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  • Luigi’s Mansion is now Available on Nintendo GameCube

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  • and yet i went to the store today and they had no gamecube games????

  • K&T Host, a hosting provider for many Fediverse software including Lemmy has announced they're shutting down

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  • aw hell! K&T are great, that's a real shame

  • What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?

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  • to think all the money and effort we've wasted trying to create fusion in a lab when what we really needed was a really, really, really good pitcher

  • What is the most controversial TV finale?

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  • it's both ironic and cruel that throrough SG-1 and early Atlantis they made the season endings so ambigious so often just in case there would be no next season, and then they do a left-field ending like this that would have been fine enough if the next season had them flying back to pegasus episode 1, so naturally this finale ends up being the finale finale. of course!

    i'd love to see an animated movie pick up from there and wrap everything up- that way some of the original cast can come back but not all of them are needed and they can continue the story without needing to explain why atlantis was on earth for 20 years

  • For a game called "Dungeons & Dragons" there is a shocking lack of both dungeons and dragons

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  • But these so-called "dungeons"? No captives. Not even any cells. That's not a dungeon. that's a glorified cave.

    I've always wondered how the term "dungeon" as it's used in RPGs came to be. a lot of appendix N literature had locations we would now consider dungeons, but were they called that at the time? and then the first RPG dungeon was the literal dungeon under Blackmoor Castle, but very early on we had dungeons that stopped being literal dungeons- didn't B1 and B2 exclusively have cave "dungeons?" and the Ruined Tower of Zenopus in the first Basic book had underground portions but I think those were caves too!

  • Commodore needles Microsoft over end of Windows 10, tries to lure disgruntled users to its Linux-based OS Vision 3.0 — 'Microsoft may be leaving you behind. We Won't.'

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  • turns out commodore really is keeping up with you

  • If you could travel back 50 to 60 years and introduce one piece of modern music to a band or a musician of the time, who would you choose and what song would you expose them to?

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  • jim morrison predicted that some day a single person will be able to produce a full song with machines but never lived to see it happen, so i'm not sure exactly what but i'd definitely show him something entirely arranged and rendered on a computer

  • Built to last

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  • the artist, keith stack, uses to do daily comics leading up to major releases, hiding a countdown in each comic

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  • If nothing else, I will say it's been a long road...

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  • also worth checking out Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 if you haven't already, both have a lot of Trek in their DNA (and in B5's case there was cross-polination in both directions)

  • The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

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  • i think about this every time i open outlook on my phone and have to wait a full minute for it to load and hopefully not crash, versus how it worked more or less instantly on my phone ten years ago. gajillions of dollars spent on improved hardware and improved network speed and capacity, ans for what? machines that do the same thing in twice the amount of time if you're lucky

  • I had a quiet game of tennis yesterday.....

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  • no racquet? i think you were playing hand ball

  • Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?

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  • i would watch all of the above. with discovery at the very least the first four seasons, because S2 is a backdoor season 0 of strange new worlds and S4 rocks but needs the context of the first 3. it can be very uneven but i don't think it gets bad as often as Picard did and doesn't stay bad for as long as Picard does. Enterprise is similar, a rough-at-times ride that does really pay off in S3

    you're only gonna watch one, though, i'd do strange new worlds. it's essentially a return to the TOS/TNG format and has a stellar cast. and frankly you don't need to watch disco S2 to fully know what's going on, they explain everything- i only watched disco after snw S1 left me hungry for more. SNW is seemingly unique among trek shows in that every season has been less well recieved than the last, partly because the short seasons are increasingly dedicated to gag episodes, but i'd say with the exception of one particular stinker in S3, a weaker SNW episode is still gonna be better than most shows at their best

    but also- you're your own person and may walk away from all of these series feeling someghing different! no harm on trying and if you hate something hey, it only cost you 40 minutes of your life

  • Is Dune derivative?

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  • i've heard this called the Seinfeld effect, where Seinfeld was so influential on sitcoms that built off of it that it seems generic in hindsight

  • This is what alignment does to your brain [Dungeons & Dragons/Pathfinder]

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  • plenty of folks are playing old editions or clones thereof now though

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  • appropriate given they've been screaming "DON'T YOU WANT ME" at disinterested parties all this time

  • What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?

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  • i still think Balan Wonderworld was awesome. the single button controls were refreshing after three decades of controller bloat, the suits felt like a fun evolution of the character switching from LEGO Star Wars, the game is full of weird nooks and crannies that constantly had me thinking "i can't believe they thought of that," and the music and art kick ass. there are definitely areas that could be improved and i think we were all hoping for something more kinetic from Sonic Team alum but it's still ultimately one of the better AAA games in the last few years. i still don't understand the backlash, especially after the crickets Naka's previous and signifigantly worse game Rodea the Sky Soldier got

  • Sources to purchase mp3s?

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  • +1 for Bandcamp. they often run a "bandcamp friday" event where they waive their cut of all music sold that day, so almost everything (payment processors still take a cut) goes to the artist. there are also self-hosted alternatives to bandcamp like faircamp

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks

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  • something that i think gets lost in the sauce in thrse discussions is whether fun is derived from playing or winning. people are comparing Silksong- and to get ahead of it right now i haven't played and am not criticizing either of the Hollow Knights- to old arcade and early console games and their legendary difficulty, but a lot of those games were meant to be complete and fun experiences even if you game over very early on. they also didn't have levels full of bespoke Stuff in them, it was the same few tiles and entities in different configurations., so being stuck on level 1 didn't mean you were missing out on a narrative and worldbuilding. with how the lines have blurred between games and narrative art forms in the last few decades, there are different incentives at play and someone stuck on world 1 of SMB isn't missing out nearly as much as someone stuck on whatever the first stage of Silksong is. it's all ultimately apples and oranges