Not to defend SC too much, and full disclosure I don’t play it. But I have friends who DO play it and it seems like they are having a lot of fun?

They aren’t evangelists for the game or anything, so its not a fanboy situation. They just play it a lot, and with lots of other people. They have an online community and meet up IRL for events. Post vids of their exploits. It seems fun to me? I asked them about the bugs and stuff and they fully admit it is buggy and things are broken, they make no apologies for it. They figure out workarounds and share it with the crew. I don’t know, these guys are usually pretty critical of games but they seem happy weirdly. Maybe a cult?

There is no fucking way that I am ever going to pay for a fake star ship or anything so I’m not even considering it. And the entire funding model of the game seems batshit insane to me. But to me it seems like the idea that the game is unplayable doesn’t really match the reality? Its clearly not a good value proposition at all.

Its weird I know I shouldn’t but I kind of love NMS. Its such a broad but shallow game but I cant help but spend hours on it. Being able to just jet off to a new system and explore is excellent.

“one on boil” is such a good expression for charging batteries. Stealing that.

The NES sesame Street games are pretty good.

My youngest loved sesame Street countdown. it was really forgiving and taught her basic platformer mechanics.

Marathon.

It gets better! Its actually a Sensor Watch in disguise!

🤫

I mean when viewed from the perspective of his world it makes sense.

He lives in a world where substance is meaningless and all that matters is appearance and bravado. I can appreciate why to him that seems like good advice. Just kinda bums me out people live like that, but I bet he’s happy having power and influence and money. Good for him.

I couldn’t and wouldn’t fuckin live that way and I will stick with my Casio a158, thanks.

Most of my friends I know who went the kishi route instead of a stand alone emu handheld when I was rocking the rg355xxsp have since ditched it and acquired some manner of handheld, some even just opted for a legit GBA sp with a flashcart.

reasons I have heard:

• Got tired of draining my battery

• My phone doesn’t have an SD slot and so I was not able/didn’t want to load it with roms

• it didn’t fit in my pocket or was clumsy to use on the bus.

Your milage may vary. I still have a couple friends still just using their phone and they seem happy so take that as you will.

I think you’re definitely right.

There was a year in college where my friends and I grinded the real smb2 when it was available on the Wii shop.

It destroyed us. I don’t think we ever beat it. We were stuck on the third world for most of the year and it was super deflating.

I still go back every now and then to get through it and even with save states it’s just a gauntlet.

I love it for that though.

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I dont get the hysteria, personally.

I came here to escape the crowds, not migrate with them.

Wow, thats some wild hyperbole there.

GIMP really needs its Blender moment.

It is a long road, getting from there to here. I say make your own way. I have opinions about Trek that the larger community seems to disagree with pretty strongly but meh.

My unsolicited lukewarm take/advice is; don’t let them tell you whats good and whats bad, decide for yourself. Just like Star Wars theres a lot to love, and sure a lot to criticize. Sometimes criticism is fun, but I’ve long since left behind fans who make their entire relationship with the franchise about how bad X or Y is. Its exhausting.

For sure. Nobody hates Star Trek more than Star Trek fans.

Blender. I feel pretty confident in saying that there is simply nothing like it in the commercial world. Its feature set is unreal; its like the swiss army knife of 3D modelling programs. I can’t say enough good things about Blender. It has replaced so many secondary programs in my workflow and is slowly dominating to become my entire workflow.

It used to suck to use in the late 2010s and then work was done to overhaul its space-shuttle cockpit interface, and now it actually feels concise and usable. I freaking love blender now. Big time blender fanboy right here.

I appreciate that he managed to make both Star Trek and Star Wars fans very angry. That took serious skill.

Jeeze. Sorry to hear that. Love mine. Maybe the quality jumped with the 2+ 🤷‍♂️

Yeah I noticed that part too and just sort of randomly started equiping stuff. Usually I’m lost in RPGs so I’m just rolling with it.

All mac computer lab (rev a/b iMacs), locked down with foolproof. No problem; bring a zip drive and boot from it by holding down option at startup. Use resedit to edit the extension for foolproof and remove all its resources. Extension no longer works.

Reboot into a completely unrestricted finder. Good times.