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@MARl0 And he's not even a copyright troll! It isn't even some kind of moneymaking scheme, he's just some nut who's spent thousands of pounds to make people stop talking about an obscure video game from 1999!

Big update: the VGHF called Brandon White's bluff and the trade association he's been using to send his takedowns has cut him off.

https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/

@BionicDodo I wouldn't be so sure, given LLMs' environmental impact.

@EarthboundBenjy Maybe. Could be it's a pun and I'm missing the reference; I haven't gotten that far into the first game so maybe there's some Pluto stuff I'm not aware of.

I love TRPGs but it's really hard to find time for them anymore (unless it's Into the Breach or something like that that's designed for short play sessions).

FYI it's "Platonic ideal", not "plutonic". As in Plato, the philosopher who believed that the perfect idea of a thing is more real than its flawed physical expression.

Thanks for the list. It can be a daunting series to get into. I decided to start with Resurrection of the Dark Dragon; I tried the original Genesis/MegaDrive version first, but found that the GBA's QOL improvements made it easier to figure out how everything worked.

(I prefer the original graphical style, but the GBA look isn't bad, especially if you're playing it on a small screen like the one it was designed for.)

@Martin_H Okay, but, like, do you have any examples that aren't imaginary?

Can you give any examples of real-life Bobs saying that AI is great because it helped them continue to work creatively after a disaster?

Because in my observation, in real life most of the artists talking about how great it is are guys like Doug TenNapel.

@ckoerner And steps like a goose.

@jesse_dylan cool

@Razieluigi Does Doug even have a job for AI to take? He's a talented artist but I can't name anything else he's done besides Earthworm Jim.

Last I heard he had a podcast with Ethan Nicolle, another artist whose work I really enjoyed who turned out to be a bigot.

@flighty Yeah, EWJ had humble and mercenary beginnings (Playmates following up its massive success with the TMNT toy line by trying to create a similar brand that it would own) but the games and the TV show attracted a fanbase by being good. The games were beautifully animated, the cartoon had a great cast, and both were genuinely funny.

It didn't have the lasting success of a Transformers or a Masters of the Universe, but I think it means something that we're still talking about Earthworm Jim while most of the other toy tie-in media of the '80s and '90s are forgotten.

Are you misspelling his name on purpose? Maybe it's some kind of inside joke I'm not getting, like he got really mad about it once so now you do it every time because ***** that guy?

FYI it's TenNapel, with the e before the l.