It's so odd to see a powerhouse like Nintendo actually dig into the nitty gritty that most gamers don't even know about, but here it is. Sakurai of Kirby and Smash Bros fame has a game developer channel with all the production values you'd expect from a Nintendo Direct. If you're familiar with things like pulling out an old CRT so you can actually beat Mike Tyson or time those tricky barrel blasts in Donkey Kong Country you'll already know most of this, but I thought it was interesting.
If I could get a little deep for a minute:
How is a coping strategy for those on hard times not ultimately meaningless. How is "how I feel" about anything pay the damn bills, or fix the damn town?
You can make me happy as a kite but tomorrow will still be tomorrow and a reflection of today.
Explain it please. That's not a rhetorical I want to know.
Shouldn't science be just a little bit better than a will it want it strategy? How does that serve the common good?
Now I don't have a better answer I don't think anyone does. But this doesn't seem it.
And all that the legal process can do is go after all these novel unpredictable ways that corporations can do their evil long after generations of damage has already been done. Perhaps the solution is to remove the motive factor leading them to doing such horrible things in the first place. They'll always find loopholes, but only if they have a reason to find those loopholes.
Well, no, not really, but apparently a lot of news orginizations took a random picture of a Japanese guy (In this case Hideo Kojima) and put it up claiming THAT was the man who assassinated Shinzo Abe. It wasn't. It was someone else, and that man's motives are as yet unknown. Apparently he constructed his own gun.
It's an unfortunate situation, and of course pointless to kill someone who isn't even Japan's current leader any more. Apparently this person believed Abe was a member of some organization or another, but this is also unknown at this time. It's likely part of some Japanese conspiracy theory if I were to guess.
In any case, Shinzo Abe was an ultranationalist who wanted Japan to rearm and have a military again. This is, of course, against Japan's constitution which went into effect as part of the peace accord between Japan and the US after the end of World War 2. I kept remembering Itoi's old ad from before his Earthbound days.
(The text apparently translates to "After You, Prime Minister", which frankly is a very effective line.)
Nintendo has decided that fan covers of their music are now targets for their lawyers. Just note that for decades, Nintendo let them be and even celebrated their covers in issues of Nintendo Power. They have no legal obligation to do this, no matter what nonsense some dedicated younger fans say.
It's such a heavy handed step that basically means the end of all those piano renditions and metal remixes and so on, but so far only for Nintendo's own music. That should mean Megaman covers are safe.
Activision Blizzard just investigated themselves and good news! They're innocent! I mean COMPLETELY innocent of absolutely everything! The employees of A-B that did their own self investigation then gave themselves a raise for all their hard work.
It's all so neat and clean and not suspicious at all!
No, it's the opposite of that. I don't care about A-B's self-investigation at this point. I want outsiders to investigate it. Like, lawyers and law enforcement and stuff.
The time's come. I'm never going to get an AES at this point. The AES was the home release of that system, but I've come to find out that it's hardware identical to their arcade machines. Kind of crazy to think of getting an entire arcade cabinet, but I am entirely willing to get an arcade board and rig it up to one of these "consolizing" kits called Superguns. I've found that these arcade boards were so common that they are still cheap to this day, as well as the arcade versions of the games themselves (which include the full code for the home version and EVERY region on the same cart). So, next year I think, I'm going to do that. I'm going to find a nice MVS board, consolize it with a supergun, and apply a number of interesting mods to do everything from region/console mode switching to allowing the home versions controllers to be used to adding internal memory card support.
I'll post back here once I manage to accomplish this stuff. I'm putting this off until next year because I still have a few consoles to pick up on the Atari side of things. I really want a 7600, and maybe even a 5200. Definitely a Jaguar, but I'm probably going to skip out on the toilet shaped CD add-on since there were perhaps 6 games for that thing, and I'm not really interested in any of them. Yes, that's right I have more interest in the 32X than a Jaguar CD.
I love finding out about hidden features, yet hate that some of these features were ever hidden to begin with. Behold, the original Playstation had a built in "undelete" feature, so long as you act while the system is still on.
Bonus tip! Want to disable random encounters in Xenogears? Open the disc cover. Instead of locking up when it can't load the data, it will just skip the fight entirely and let you keep going.
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