It would seem Nintendo has decided to go back to what worked and abandon any ideas of making "Other M 2". Here's hoping they were able to bring the band back together for this one.
Is the release name of Project Scorpio, MS's new console. The hardware is really powerful, the system is impressively small (the smallest Xbox ever, apparently!), and... that name sure is awful, isn't it? Xbox One X, seriously? Why...
Yes, E3 seems to start earlier every year now, and this year is no exception as this time the first press conference is next Saturday. There haven't been many leaks before the show this year, so far anyway, but I'm sure there will be some at the show. I'm looking forward to E3, it's always a great time... :)
I've seen these things. They're like tops, but they only work in your hand, making them dumber than tops. To me, they seem like a pretty lame toy, but since they market themselves as a "health item", that seems to be why teens are buying them. Whatever...
Until you see news stories claiming they are the worst and most dangerous game, the one that will destroy us all. Come on news, not only do these things not qualify as "dangerous" by any stretch of the imagination, they aren't even the lamest fad to sweep teens. That honor goes to pet rocks. Literally rocks, with an invitation to "decorate them any way you like!", as though I couldn't do that with any rock I found on the ground. Heck, pet rocks are more dangerous than these not-quite-tops.
Yep, Australia has trees with roots that stab other things and drink their juice, mostly other trees.
I'm still not sure which continent is more murderous: Australia or Africa. Africa has those murder flowers that can kill a small child, while it would take some doing for anyone to succumb to this Australia tree, so I gotta give the edge to Africa... this round.
Now, I have always said that Mr. Rogers Neighborhood is the best childrens' television show ever. The best thing about the show has to be his message that everyone is best just the way they are, and he is famous for that message. Almost as important, however, is the shows' focus, or rather, the absence of the constant barrage of thirty second long scenes; instead, each episode has only two major parts, in his house and in the land of make-believe. As a kid I liked the longer-form nature of Mr. Rogers over Sesame Street's short, constantly changing scenes. The calmer tone of Mr. Rogers is great too, I really like it; not being another one of those kids shows that is a 'barrage on the senses' was one of Fred Rogers' major aims with the show, and I at least always liked it more for that. Of course Mr. Rogers' way of speaking straight to the audience is the most important part of what makes it so great, but the tone and longer story arcs, often even with stories that continue through multiple episodes, is fantastic as well.
So, you may have heard of this, but previously Twitch streamed all of Bob Ross (painting) and Julia Child (cooking) shows, those classic PBS hits. I didn't watch much of either, but it was an interesting thing to do. They are following those with this, a run through the entire well over 800 episode run of Mr. Rogers episodes. It started on the 15th at noon (PST), so now it is in the middle of the very long first season -- looking it up, the first season, which is from 1968, is a whole 130 episodes, and is in black and white. Most of these first-season episodes have never been reran since they aired once in 1968, so only people watching then saw them. So yeah, I've been watching a bunch of this, and it's great stuff, different because it's in B&W and is older than the episodes I remember as a kid, but it's also so familiar because the show is what it is, it didn't change much. It's awesome. The songs are even charming, and I am not exactly a fan of music.
(The first season, from 1968, is 130 episodes, all black and white and not rerun. Then season 2 through 9, from '69 to '75, are about 65 episodes per season, and are all in color. Then there were no new episodes, only reruns, for over three years. When it returned in 1979, for the second series that ran 22 seasons until ending in 2001, the number of episodes dropped to only 10-20 per season most of the time, so that shorter first series ended up producing far more episodes than the longer second one. Huh.)
... Now, on the one hand, you've got this incredible childrens' show, with lots of not-seen-in-49-years episodes on right now (and for the next day or two as well)... and on the other hand
you've got it on Twitch, representing the internet, with its often-toxic comments bar scrolling by on the right. It's a pretty weird mix. The internet is both one of the best things ever and one of the worst things ever, depending on when and where you look... but it's very much worth watching anyway, just ignore a lot of that chat stuff.
Yes, tired old line for the subject, but I couldn't fit my actual thought in there.
Frankly, I think the temple Indy stole that shiny trinket from in the beginning of the first movie was the more valuable item. That place had some incredible feats of engineering, and Indy broke basically all of them just to get some stupid chunk of treasure that wasn't even made out of magic like the rest of the things Indy steals.
Looks like the author, who never once intended for this cartoon to represent racists, finally decided to just kill off this character for good. I mean, imagine if Samus became some sort of symbol of hatred tomorrow on the same scale as Pepe. Samus may be popular to gamers, but she's still JUST enough of an unknown to the public at large that for most people, her only identity would be as a hate speech icon, and Nintendo might have no choice but to end the Metroid series for good.
This really has to suck for this artist, but I respect the decision, since his own character is now poison for him to use. Too bad it won't do anything. That frog symbol is going to continue to be used by racists long after the character's "death". Basically, all this means is that the character is now JUST a hate symbol, and can be treated as such.
