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Re: WayForward Distances Itself From ModRetro's Re-Release Of Sabrina: Zapped! On Game Boy Color

The_Nintend_Pedant

@jamess

I don't believe in black or white thinking, but I have no problem saying that Palmer Luckey is a bad person and I'll have no part in supporting him or hesitation speaking the truth about him πŸ‘ and, I do not consider this a political position, but a moral one. Yes, as in right and wrong.

Welcome to TE πŸ˜…βœŒοΈ

(Just a quick thought, "only shades of grey" is no better than "black and white." in fact, it's worse because you don't really stand for anything, nor do you draw the line anywhere. making firm, informed decisions does not itself make you a "black and white thinker," in my opinion.)

Re: WayForward Distances Itself From ModRetro's Re-Release Of Sabrina: Zapped! On Game Boy Color

The_Nintend_Pedant

@jamess

Whoops I edited sorry. πŸ˜–

(I re-edited my post to include the words you were actually responding to. I hate it when people switch it out on me and I did not intend to do that to you ✌️✌️)

My point is that you clearly DO want to engage, or else you wouldn't have clicked, read, commented. ✌️

Which is fine, I totally want to engage in this conversation, so long as it is happening. It's OK to be up front about that.

Re: Boomer Shooter 'Hellscreen' Cancels Upcoming Episodes Due To Game's "Severe Under Performance"

The_Nintend_Pedant

@Honkshot

I tend to agree with you, "Retro" genres are either for people who have played em all and are looking for new experiences, or for interested people who "missed it the first time" but generally play "new" games on "new" consoles. IMO.

Personally I am pretty happy to just play the old faves while the world keeps on spinning. πŸ˜‚ I haven't played a "boomer shooter" yet that is anywhere near as enjoyable as Doom 2, Doom 64, Blood, Hexen, or Quake. ✌️ But I'm open to it!

Re: WayForward Distances Itself From ModRetro's Re-Release Of Sabrina: Zapped! On Game Boy Color

The_Nintend_Pedant

@Hexapus

This is a 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 comment, and add a 🀘 for the Slayer lyrics. πŸ™‚πŸ‘

Have you heard Dystopia? They are my all time favorite metal band:

"This has been built for you and me
Maniacal annihilation machine
Using fear to keep you in control
"Every one else is the terrorist"
That's what you've been sold"

"And do you buy it?
Yes you f-cking do
You buy everything in sight
You eat whatever they are feeding you
You buy a piece of poisoned happiness
And suckle system's boob
Your freedom's nothing more than a lie
And America is killing you
Seems like we aid in every war
And we are friends with whom we abhor
Always at the expense of the poor
If it were the rich
There would be no more war"

"R-pe and conquest feed your kids
Gets you "things". Things you equate with freedom
If you want an SUV, we'll have to kill some children
And you don't f-cking care
As long as you are not impaired
Giving money to the system
To enlist the poor and kill them
It's the American way
And you're a f-cking slave

And the simple fact is this:
You're the f-cking terrorist"

"And I was trained like you
Dumbed down through church and school
In the end it's just my luck
I'm a product of where my parents f-cked"

"I'm American because my parents f-cked! (In America)
'Thank you, mom and dad!'"

Re: WayForward Distances Itself From ModRetro's Re-Release Of Sabrina: Zapped! On Game Boy Color

The_Nintend_Pedant

@Sketcz

"I could not care less about beardy's actions."

I literally just don't know what to say 😬

Can we agree that opposition to genocide is a 100% apolitical position?

"it's feeling like I need to increasingly remove myself from the human element."

It's interesting you say that, because the guy you're totally OK with supporting but not ever talking about "feels the need to increasingly remove people around the globe from 'the human element.'"

(Murder. He murders them.)

Re: Boomer Shooter 'Hellscreen' Cancels Upcoming Episodes Due To Game's "Severe Under Performance"

The_Nintend_Pedant

@rpgaymer

See? Now I feel like I'm the only one enjoying our exchange. πŸ˜•

I wouldn't be so quick to assume the positions of others, fwiw. A person can asses correctly that something or other is ageist, or derisive, or anything else without taking personal offense or having any other kind of emotional response. Perhaps you lack objectivity in your own assessments. πŸ€” In my case, I was using these points of fact among others to argue for one genre name over another.

Re: Boomer Shooter 'Hellscreen' Cancels Upcoming Episodes Due To Game's "Severe Under Performance"

The_Nintend_Pedant

@rpgaymer

I missed the part where I said I was offended. But, the irony of jumping out of the woodwork, pointing fingers and clutching pearls at the "offended millennial" is not lost on me. πŸ˜‰

Respectfully, I think you are very wrong and that it means what I said it means. ✌️ I've never heard or seen your definition, and it makes even less sense than the nonsensical definition I was arguing against. So IDK what to say. πŸ‘

EDIT - you broke seven straight years of lurking in silence just to say this to me πŸ˜‚

I'm honored ❀️ That is some seriously motivated pedantry, and, whether ultimately correct or incorrect, I am compelled to acknowledge it! ⭐ You only get so many of these in a lifetime πŸ‘

Re: Boomer Shooter 'Hellscreen' Cancels Upcoming Episodes Due To Game's "Severe Under Performance"

The_Nintend_Pedant

I preferred the term "Doom clone," which was established decades before "boomer shooter," doesn't have derisive (read "ageist") and also inaccurate connotations. ("Baby boomers" were largely entering their 40's and 50's when Doom came out, so clearly gen x and even older millennials πŸ‘‹ were closer to the core audience)

Instead, it made inherent sense (so long as you were familiar w Doom) and also I believe subtly encouraged devs to NOT "clone Doom," something that is basically par for the "boomer shooter" course.

In short, I believe that when we make trendy genre names, we end up with oversaturation, burnout, and eventually backlash, as we may be seeing here. Thank you.

Re: After Last Month's Leak, Anbernic Presents An Official "First Look" At The Anbernic RG477M

The_Nintend_Pedant

"we expect this probably won't be the first time you will be seeing the Anberic RG 477M in the flesh"

this is an odd usage of "in the flesh" on two different levels.

1. The device is not made of flesh.
2. We are not seeing the device in person, either time. ✌️

my suggestion, omit the phrase:

"we expect this probably won't be the first time you will be seeing the Anberic RG 477M"

πŸ‘

EDIT - πŸ‘πŸ‘

Re: Cuphead Is Now Playable On Wii U, Thanks To A New Unofficial Port

The_Nintend_Pedant

"As you'll probably already be aware, Cuphead never got an official release on the Wii U back in the day, with the Wii U being in a lot of people's rear view mirrors by the time the game was released on Xbox One and PC in 2017.

As a result, when its developer StudioMDHR decided to bring it to other platforms a few years later, in 2019, it made sense to port it over to the Nintendo Switch as opposed to the last-generation console, with the Switch representing Nintendo's most advanced system at the time."

this is a lot of words to say "it was ported to relevant hardware of the time (as is the custom)"

PS - can't see the point of this except as an exercise for the people involved, but cool they got it going πŸ‘πŸ‘

Re: "They Told Me To Destroy It" - Fallout Creator Explains Why He's "Mad" About Game Preservation Being Ignored

The_Nintend_Pedant

I believe funding well our library systems, education systems, and various other public systems is our best shot at preserving videogames or any other kind of art. itll never be on the "business agenda" as someone above said, so it needs to be a public investment.

(private sector is sus y'all ✌️)

(maybe jeff bezos and bill gates should pay some m*therf*cking taxes so we can do some things, yeah?)

Re: NES-Inspired Metroidvania 'Cathedral' Is Getting A Prequel, And It Looks Incredible

The_Nintend_Pedant

"the platformy stuff destroys my suspension of disbelief"

I'm so curious for you to expand on this as I can't imagine what exactly you mean by it πŸ˜† ✌️

a commenter above +1'd you, but then went on to talk about MGS and pixel graphics.. πŸ€”

I'm not sure if "suspension of disbelief" was ever a big part of my personal enjoyment of games, per se, unless you count getting emotionally wrapped up in the story of Earthbound or Xenogears for example. πŸ‘ its an interesting thing to ponder.

Re: Review: Gremlin Collection 2 (Evercade) - We Wanna Get Loaded And Have A Good Time

The_Nintend_Pedant

@Damo

"Even at the time, I remember the appeal of Loaded wearing off pretty quickly,"

I completely agree!

It's kind of a semantic turn, admittedly: if I play a game for one weekend rental when I was 11 and got my fill, but then remember it fondly enough to give it another shot some weekend 30 years later, is that short or long term appeal? πŸ€”

anyway sorry to waste your time with my nonsense lol πŸ˜† thanks for the review, and trip down memory lane! (and, I want to check out Hogs of War finally, I think this review put me over the edge at long last πŸ˜‚βœŒοΈ)

Re: 'Final Fantasy Mystic Quest' Could Soon Be Playable On Your Sega Mega Drive / Genesis

The_Nintend_Pedant

"A new fanmade port of the SNES RPG is currently being worked on"

something in a less passive voice, with WHO instead of WHAT as the subject, would be a lot more satisfying and enriching to read, imho ✌️

"NicoMegadrive and Laurent Crouzet are hard at work" maybe as an example ❀️

or "skilled fans are working on just that" if you didnt want to blast their names in the headline.

@jygsaw
beyond nostalgia or completionism, IDK why anyone including children would play mystic quest instead of one of the "real" FF games on SNES, unless its literally their first RPG and they dont know better.


EDIT - hey, look at that! ✌️ much better