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Not to be confused with She Sees Red, which is also available for Switch (and worthwhile, if you like FMV games).

It’s after Tri-Force Heroes and before the decline of Hyrule Kingdom and The Legend of Zelda, on the “hero fails” branch from Ocarina of Time.

https://www.nintendo.com/jp/character/zelda/en/history/index.html

It links to Eurogamer. Good lord is their site pure cancer without an ad blocker. Here’s the seven-sentence article without the dozen ads:

After 31st March 2026, the digital store will no longer sell games, plus free trials will no longer be available. Then, from 15th May 2026, Nintendo will stop all download and code redemption services, meaning DLC will no longer be redeemable.

All other network-related services will also end on 15th May 2026.

Nintendo has not stated why it’s ending these services in the country.

However, it is launching a reward programme providing users with up to four Nintendo games for free for WeChat users. These will be redeemable between 27th November 2024 to 31st March 2026.

Users can choose between:

• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• Super Mario Party
• Mario Tennis Aces
• Yoshi’s Crafted World
• Flexible Brain School
• Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Exercises
• Kirby Star Allies
• New Pokémon Snap
• Pokémon Go! Pikachu
• Pokémon Let’s Go! Eevee

Yep, I have a uConsole. I’ve used it for playing text adventure games on flights. It has a Pi CM4 and a couple large Li-ion batteries, but it only lasts about 4 hours or so before it needs to be charged. A little silly.

Fire Emblem for Famicom (the North American release for Switch). I like the series, but this is the first time playing the original. It’s surprising how little the core gameplay loop has evolved in that time, but it started off great.

Grand Theft Auto for DOS. I went in with the idea of finishing the original game, but I’m not sure how long I’ll keep it up. It really hasn’t aged well. When I played it back in the day I just screwed around for half an hour at a time, which I think is probably what most people did.

Your character and every vehicle control like tanks, the camera zoom is bad, the cars are nearly impossible to control at high speeds (never mind the motorcycles), it’s incredibly difficult to accurately aim, there are no characters to speak of, the timers are out of control, the directions are all “as the crow flies,” and (perhaps as a result) the cities are often frustrating to navigate.

Almost anything sounds better than TV speakers, but if you’re going to spend the money, it really is better to just go to 5.1.

I’ve had a 5.1 setup for 20 years. Back then I was playing the original Xbox on 720p widescreen and surround speakers, and it was glorious. My first setup was the cheapest all-in-one speaker/receiver set available for a fresh college graduate earning next to nothing and deep in credit card and student debt.

I think I’ve gone through three sets of speakers now, three receivers, and two subwoofers. I like to stay up on technology, but you don’t really have to upgrade very often or at all, if you like. I currently have some pretty nice Pioneer speakers with towers for left and right, and I wired my room for 5.1 outlets when I renovated my basement earlier this year. No more visible wires!

I thought about doing 7.1 or 7.2, but ultimately I didn’t want to cut holes and try to fish wire across and down with how my ceiling is. 4K and 5.1 will probably always be enough for me.

If Craig is the floor I’m really looking forward to the next Bond movie

Not a good fit for Bond (IMO), but that movie looks great!

This is the wrong forum for this post

Regarding the religious references, Scott’s intention was evidently that the architects created mankind, Jesus was an Engineer sent to course correct our development, and then when he was crucified, the Engineers decided mankind was a mistake. The script states that they decided to wipe us out about two thousand years ago. He revealed his intention in an interview in 2012 after some people had connected the dots (as I did while watching it in the theater).

The earlier scripts were much more full of religious references, to the point where the Engineer at the beginning is given the black goo in a consecrated ceremony that started with “this is the blood of our Lord.”

Honestly, the movie never really worked in any iteration, and was always a bizarre direction to take a space horror franchise.

But we were asleep at the wheel. My advisors, who frankly no longer are with me, were asleep at the wheel, certainly. And I partly blame myself, except I was busy making other films. And so it was let go and it shouldn’t have been. When you resurrect, you better put your nail into the wall.

Gotcha, Ridley. The directors for 3 and 4 fucked up the sequels, and your advisors are to blame for Prometheus, and there’s a little blame for you except not really of course because you were busy.

Built my first web page with FrontPage back in the mid '90s… but soon stopped using it after I realized the absolutely spaghetti it produced

Boy, this all sounds like a lot of work to me. I just invest in domestic index funds and check it every six months or so.

I have at least started being much more careful about waiting a year for capital gains, though. My last tax bill was terrifying.

I watched this on Disney+ tonight but didn’t really care for it. There were a couple good laughs, but the multiverse stuff really ruins just about anything it touches. The movie also just seemed too mean spirited toward the classic characters, which I guess it signaled clearly from the very first scene. Let them be.

Edit: I guess I hurt an MCU fan’s feelings by not loving a movie.

Tom Cruise is a bit like Harrison Ford. They’re both good actors, but most of the time they’re playing themselves. Or maybe they both have such a force of personality that you only see the actor. Harrison Ford has also had films where he does a good job disappearing into the role, like Mosquito Coast and Regarding Henry.

But those were like 1.0.1, 1.0.2… where the Special Editions would be 2.0. I don’t know that anyone really cares about the “mini” version changes. When they talk about the original, they mean 1.0.x.

This is it. Democrats will continue to talk about how they failed at execution so they don’t have to talk about the real problem: their platform. At least with Trump some folks think there’s a chance he shakes apart the whole system.

I voted for Harris, but I knew it was a lost cause from the moment she became the de facto nominee. She was a status quo candidate in a change election.

It’s the most evenly divided district in Oregon in partisan terms and she ran on a “bipartisan” theme. She’d be pretty hard-pressed to make her case.

The Republicans were absolutely inundating the district with the most vile stuff, like how she “voted in favor of rapists.” They dramatically outspent her campaign.

I’m really happy she won.