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  • Spare a thought for the animatronic Yoshi who remained stone cold sober for the entire shoot.

  • Bend is best-known for Days Gone and, back in the day, Syphon Filter

    Are we just gonna pretend Bubsy 3D never existed?

  • Just adding on to this, I do think the "up-specced OG hardware" approach something Nintendo has done before. Upgrades like GC to Wii and Game Boy to Game Boy Color are really just boosts to the clock speeds and RAM, they don't have anything specifically included for BC reasons (unless you're counting GameCube memory card slots). They really are just iterations on the same hardware. Similar to the New 3DS, on modded consoles you can run GameCube games at Wii clock speeds and they almost all work without issue.

    On that subject, the fact that Nintendo says the compatibility won't be 100% is potentially encouraging. If the Switch 2 was just going to downclock compatible parts to their Switch 1 performance and was otherwise identical, you'd expect all games to work. The reduction in compatibility could be because games are going to be running with Switch 2 clocks across the board, which most games should handle just fine and a small handful may not.

  • That is how every previous Nintendo back-compat implementation has worked.

    • GC on Wii
    • Wii on Wii U
    • Game Boy on Game Boy Color
    • Game Boy/Color on Game Boy Advance
    • Game Boy Advance on (New) Nintendo (3)DS
    • Nintendo DS on Nintendo DSi
    • Nintendo DS/i on Nintendo 3DS
    • Nintendo 3DS on New Nintendo 3DS

    In every case, the system drops back to the earlier console's hardware specifications. There are hybrid cross-gen games on some of the handhelds which offer improvements on the newer hardware, but up to this point, older games have never been updated to get the improvements of newer hardware. That doesn't necessarily mean the same will hold, but I'd suggest you assume it will and be pleasantly surprised if they buck the trend.

  • I wonder if the magic rule understands double negatives. If you tell a vampire "You ain't never coming in here," can they enter? What about sarcasm? "Oh yeah, I'm definitely inviting you in."

  • "No"

    Jump
  • It's the name of one of the main characters in the Comedy Central sitcom Workaholics.

  • Would you care to speculate how your psychoanalysis of Internet commenters leading you to describe them with what would generally be regarded as personal insults--jealous, insecure, immature, assholes, smug bastards, emotional--makes people feel? In this discussion about how you desire for people to be nicer to each other, it's worth considering.

    To be clear, toxic people are majorly unpleasant and you're right to call people out for throwing around personal insults in a place where we hopefully all want to come to have to or see civil interactions and maybe sometimes have a bit of fun.

  • "Fry, remember when I told you about always ending your sentences a word earlier?"

  • They're considering 26% to be low. There's 46% support for military round-ups and internment camps among Republican voters compared with 26% among all voters surveyed.

  • It's a shame that's not what they released on Sega CD. Presumably because of licensing issues, the arcade game has never seen any home release. This was the one chance and instead it's a pretty standard FMV game.

  • That's a pretty normal part of the fediverse. Somebody from your instance has to be subbed to a community for your instance to start pulling in its posts. Anything that was posted while nobody was subbed doesn't exist on your end.

  • That's not an astronaut, that's a TV comedian! And he was just using space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife.

  • Return all the Alarmos to the sea from whence they came.

  • Even calling Trump's election fraud claims "unproven" is lending them far too much weight. "Unsupported" is probably the most charitable way to describe them.

  • It makes sense when you realize they take "women's health" to mean literally one thing only: access to abortions.

  • The implication I got was that Agatha was giving Rio bodies in a sort of unspoken deal to keep Nicky alive--hence her coming and taking him when Nicky backed out. Going a step further, maybe Rio knew that Nicky was no longer going to go along with the plan after this one time that he refused, so he no longer served her needs.

    The idea there would be that Agatha can't face him because of the deal she made him an unwitting party to. Based on his nature and how Agatha described him, it seems like if he had known why they were out killing witches constantly (trading their entire lives for an extension of his own), he would not approve.

  • Yoshi's Woolly World probably still counts. It got a 3DS port, but it's a game whose visual identity is a huge part of the appeal, most of which is lost when running at 240p. In terms of games that probably should be on Switch, I think the Zelda remakes and Yoshi are the last ones. Kirby and the Rainbow Curse and Nintendo Land would both be hurt by porting to a system with "normal" controls, to the extent that they probably won't bother.

  • I get the argument, but email is also very different to the kind of open-web network that the fediverse resides in. There are problems the fediverse faces which email doesn't like discoverability. The emails either come to you or they don't. With federated social media, you have to find the content you're looking for first. Maybe you use a search engine, or somebody gives you a business card with their handle and instance, whatever. Then you have to figure out how to view those posts from your home instance if you want to actually interact in any way. There's browser extensions and stuff which try to make this easier, but that's another thing that has to be explained and set up, plus not everyone is visiting from a web browser with extension support, or a web browser at all for that matter.

    It's not fundamentally impossible to understand the fediverse, but there's more of a barrier than email, which can be explained in a single sentence like "Your email provider gives you a unique address that anybody else can send emails to and vice versa." I don't think convincing ourselves that the fediverse is actually very simple is going to convince people outside the bubble that that's true.