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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 20m

Why would they do that when they can charge $50 for a 2D-3D remake?

concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 22m

I’ll take the SNES Bubsy and pretty much any other mediocre mascot platformer over any of the collect-a-thon garbage on the N64.

Bubsy 3D is quite awful, but the 2D games are perfectly fine, if a big bland.

concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 2h

Somehow I’m on this guy’s email list and constantly get those disguised survey emails and they keep coming even after trying to unsubscribe, so pretty sure one of those California privacy and protection statutes being violated.

concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 5h

I’m going to assume part of the joke is the Dunkin’ box since nothing they sell even remotely approaches what a donut in either taste or texture.

concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 5h

The armpit of Santa Barbara county: Lompoc

concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 7h

No. There is nothing of value to be said about ‘rasslin and it’s absurd when anyone attempts to relate it in any way to something that has value or is in any way related to entertainment.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 23h

If they ever get Kojima to make RGG game.

concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 1d

I think the extent of my Tron experience will continue to remain the original movie and the Intellivision games. Clearly don’t need to pay attention to anything beyond that.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 1d

Every day Newson goes out of his way to make us nostalgic for the Jerry Brown years.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 1d

It’s probably going to be exclusive to his cars operating system and dozens of idiots will crash trying to play it while they think their robot car is driving itself and they’ll all declare it the best thing ever made.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 2d

Those were the good days. Now they pull all the seasonal stuff weeks before the holiday so there’s not even anything left to clearance out. They already have Christmas stuff encroaching into the Halloween section. In another week or so they won’t even have any Halloween candy left.

concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 3d

What about “The Touch” from Boogie Nights? Does it still work?

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 3d

You can give them a copy of the novel, you can give them a copy of the movie, you can give them a copy of the game. Just don’t make a mistake and give them a copy of the sequel to the game, that game was trash.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting. Didn’t realize it wasn’t terminology used from the start. The black box games refer to the software as a Game Pak, but maybe the early first run did not. It was definitely being used in the Nintendo Fun Club Newsletters.

concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 3d

If somehow the font of the Nintendo logo doesn’t tip it off, pretty sure Nintendo never uses the term “cartridge” and instead always used “game pak”

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 4d

Depends on the tv. Even a good quality LCD yeah, going to need to turn it up quite a bit. But on a nice quality OLED getting the brightness and contrast just right can really make a difference.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 4d

I love how they’re all licensed properties now using random clip art packages and only operate like a slot machine half the time because you hit the “bonus” and the screen changes to some crazy minigame you’re expected to frantically tap around the screen while crazy cap happens.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 6d

Now’s the time to bring back the Burger King Kids Club, don’t change a thing about them.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 6d

Nintendo and Sony aren’t giving away every brand new day one first party release to anyone paying them $10 (or whatever it is now that everyone is so upset about) for a silly subscription and pretending like it’s a sustainable business model.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 6d

But now that even that has failed those cheerleading the company are running out of excuses to blame the failure after failure on and finally have to admit they never created a sustainable platform.

concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 6d

If their games really were selling well and could sustain a platform then they wouldn’t have been spending the last decade pivoting away from the dedicated console market by shifting the customers they did have to be subscribers instead, clearly they saw more value in subscriptions.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 7d

I am speaking from a gaming perspective and it has been incredibly easy to entirely ignore and not engage with Microsoft whatsoever for the last 25 years. I buy and play plenty of games on dedicated gaming consoles, Microsoft has never once given me a reason to invest in their platform.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 7d

The “average” consumer isn’t thinking about Linux or even knows what it is. I get confused and frustrated trying to figure out how to do the simplest thing in Windows 11, I can’t imagine trying to figure out Linux. Using a computer doesn’t need to be, and isn’t, this difficult to use.

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 7d

For the bulk of computer users, which are just general public people who don’t need to do fancy computer programming work all day & night it’s incredibly easy to buy a computer that works & makes sense without having to deal with trying to figure out how to accomplish the most basic task in Windows

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concretemilkshake.bsky.social @concretemilkshake.bsky.social · 7d

sure, “thousands”

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