Your New Lunch Habit Is Hurting the Economy
A society where you’re a broke piece of shit for Starbucks and Avocado Toast®️ but you’re killing the economy if you don’t eat fast food for lunch
Remastering Recent Games Is A Pointless, Sisyphean Task
Oblivion already exists in a very playable form that’s just as entertaining and flawed as it was 20 years ago. Also, there are 20 years’ worth of mods to improve all the aspects that Bethesda is pathologically incapable of doing well—UI, facial animations, inventory arrangement, voice acting, textures—to have the game look and run exactly as you want.
I do think it’s kinda trashy to keep releasing remakes of old games just so you can re-market them and sell them one more time to the same audience.
It’s like the Super Mario RPG remake. It would’ve been just as fun if it came with the online bundle like the rest of the old SNES games. It plays exactly the same but they rebuilt it from the ground up to look a little shinier.
So of course I shelled out the $60 for it and thoroughly enjoyed playing it at launch, but then I just replayed it on an emulator recently and it was just as awesome as I remember it from the 90s.
I’m ok with leaving well enough alone.
Blue Origin Space Flight Backlash
“I think that this space mission is confusing to people because seeing women and people of color in spaces like science and politics that have not previously included them feels and looks like…progress,” Emily Ratajkowski shared in a TikTok video that questioned the point of the flight. “But the truth is, is that having a man who has gained his power and become a part of the one percent purely through exploitation and greed deciding to take his fiancée and a few other famous women to space for space tourism is not progress.”
from r/tooktoomuch
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At work today, I had an older lady call in to ask how much one of our mattresses weigh. She wasn’t a new customer; she had already bought it a few years ago and was perfectly happy with it. But it was surprisingly heavy when she had to move the thing, so she just got curious and wanted to ask somebody about it.
These days, that’s something you can easily find out in a split second with a quick Google search. Why even bother calling some stranger when you can just look it up?
Digg.com Groundbreakers!
Finally just got invited to the new Digg.com “Groundbreakers” group!
I was so stoked when Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht did the reunion show for Diggnation last year. That was wild enough for me; I never thought I’d see the day. They joked about buying back Digg.com and making it an actual social network again but I never thought anything would come of it.
This little song is insanely motivational and I’m not easily motivated!
It just sticks in your head and comes out whenever you don’t want to do something you definitely need to do 😋
Our 90 year old neighbor who feeds our outside cat stopped by and invited us to hang out some time. I’ve been listening to so much true crime I’m suspicious it’s all just a ploy to lure us to his torture dungeon lmao.
Super sweet guy. But if I randomly quit posting you’ll know what happened 😅
My latest Metroidvania obsession
I really need to start paying attention to the devs behind the games I play.
I started Sea of Stars, from Sabotage Studio, a while back and it’s one of the best classic style RPGs I’ve ever played.
Then I got kinda sidetracked and found a new obsession with Metroidvanias like Blasphemous and Aggelos for a while.
I kept thinking man, Sea of Stars has such great artwork and mechanics, I wish these guys would make a Metroidvania. I bet it would be fucking gnarly.
Well, turns out they did! Way before Sea of Stars, back in 2018 they made a game called The Messenger and holy shit is it good!
When I beat Aggelos, it kinda left a void in my soul for the more simplistic, 16 bit side scrollers with snappy controls and sick pixel art. Blasphemous was close, but it was a little more technical and modern in a lot of ways. Still a dope game but I need a break before I get more into Blasphemous 2, so The Messenger is my latest obsession.
So many good Metroidvanias out there if you know where to look! Still haven’t finished Sea of Stars yet with all this side scrolling action though.
From r/MarchAgainstNazis
Will someone please think of the oligarchs and government subsidized mega corporations‽ 🤪
Target foot traffic falls for seventh consecutive week
For the latest week, Costco’s foot traffic gain was the near-inverse of Target’s loss: It was up 7%.
I was never big on Target and I absolutely despise Walmart but the other half and I JUST got Costco memberships for the first time last month.
It’s the only grocery store I’ve been to lately where I’ve yet to run into someone wearing a MAGA hat. I actually like shopping there even.
Honestly I’m holding back a lot on this post, I’m a total Costco nerd now and I’m absolutely obnoxious about it. Just ask my girlfriend.
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards for the Switch for family sharing
…when you buy a digital system of a game, it is loaded as a Virtual Game Card on a dedicated management screen. You can virtually load and eject your Virtual Game Cards. This will work for both the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 systems.
I was just thinking the other day, I have SO MANY games I’ve bought and didn’t end up liking. You can only lend out one of these for two weeks though. Would be cool if you could dump off unwanted stuff to whoever wants it but I get why that wouldn’t be a great business model.
NASA Drops Promise to Land “First Woman, Person of Color” on the Moon
“A giant step back for womankind?”
Picked up a R36S handheld emu
Picked up a R36S emulator console at a local video game place while my Switch was getting serviced last week.