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Fair point. They basically did it with Windows 8 (engineering-wise), but that was even longer ago than the Surface Pro.

The actual hardware is irrelevant to their success unless they can pull off a Surface Pro type of innovative market lead (which we all know they can’t do anymore).

The only thing that matters is the ecosystem. Make every Windows machine an Xbox. Make the OS lean and portable. Run the same OS and games on PCs, laptops, handhelds, and set-top boxes. That’s it. Then console generations are obsolete and Sony is playing catch up.

Fun fact (because there’s nothing more fun than technicality!): Technically it wasn’t his life’s work. Well before his work on nuclear fission, Oppenheimer was actually responsible for originally theorizing the existence of both antimatter and black holes. He was a more intuitive physicist than a technical one, so he didn’t follow through on these ideas, instead letting others carry the work forward.

A lot of it is that depending on who your party ends up being, it stitches together each one’s ending, so beating the game may let you watch several of said endings. You don’t have to beat it 86 times.

That said, it’s still a crazy game.

Glad to meet a fellow traveler. It’s a gem. I should play through it again too. I have so many little retro emulator handhelds I’m sure I could get through it on one of them in my spare time.

I know! But it’s been “Coming soon” for ages now. I hope it’s still going to come out and not suck. Fear Effect Sedna was pretty damn weak.

Thanks! There was a lot of wacky fun in the PlayStation generation.

Some additional deeper cuts:

• Trap Gunner - because sending your friend on a trip around the entire level into a nest of bombs and mines never gets old.
• Syphon Filter - because, how about… the taser? (The commercial is for 2, but the first one has a better taser… trust me.)
• The Unholy War - because it‘s basically chess but with flying bladebots and chompy little toothbastards.
• Die Hard Trilogy - because it’s 3 games and one of them is inexplicably one of the better light gun games ever made.
• Ghost in the Shell - because find me another game where you drive a tank that climbs walls.
• Return Fire - because if playing Capture the Flag with military vehicles while listening to classical music isn’t a good time, I don’t know what is.
• Star Ocean: The Second Story - because an epic JRPG with 86 possible endings and dozens of different skills like Musicianship, Blacksmithing, Cooking, and Publishing most certainly is not overkill.
• Blast Chamber - because all sports would be better if they were played in a room where you can rotate gravity.
• Future Cop LAPD - because sometimes I’m just tired of conserving my ammo.
• N2O: Nitrous Oxide - because 90’s techno and lasers.

It’s one of the best, most coherent video game stories I’ve ever experienced. Super fun, utterly engrossing. The unfortunate part is the tank controls, but the story makes it totally worth it.

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - because it’s literally one of the best games ever made. So good that when it borrowed the Metroid formula pretty much wholesale, they renamed the formula Metroidvania.
• Metal Gear Solid - because it sits in the Goldilocks zone of Kojima-ness. Nutty but not impenetrable.
• Silent Hill - because everyone should know what it’s like for seventeen pixels to make them shit themselves in fear.
• Metal of Honor - because Call of Duty used to be the whippersnapper upstart. Know your roots, son.
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 - because there were THPS games with more, but there were never THPS games that were definitively better.
• Resident Evil 2 - because hitting your stride while defining a genre is a beautiful thing.
• Valkyrie Profile - because the world is ending but I really want this mermaid to be happy…
• Fear Effect - because it’s a seven hour game across four CDs but my best friend and I couldn’t put it down until we finished it on day one.
• Vigilante 8 - because they out-Twisted-Metaled Twisted Metal.
• G-Darius - because sometimes you just gotta blast a giant robot fish in the face with a screen-filling laser beam.
• Incredible Crisis - because we all have bad days.
• Tenchu - because Solid Snake shouldn’t be the only one who gets to have fun sneaking around and killing people.
• Rakugaki Showtime - because before there was Smash Bros, there was bashing the Smiley Ball for super moves and launching ICBMs against your foes.

Neptune’s pretty young. We try not to sexualize it.

Oh no, as if they’ll all vote Dem? Even if they did, Trump will win the next TOTALLY FREE AND FAIR election 99/1.

Lots of great ones mentioned here and while I don’t know if it’s my favorite, I have a deep soft spot for Super Off-Road. It has an incredible spatial sense and fluidity for its time and still holds up at any barcade.

Cuckerberg. It’s right there.

FYI, Onyx egregiously violates GPL and basically gives the finger to anyone who complains. Not that anyone is necessarily clean as a whistle and even so they’re miles better than Jeff “I dressed like a fascist before it was cool” Bezos.

I’m a big fan of Kobo, but they also used to have a connection with Walmart.

21 was a letdown for me because I read the book first. It’s a great read, fast, light, and fun. The movie just felt thin in comparison.

I swear that wasn’t there before, but maybe I overlooked it.

I mean it’s pretty obvious that she’s a Republican, but it’s weird how it’s not called out explicitly here.

They already staged a coup to install him.

Absolutely. The Analogue Pocket is dreamy and extremely capable. This is a nostalgia circle jerk from a dude who swore up and down he’d never sell out then sold out instantaneously once a sociopathic billionaire dangled some money in front of his face.