Hi.

Me? Really?

We’re also a sit outside house. Luckily October is pretty warm nowadays (wait…)

Piglet carrying Pooh up the slopes of Orodruin is a rather silly mental image.

Silly… Or heroic? It’s exactly why it works. You look at Piglet and know, definitely, there is no way that tiny little pig can carry that giant yellow bear. And yet. Heroes.

I always knew Sakurai worked hard to deliver high quality games, but after watching this video, it’s insane.

Creating a whole YouTube channel with 260 videos just because he had a few free months. Doing the majority (pre editing) in just a few months, scripting and recording nearly ever video in advance.

Absolutely wild.

I agree, but also,

That guy looks cool, imposing, badass.

That guy looks like a dork.

The real life actor played the part well, but he looked silly. I understand they were limited in what they could do, and a tall head might have looked even worse, but what they did put together just didn’t quite work.

I’d swap Pooh/Samwise and Piglet/Frodo.

Pooh/Frodo is the more adventurous type and Piglet/Samwise is the loyal tag along. Plus think of scenes like Samwise chasing after Frodo as he crosses the river. Pooh would be the one trying to adventure off and the nervous Piglet chasing after. Or Piglet carrying Pooh into Mount Doom.

404s for me as well but im guessing https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/convicted-murderer-filesystem-creator-writes-of-regrets-to-linux-list covers it.

Big Carl vibes.

Only video that’s ever made sense to me.

Yeah I’m not sure I see myself running Bastions. Obviously I’ll wait to see the actual rules, but in too many campaigns I find the party wandering far far away.

I’d like to run one more city focused, so maybe then, but then again the idea that each PC has their own just seems like A LOT of overhead. Maybe in a more downtime heavy campaign?

Legally you’re not allowed to skip the intro song. Please turn yourself in at the nearest Starbase.

#2 because it allows you to later give them a mustache (#1), which is funny but the toaster isn’t amused.

I’ve not read the books and after watching part 1 I was left confused why everyone loved them. I didn’t dislike the film, it was just fine, but it didn’t get me excited for part 2. Sure I’d watch it, but if it were delayed or cancelled I wouldn’t have minded.

For me part 2 is everything I wanted in a film. I would nearly go so far to tell someone unsure about the films to skip part 1 and just watch part 2. In reality I think doing that would be a bad idea, but part 2 is better than part 1 in nearly every way.

Rather than a Starfleet lecturer I’d prefer if he was the author of a “Things they don’t teach you at the Academy” type book.

Something like “Per Starfleet regulations dilithium crystals should be set to a quarter inch technobabble. However in a pinch you can technobabble but be warned this can cause more babbling”

For Pokemon Legends Arceus I think what would prevent me from playing it again after 100% isn’t the amount of repeated tasks to max out the Pokedex, most of which are fun and a few of which just suck. I think it’s the slow dialogue/gameplay. When playing the actual game I’m usually having fun. When I’m stuck in a forced tutorial or dialogue it’s just a slog.

Metroid Dread.

I beat the game on Normal, then went back to 100% it, then immediately played again on Hard mode, beat that and 100% it again.

If I remember correctly to 100% Mario Odyssey you need 999 moons. The game gives you 850 or so normal/good/fun moons, but the last 150 or so you have to buy with coins. For me this meant grinding a flower challenge in Bowsers Castle ~20 times in a row.

I did it, but that part wasn’t fun.

The rest of the game is perfect, but that part would keep me from 100 percenting the game again.

For anyone wondering you only need an email and and an address to checkout, once checked out you’ll get a link to download.

The email and address don’t have to be anything particularly accurate/real.

So I agree with your first part, but for the second part, why make me wait?

If I wasn’t going to buy it or was going to wait for the reviews. Now that they are out and I want to buy it, why make me wait?

The correct behavior here seems to be ignore all of influencers and ignore all of the news and ignore all the hype. Ignore all of the things the company wants me to pay attention to, because of I do pay attention then all I get is annoyed that I don’t have it yet.

Maybe what I find so frustrating is the influencer part. Specifically that YouTube videos are a terrible terrible terrible method to convince me to buy your product, this specific product.

Like if I wanted to see a film, I might watch a trailer. But in this case someone has already seen the film, and to understand what it is I have to watch them give an interpretive dance. They can’t tell me exactly what was in the film, but they can sort of dance to it and I can probably figure it out.