It’s almost like the entire narrative is just bad faith tribalism.

I thought Nintendo games never went on sale? 🤯

It’s new math. In this new approach, the important thing is to understand what you’re doing rebroadcast the narrative, rather than to get the right answer.

The entire site looks to be slop.

The table in question.

That’ll shock a few people, but a whole lot of others are gonna need to buy more tissues.

And yes, I will kink shame in this case.

Has anyone seen Frank Bennedetto? He might be able to help with the popcorn sitch. Also, he still owes me five bucks.

I watched this teardown the other day. When the first tool to reach for is a heat gun… bloody hell.

Clue, Tim Curry

I’m not a huge fan of the Warriors format, but I had a good enough time with AoC. Some of the cut scenes gave me chills. I’m a little fuzzy about the DLC. I got it, and enjoyed it (don’t think I finished all of it), but I’m not sure I’d call it crucial. It’s just more game. It’s gone on sale a handful of times for the patient gamers out there. I’d wait until you’re done with the core game before trying to decide. If you’re still flowing, go for it. If you’ve had enough, let it be.

Been kinda wanting to pick it back up since Age of Imprisonment was revealed.

I love the fact that the channel evolved from dunking on the uninformed public to full blown documentaries.

I got to P1300ish on my HotA Barb/FotH Crusader before getting too bored to use D3 to go to sleep.

To be fair, about 8 LA remakes would fit inside the original LA cartridge.

No clue, haven’t seen it.

I strongly dislike cop shows. Never been a fan of the gangster aesthetic. Can sometimes tolerate superhero stuff but it’s not really my thing.

I was shocked at how much I enjoyed Gotham.

The Walkman is long gone, like 30+ years ago. Still have Optimus’s foot, though.

Thanks for the replacement tip. I’m not sure much is going to change moving forward though. Nonstandard screw heads are used to keep bored people (especially kids) out. Only the invisible sky wizard knows how much stuff was saved from my preteen curiosity by not being a Philips or flathead. (RIP my old Walkman, sorry I never figured out how to put you back together properly.) Do you know how tempting those clips on the top of NES carts were to me as a kid? I poked at them even knowing the security screws were there. Had those been anything I could undo with my dad’s tools, you bet your ass I’d have them disassembled, inspected, running back and forth across the carpeted floor (which also served as the work table) to get more carts, seeing if game boards could fit in another case to prank my brother, the whole nine yards.

If one of those ~$50 games ended up not working (whether by carpet-fueled ESD or a literal misstep or whatever), best case scenario is that I would have been out of a game if my parents didn’t find out. (Worst case, my mom wouldn’t be able to play Tetris anymore and I may not have survived third grade.) Because they certainly weren’t going to buy “it just stopped working” from the kid that disassembled Optimus Prime. I can see other parents buying the sob story though, making a big scene at the store or on the phone (and these days, online), demanding a refund/replacement regardless of warranty status.

Of course none of that impacts hobbyists - we just get the right tool and go to town. But nonstandard screw heads work well enough at keeping out kids (and idiots) that they’re likely here to stay.

And we both know the answer to the fastener quality issue: if you can shave a penny off of a part that’ll be used hundreds of millions of times, well, that’s what you’re gonna do. There’s precious little in the way of (regular) user-serviceable parts in anything anymore. The manufacturers don’t want us in there. Is that going to stop us? No.

We can hope for better, but IMO “this makes a great replacement part” is awesome info on its own.

Thanks for reading my very long-winded “thank you.” ^_^;

This comm has an absurd amount of downvote fairies. I’m not sure which is more pathetic: setting up a downvote bot, or being terminally online enough to constantly refresh all/new and reflexively downvote anything you don’t like.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s Nintendo pile-on session.

Who says you can’t hear a thumbnail?