I hate it as much as the next person here, but it was always inevitable. It was never a question of if, but when.

I know a lot of people look at physical media from a preservation angle, but in an era where games have a long tail of post-release updates and DLC, I’m not so sure they even serve that purpose anymore. If I want to replay my old games in 50 years, in many cases I probably don’t just want to play the 1.0 that’s on the disc. If I’m still dependent on the availability of a third-party download server to get the remaining data, do discs even still matter all that much?

Seconding Apocalypse Hotel, absolutely phenomenal.

Steam Machine, not Deck.

In addition to what everyone else said about it being an easy scapegoat to rile up voters, I don’t think those in power actually care about getting rid of immigrants. What they really want is to make conditions even harder for immigrants, making them more desperate and thus easier to exploit. They want to make immigrants into an extreme underclass that will have no choice but to accept even worse working conditions with even worse under-the-table pay, knowing any complaint will lead to immediate deportation.

Why do you keep using the word ‘we’ if you only meant to talk about yourself?

Would The Penguin count?

Wikipedia lists five games in the series. NES and SNES are the third and fourth. Nowhere are they described as ports.

It’s a sequel featuring a mix of old and new characters, but it’s still a sequel. That’s like saying Street Fighter IV isn’t a sequel because it has SF2’s roster in it.

Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! isn’t a port, it’s a sequel.

On a casual level, I prefer Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO over the arcade version. I totally get why the competitive community stuck with the arcade, but at least casually I’d rather not deal with roll canceling.

Even unprompted, it’s usually better to talk about the things you like rather than the things you don’t.

Is there a reason you can’t just patch it yourself?

The key is to be as diplomatic as possible in just saying it’s not really your thing and then changing the subject. Especially when someone’s trying to bond by sharing their interests, the worst thing you can do is insult the things they like. If you have to, avoid any direct criticism, just make it clear that it’s your own subjective taste.

And I say this as someone who has literally built a brand on being a hater for some specific hot-buttons of mine, and even lost friendships over it. In the right setting there can be a time and place for hating, but it’s not when someone else is trying to talk about what they like. Just change the subject if you can’t say anything nice.

They should just do Muppet remakes of everything instead.

I almost don’t feel like ‘good’ is the appropriate type of adjective to use for a show like this. It’s utterly horrific, but I mean that as a compliment.

The DS version of Ni no Kuni included a physical spellbook you’re meant to consult. JP-only, but the fantranslation made it into a PDF.

If you think Light’s intentions were ever good, I think you kinda missed the point of the show. His very first targets were only petty criminals, the fact that he didn’t set his sights on real monsters showed that he always had a warped sense of justice even from the beginning.

I don’t think anything like this exists for modern/native games, but RetroAchievements supports many different emulators.

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo. The name is a takeoff on Super Street Fighter II Turbo, but there were no other Puzzle Fighter versions.

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