To the same point: for a second I was astonished that they even stopped walking for a second, before realizing that it was the video feed.

Absolutely unrepentant people.

Now they’ve got these cute lil guys fighting each other 😭

Well, better than letting them bring harm to humans. Slava Ukraini!

I try to use em dashes when I can, but I think they’re used wrong in the comment above (IIRC they’re not supposed to be surrounded by spaces, but I could be wrong). What tips me off is the unambiguously “LLM” narrative voice and structure (“let’s break it down”, followed by an ordered list). Not that a human can’t type that, but sometimes it seems like ChatGPT is incapable of spitting out words in any other structure.

Tbh I have no idea. I’ve only ever played single-player!

I had the same thought! Immediately pictured the very beginning of HL:Alyx

Let’s not forget SuperTuxKart!

That just means that those who care about humanity should never ever stop or ease the diplomatic pressure. Show him what it means to be an actual leader, not a despot.

Not to dogpile on you (I am a fellow grammar-enjoyer), but on either side of “god forbid” you used hyphens—with spaces—in the place of em dashes 🙂

I wish more people were as passionate about language as you seem to be.

Technically it was never released, but I was invited to a closed alpha (or beta?) for a game called Chroma, by Harmonix, the OG Guitar Hero people. It was a lot of fun and I’m still sad that it was canceled…

No love for Bawls? When I was younger the best LAN parties had Bawls. I think they still make it; no idea if it tastes the same.

You’re right, the tracks are pretty short. But since the game is from my childhood it just has that special something in my heart, you know? And I also agree that the controls could have been better. If you make it to the part where he jumps into the robot dinosaur (my PFP, I forgot to add), there’s a nice variety of weapon pickups to keep the combat at least a tiny bit interesting.

Either way, I’m glad you gave it a shot!

I must admit, nostalgia has an outsized influence on my enjoyment of the things I grew up with, but I’m glad other people are giving it a chance! Like the other person said, the music is a little repetitive, but a lot of games were like that back then. Not everyone can be Koji Kondo!

There’s a game for the NES called Dynowarz and the main character’s name is Professor Proteus. The game is… not great. I loved it as a kid even though I was terrible at it. The music rules though, and I’ll die on that hill.

I’ve never seen a single other person talk about this game since I played it back in the early 90s so I wanted to give it some love 😊

I’ve always been very curious about this technology, but I imagine that they wouldn’t be as good at transmitting high frequencies. I’m no audio engineer so it’s only a hunch of course. Do they sound comparable to a decent pair of buds in the ear?

The other day, someone in one of the gaming communities posted a comparison of the progress of video games from mid-90s to mid-aughts, and a more recent decade. It was clearly meant to be slightly exaggerated since the the recent screenshots were all the same one from fortnite, but the point still stands.

I wouldn’t trade my 90s childhood for anything in the world.

Conservatives love to control the narrative by forcing people to deny their ridiculous claims, so do it right back.

Force them to keep denying that they owe France the statue so the admin will never stop legitimizing the idea with their pissbaby tantrums.

I couldn’t agree more with everything you said. It’s an indisputable masterpiece.

Oh I agree 100% on your point about using a guide, but I have this weird fixation on beating it as if I had gotten it on release when I was a kid. The only thing I’m allowing myself is a PDF of the manual that came with it, and no save states. I finally played and beat Super Metroid just recently with the same restrictions (on my childhood SNES and a real cartridge!) and it felt very satisfying.

As for my long-term patience, I have a second monitor and countless hours of long-form YouTube content to keep me entertained through the mundane moments.

I’ll definitely give Samus Returns a try as well. Thanks for the recommendation!

Metroid II, the original one for Game Boy. I want to play AM2R eventually but I want to properly appreciate the work that went into it. And I’m trying my hardest to do it, so far successfully, without consulting a map.

So far I have:

• bomb
• spider ball
• spring ball
• high jump boots
• Varia suit
• wave beam (replaced the ice beam)

After more than seven hours I’m starting to go insane, but my stubbornness knows no bounds. I’ve seen every room of the game at least 20 times and probably bombed every single tile. The only place I know for a fact is new is, well, entirely submerged in lava. I’m at an impasse 😞

Lancia

Sad to see that name here, but they’re nothing like they were in the Group B days. At least my ultimate dream car will never have ads, even if I’ll never be able to afford the car itself 🥲