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If you take the past couple US presidents you can find lots of weird ***** and some good stuff with each one of them. Look at deportations of Clinton or drone Bombing with Obama (AND getting the peace nobel price for it). Trump is no worse or better than any other US president. Just "louder", more present and maybe more "nationally inclined".

On the other side I look at the deal "Ursula" made on behalf of all europeans with Trump.

Europe takes 600 billions worth of liquid fracking gas for 6x the price of russian gas, effectively destroying Europe as a viable business place. Also Europe buys 700 billions worth of weapons from the US, opens european markets and regulations for US wares, on the contrary european wares on the US market fall under 15% tarifs and even 50% tarifs with steel products.

So tell me who is the bad politician now?
Europe is in serious crisis and personally I don't see ANY light at the end of the tunnel.

So for all americans that lament Trump, come over to Germany and try running a small family-owned business and "enjoy" regulations, crime and taxes. Also, look at "hate speech laws" in western Europe and especially the UK. More people have been locked up for Facebook posts in the UK than in Russia. It's wild.

Western countries don't even need Trump, they're ruining themselves just fine.

Ugh that trailer is surely underwhelming. Still. On my radar. I love shmups and tactical games. Kinda. Weird. Yes?

@LordPieFace Yeah I figured, but how did you know that a few days back? Anyways it's tempting for sure.

@GrimLocke I dont want a political discussion, but I don't see how Trump is adding to the Chaos that is already the mess that is for example the Ukraine conflict. At least he tries, something, while Europe WANTS war. If they could choose, it'd be WWIII already. A good way to hide the empty pension pots and destroyed economy.

Sometimes the comment section can feel like drinking a potato through a straw!

Looks lovely.

@LordPieFace Really? ooooooooohhhh.... so where did you get the models and the pricing?

That looks like butt. Wish it was the whole console instead.

Looks amazing, but probably overkill for DS/3DS games anyways (pricewise).

Uhm, so why not just USE a stylus? Or a similarily shaped plastic object? Did I miss that point while skimming through the review?
Why is it being custom built for only 2 options really (tate and DS) a MINUS if there is a serious lack of exactly this kind of handhelds? I'd rate it as a plus really. You can play your 4:3 games everywhere else. Literally.

Looks nice, btw.

The obvious best solution here is to convince SEGA to bring out a new Megadrive, reprint the most popular carts and begone with predatory AAA gaming forever! Ahahahahahahaha! <3

@HammyHavoc That's all nice and great and I agree with everything you say. But reality is reality and as much as Ancient knows how they want to approach a release, as much they could know that it would be pirated the day it drops.

It's the whole limewire VS spotify thing all over again. Make it easily obtainable for a reasonable price and people won't bother pirating. At least the vast majority wouldn't. In 40 years of internet we didn't figure out a better way, did we?

I will be getting the physical MD cart as a collectible token alone and I want that cover and box and everything. But yeah of course people want to play it everywhere.

Happily bought it on Steam. Will get it for MD next year too, even though right now I don't have a working one. That said I think it's again a matter of availability. The interwebs is flooded with Anbernic devices, logically people want to play Earthion on their go-to-device.

You can't stop piracy, but you could make the rom available for 15 bucks or as part of the Steam download. It wouldn't cannibalize in MD cartridge sales too much I figure, as only real retro enthusiasts were going to get it in the first place.

So yeah.

Great game. Love it.

@Lorfarius not for cartridges unfortunately, but the anbernic rg arc-s is great for megadrive I hear

Back in the day it was a really weird, unique game. By today's standards it's somewhat clunky but I played it countless of hours just a few months back (instead of wasting my money on modern gaming). Can wholeheartedly recommend.

The emblem of the enemies reminds me of Antchrist Superstar Marilyn Manson! Love it!

Missed the Mega SG. Wish they ever did a rerun. They still keep the thing on their website, even though its discontinued. There's hoping.

Imagine, if SEGA just said "what the heck". re-release OG hardware, probably also FPG based, compatible to classic carts and modern games, also tiny built in online shop for downloading classics.

I would be all over that, if it looked like a Model I or even a Model II Megadrive.

its a bit like a boomer trying to be "lit" and all "tiktok-lingo" with the younglings.

***** then ***** now

Have it preordered. Can't wait.

Here's my 2 cents:

I am very much involved with AI due to my job and my mentality that I rather RIDE the train that is AI than get run over by it. That said I do see the massive benefits when it comes to research, medical advancements, combing through massive data, etc.

When it comes to creativity, the reality is AI CAN and WILL and already HAS replaced lots of "slop" that was never good anyways. I don't want to offend any writers and journalists here (I am a writer myself) but most content is so forgettable anyways, it doesn't really matter who wrote it, human or AI.

If you look at medium.com for example, it's an example of circle jerking the same topics over and over again, everyone copying from one another and just "putting it into their own words".

That's exactly what AI is doing.

A numb crowd of consumers will happily read AI written books, watch AI created series and movies and listen to AI created songs.

Will AI ultimately replace all of human creativity? No, I don't think so, but it will for sure replace all the "so so" content. Everything that is not outstanding will be replaced by AI. At least, that's my impression. At the moment. Things advance fast.

I really think we peaked during the 1990s...

@axelhander as with a garden hoe, it can be both.

@h3s perplexity IS a cool tool!

@Aloe Probably too ambitious and it needs tweaking to run as good as the other versions? I mean I love the MD, obviously, but that's some ancient piece of tech!

If it's supposed to be a PSP, why no widescreen format?!

@KingMike Ahaha I remember all of that. 90's fuzzies! Love it!

This is as shoddy as they come. But oh my, why not. I am all for "finishing unfinished garbage". Gotta love the 90's jank too so why not.

@Gryzor Ignorance is bliss I guess.

@Gryzor Do you live there? Do you know anyone from there? Or do you just repeat pre-fabricated opinion pieces.

Look at the economic outlook of Austria, Germany, France, the UK. All of it catastrophic. Just look up what went down after the recent soccer game in Paris, burning streets, riots, ...

What about the nordic countries? Sweden? Norway? Beacons of tru democray and elegatarianism right? Look up Malmö violence. Whole Europe is in the gutter because of currupt politicians, on the brink of a war with Russia adn economically isolated because of stupid sanctions backfiriing.

Be thankful for what you have, really (if you're american).

@Gryzor Look at Europe and name one politician besides Orban, Fico and Vucic who even remotely gives a flying f about their own people and economy like Trump does? Don't be blinded by the propaganda and class hatred.

Trippy. Looks like the space-mushroom version of Outrun!

@Quick_Man Unfortunately many people lack the understanding that the "God Emperor" is trying to save an economy. And people hate him for that but no word about manufacturers and importers who don't want the tariffs to cut into their holy profits so they are offloading it to the customers.

If you have the choice of still having a job in 5 years time further down the road or being let go but having a Switch 2 that's 150,- cheaper, what would you choose?

The US has been on a horrific downward spiral economically for quite a while now, at least someone tries something to fix it.

The classic "jank" is part of the fun. I'm fine with the old version.

Not wanting to go political on this but oh my. You need to see the bigger picture. America's DEBTS are IMMENSE. Your economy is toast in the long term. Short term tariffs hurt, but in the long game they could be your only hope.

So don't bash the orange man because your toys become more expensive or unavailable for a short period of time, rather than you all living in a financially failed state and all your credits and loans going poof.

And by the way, look at europe's economy... what a joke. At least he's trying something.

@X68000 Tbh while I love my old retro tech, I also do love modern projects like Pico 8. What you just said would be a fine thing to do in my book, like work around and within the power limitations of let's say a Pi 5, but stay within predefined "Mega Drive-esque" designphilosophies. Most importantly: Drab colors and rough synth sounds we all grew to love!

But just imagine a "proper" 3D engine within the color palette of the OG Mega Drive, or gigantic open world or even MMORPG style games, isometric top-down view, in original resolution and such... oh one can dream. Would love that...

While I absolutely don't think violating any laws is a good idea or should be promoted in any way, I can also see the point where we as consumers and people get shafted by our governments, companies and basically every single entity out there nickel & diming us, that someone (some hypothetical one) could give not a single flying rat's ass anymore about pirating 25+ years old games.

Funny how people think democracy works. It’s anti democratic the moment your candidate loses.

Administration A making a buttload of mistakes, no one seems to remember once administration B comes into play. They also deserve to make their own mistakes.

Love this one. Even the stock OS isn't that bad this time around. And all the CONS listed, are irrelevant if you just want a souped up GBA! Perfect!

That's so SEGA it hurts, especially as a SEGA fan. I wonder, is there not some sort of registry where you can look up rights held?

What a mess.

That's a great trailer. Gamecube, XBOX, PS2. Great times.

@X68000 The RG Arc. Lovely device, but not only underpowered to provide full Saturn support, also crappy OS and hardly any good CFW options! Outstanding D-PAD though.

"No analogue stick" is such a stupid CON in my opinion. This is clearly geared towards upwards to 16 bit emulation. No analogue inputs there. Just because the processor can handle dreamcast doesn't mean you should play it on every device. There's plenty of capable handhelds with all the analogue controls in the world, even triggers, let us "digital only" geeks be happy!

@Orioncle exactly my point. There’s like a million devices that do dc and psp perfectly fine. But only two doing GBA perfectly.

@Orioncle I'd say you buy it solely for GBA games. Finally that formfactor. And I am glad they don't stick a random thumbstick onto everything anymore.

This is awesome. Unfortunately where I live everything sucks (except nature).

@RetroGames In all honesty, at this point, they could just license that Analogue thing and call it a day! But I would be fine with that!

Or... like you said some kind of new SNES mini with cartridges in Nintendo DS size and official reissues... I'd be all over that.

I love new games for old consoles. Imagine if the console manufacturers did reruns of their old hardware. I'd be all over it. Bring back the goodies. Thank your indy developers for making "pixel graphics" mainstream and thus old consoles viable again! Yay!

@Razieluigi I agree with you 100% and in a very limited way, they ARE doing it and at least they got SOME things. I love the Two Point studios output with "building and management sims" in the veign of the original theme hospital and theme park games.

Also Persona finally seems to be all over the place, even though the formula starts to feel a bit dated, despite great storytelling.

I yesterday got that sonic Teamracer on switch in a sale and oh my this has so much more potential. It does feel SEGA, but it would need much much more exposure, tracks, content and all that jazz to compete as a respectable second in the kart racer segment.

And then there's the back catalogues of games. I'm hugely into retro games, SEGA stuff specifically (also Love PC-Engine and SNES obviously) and there are so many hidden gems that could be re-invigorated. Let's hope the new Streets of Rage, Shinobi etc... games do their legacy justice.

And about quirky "SEGA like" experiences, there's plenty of talented indy devs. Get them. While I personally don't play it, but things like "Among us" and "Fall Guys" has the quirky "let's do things a bit different" air around them, just like SEGA used to have.

Also... most underrated game to make a comeback: GAIN GROUND!

Love the concept...

Anyways, this is too long already.
Thanks for reading this far.

@HammerGalladeBro "SCarP0wn" would make for a great internet handle/gamertag too.

While I despise the analytic PR talk and being called a consumer (someone that takes and uses up something), he is right. But videogames are more than just a "product" to be "consumed" for a monetary transfer. It's culture.

Yes, there are no more grandios composers, or stone masons that impress with lifelike sculptures like in the golden ages of antiquity, and if there were, probably no one would care. But on the pile of distractions, consumer products (there I said it) and and other mindless garbage forms a tiny peak of things that leave lasting impressions and move people emotionally. That's our culture and videogames are part of it.