your home town, and being in college keeping to yourself.
TIL Nintendo is still selling Hanafuda cards in Japan.
It’s fun to see which games get cool borders or color palettes!
I have not noticed the faster frame rates. But I’m one of those weirdos who couldn’t tell you 30 from 60 unless I’m staring hard at a side by side or something. So take me with a grain of salt, lol.
Really it’s up to your preference. I like the Super Game Boy for plain GB games and GB Player for Color/Advance. But the cost on the latter is annoying, so if it were me I’d start with the SGB and enjoy that for a while since you already have SNES hardware.
Project M and Brawl Minus were a ton of fun!
They’re Smash Brawl fan mods where the game gets totally reworked. The former makes it like Melee, while the latter makes everything ridiculous.
There are others too that I haven’t spent the time with. Melee itself has a mod with a few new chars, and Smash 64 has an extensive remix.
Mostly digging through past albums of bands I already like. My music taste has largely fossilized. And I realize that the artists I claim to enjoy, I’ve rarely explored their whole discography. So I try to do that. And when I feel like I’ve exhausted favorites, there are plenty of not-quite-favorites to give a deeper look at.
So I’m not looking for new groups too often. But when I am, these resources are useful:
So glad they don’t. A lot of modern layouts would do well to change to something simpler.
It’s the first game that came to mind for me, too. Destruction there is very satisfying!
Buuuut people keep shooting at you. When playing it, I got constantly annoyed with the TPS elements and just wanted to tear stuff up. After a bit I bounced for that reason.