CrossCode is my favorite RPG of all time, and that’s a high bar. Excited for what comes next, but I dunno if I wanna start on a story-driven RPG in Early Access and then by the time it’s done I’ll have forgotten the first half of the story. I don’t mind Early Access for games that aren’t story-driven, but I think I’ll just wait until this one’s complete.

Can I just put A Silent Voice on there nine times?

I figured the red S2 carts would be cherry-flavored.

All I really care about is native Linux support. Nearly every major engine can support Linux these days and if the dev provided a build I should hope it works. But I know some engines are better/more consistent at it. If it’s something like Godot or Ren’Py I can pretty much expect the port to be perfect.

Cute finale to a cute show. Really hope this one gets a S2.

What kind of ‘something’ do you want me to do?

Fatigue. There’s just been so much and it’s kinda fucking draining if you stay plugged in to it all. It’s not like doomscrolling will make the situation any better either.

Also like, that was kind of the point of Don’t Look Up. People do just shut these things out. If you understood the movie you should know the answer to your question.

“Because that’s what Himmel would do”

“Because that’s what Ms. Frieren would do”

NateTheHate is claiming it’s Ocarina of Time.

Little late catching up, but wow, best episode yet. An invisible man trying to be seen makes for a very interesting character, and I love the visual direction of how his backstory was animated.

Simple, I can’t play Kirby Air Riders or Splatoon 3 on PC. And while I still prefer the form factor of Nintendo’s old smaller dedicated handhelds, I think the Switch (2) is still at least a little bit better at being a handheld than the much bulkier Steam Deck.

(Don’t say emulation, because even then I still can’t play online on official servers.)

Can BlueSky really be called decentralized when 99% of it is bluesky.social?

First party games do, with the lone exception of Pokopia. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, the game they’re announcing this new pricing difference for, is a proper cartridge.

I’m not happy about it, but I think it’s kind of inevitable. It’s not a question of if, but when, and it’s not only going to be Nintendo.

Not sure what you’re trying to say. The costs will get passed on to consumers. They already are, but that’d be even moreso.

Making read/writeable cartridges would increase manufacturing costs even more.

I guess it makes sense, digital should be cheaper. But I can’t shake the feeling that this might be the last generation for physical media. They’re obviously aiming to phase it out, and I don’t think it’s a matter of if, but when.

TBH, in a world with DLC and major patches, how much does physical media still matter anymore? My Splatoon 3 cart contains a 1.0 that is very very very different from the current game today, is that really any better than these controversial Game Key Cards?

I say all of this as someone who still buys physical whenever possible, but even I start to wonder if there’s still a point in that or if I’m a dinosaur clinging to what’s already dead.

In theory, if the technology worked very differently from the way it does now, I could envision a world in which AI NPCs could have potential. But knowing how LLMs actually work, knowing that a lot of the hype behind them is smoke and mirrors, I can’t see it being viable. And with the trajectory that the LLM bubble is going, I just don’t think it will ever reach a point where I’d trust it.

They’re gonna tell you this is the only way to be sure that routers don’t contain a backdoor. They’re gonna tell themselves this is the only way to be sure that routers do contain a backdoor.

The very first entry on that link is A Silent Voice. Absolutely phenomenal film, my all-time favorite in fact, but extremely not one I would show to a 6-year old child.