My car is the same. I know the current state of the infotainment based on what is entering my ears. I also know the location of the physical controls and how they alter that state without taking my eyes off the road. Non-touch screens and physical controls is fine.

But they covered her left eye! Every Anna fan knows that’s the juiciest part! 🙄

“While 98% of the fans are welcoming this, there will always be people like you,” Harada replied. “I understand and sympathize that it may not suit your personal taste, but if you prefer the old design, past works already exist. I am not taking those away from you.

“Also, you refer to yourself as ‘Anna fans’, as if you represent all Anna fans, but you should express your opinion as an individual.”

“You threaten to quit if she isn’t brought back, you complain the moment she is brought back,” he explained. “You demand that she be reverted after she has been completely redesigned from scratch, including her model and framework. And if she actually were reverted, you’d just say, ‘that’s recycling’.

“Either way, your method of expressing your opinion and the content of your argument are entirely unconstructive, utterly pointless, and, above all, disrespectful to the other Anna fans who are genuinely looking forward to her.”

I appreciate you Harada.

Sure is great that they patented the Nemesis system just to do nothing with it for the better part of a decade then shut down the studio that invented it. Brilliant use of talent and the US patent system there.

HP listens to their support staff?

If we’re allowing Trilogy as one game then I’m going to step out a bit and go with AM2R. It’s extremely good and not “for a fan remake”, just straight up good.

If we’re talking single games made/published by Nintendo I’d go with Dread for 2D. I played through that 3-4 times back to back when it came out which was a totally new behavior for me. For 3D it’s Prime 1, still the best 3D example of the genre.

Wait… what? A cursory search suggests no series revival or anything, just this game based on a single season animated show from 1991. I mean, I definitely watched it as a kid and 100% approve but still… what?!

There are so many… I’ll just go with a couple

Fallout 3 Wanderers Edition always comes to mind for making that game so much better to play and more stable than the base game. I wouldn’t replay FO3 any other way

Elden Ring Seamless Co-op is what ER co-op should have been to begin with. God it’s so good I put another couple hundred hours in to replay every inch of ER+DLC with a friend.

110% commitment to the burger and the regret. USA! USA!

And only 12 seconds to regret.

The GitHub issue was quite the ride yesterday. Today it appears the user is gone from GitHub completely, taking the repo with it.

I’m glad the RPCS3 team jumped on that. The opened GH issue was straight to the point without any attacks or other BS. Good work from them.

I would expect the teenage years to be where most people’s sociopathy peaks before trailing off as they continue to mature emotionally.

The thing in the comic doesn’t hold a candle to Metyr. Elden Ring, for all your freaky weird hand monster needs!

If that laptop didn’t want to be a server, then why would it have a built-in UPS?

It took Valve years to build Steam into the juggernaut it is based on maximizing customer value and minimizing friction. Years! Like multiple of them! Who has time for that! I need my profits this quarter!

That’s unfortunate. It sounds like they recognized the burnout, that their new project was poorly scoped and would not be completed without further damaging personal relationships, so they pulled the plug. A healthy decision IMO. I wonder if any other small developers following up an initial big success need to learn from this? 🍒

Staying on the Zelda tip, I’ll always have a place in my heart for Crystalis (1990) on the NES. More linear than Zelda but with significantly more RPG elements worked in.

If you want to get even more obscure, both Neutopia (1989) and Neutopia II (1991) for the TG-16 are great! Extremely obvious Zelda inspiration but they hold up well on their own merits.

That’s an interesting perspective. Please enjoy having our stupid bullshit slightly further away from your face for a while! My only option is sticking my head in this hole in the ground.

One of my strongest gaming memories growing up was beating Silver Star Story sitting in a cramped hotel room in the middle of a Minnesota blizzard. My parents let me lug along my PSX on this road trip and I beat the last boss on last possible hit. Like everyone dead but the main character, if I didn’t win this round then the boss would wipe me next time around. I had a full on throw the controller in the air, run circles around the 6’ of open floor space in the hotel room, kind of celebration. My parents… didn’t get it, but that’s okay 😆

I never did get around to finishing Eternal Blue. Maybe this will be my excuse to pick it up again.

Woah CrossCode looks right up my alley. How have I missed that for the past… 6 years?!? Thanks!