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| Topic | Nintendo Direct September 12th Topic |
| doshindude 09/12/25 11:39:11 AM #357 | A lot of "nobody cares" items in this Direct. Nintendo needs to be putting on a much better showing than what they are doing. This is a launch year for a console - remasters, ports, DLC, and lazy low quality "looks like a Switch 1 game" titles are not in their best interest. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Metroid Prime 4 releases December 4th 2025 and Samus has a.... |
| doshindude 09/12/25 11:20:07 AM #14 | I'm really tired of Nintendo chasing trends from 10 years ago and forcing devs to shove a pointless empty open world into every game. Not every franchise supports that design. The desert in that trailer was really, really sparse looking. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | I am genuinely shocked at how misogynist Other M is |
| doshindude 09/12/25 8:37:41 AM #19 | tremain07 posted... Were any of these people involved in Dread?That game got a lot o praise for how it handled Samus's character IIRC Sakamoto is minimally involved in Dread (or Metroid in general ever since) outside of the historical development or general guidance. Metroid titles since then have been farmed out to other studios. My guess is he got quietly demoted after Other M. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | The Quartering threatens us with offspring |
| doshindude 09/11/25 11:03:09 PM #8 | "I will make babies" that is just...disgusting. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Do you like this game: Super Mario Sunshine |
| doshindude 09/11/25 10:57:30 PM #32 | It's an okay game but only if you don't try to 100% it. Similar rule of thumb as Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom. It becomes a REALLY shitty game when you try to 100% it. The blue coins and the game's lack of any coherent tracking system for them is one of the worst systems I've ever seen in a 3D platformer. Even with a strategy guide (which I have), the blue coins are incredibly obtusely placed. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | There's nothing to look forward to tomorrow's Nintendo direct |
| doshindude 09/11/25 9:15:12 PM #31 | Hoping there some real games announced. Need a real Mario and a real Zelda. Its clear that Prime 4 got pushed to the shadow realm in terms of a release date so we need something more concrete. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | I am genuinely shocked at how misogynist Other M is |
| doshindude 09/11/25 9:13:35 PM #8 | Sakamoto was uniquely disrespectful to his own creation. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Explain why fall is not the best season. |
| doshindude 09/11/25 9:09:19 PM #11 |
fall is a garbage season. Summer is best. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Your reaction: In response, America bans video games. |
| doshindude 09/11/25 2:02:22 PM #28 | Jailbroken 3DS and Wii U says "eat me" to that --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | I don't feel welcome in my own family anymore |
| doshindude 09/11/25 11:58:10 AM #19 | Heard. I have a parent who went deeply down the right-wing conspiracy theory/maga rabbit hole (Though they had done this more than a decade ago, pre-2016), and now they are just openly anti-vaxx. It's so upsetting that their brain is just gone. Makes me not want to ever have kids because then I'll have to deal with that. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Just got two fillings what now? |
| doshindude 09/11/25 11:22:08 AM #15 | Follow their instructions, have less sugary/acidic food/drink, be comfortable as it heals. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Lets Be Respectful |
| doshindude 09/10/25 7:27:10 PM #58 | Let's not have this talk. Also, no. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | I feel pretty numb, how about y'all? |
| doshindude 09/10/25 7:25:40 PM #20 | I have no sympathy spoons left I can tell ya that --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | School's were much better in the 80s and 90s |
| doshindude 09/10/25 4:24:32 PM #9 | People ask me why I haven't had kids yet, and sometimes I wonder, then I read stuff like this and I am reminded "oh yeah, I made the correct choice not to have them." I've heard several other folks say the statement "I'm glad I grew up when I did" and I don't disagree with them. I'm glad I got the 90s upbringing and not in the hellscape that is modern times. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | It's weird that they aren't called Pokeballs in Japan |
| doshindude 09/10/25 4:23:34 PM #19 | Pokemon is heavily, heavily localized outside of Japan. The original names are blunt and generic. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | I'm not so sure about Sonic Frontiers |
| doshindude 09/09/25 5:30:54 PM #15 | pokedude900 posted... It was pretty alright up until the 3rd island. So many forced 2D areas that you can just walk into by accident. No. Vetoed. Sonic Heroes is easily the best 3D Sonic. Dont kid yourself. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Never trust a person whose last name is a first name. |
| doshindude 09/08/25 10:49:58 PM #12 | Elton John sounds like a fake name --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Epstein letter with Trump's signature released |
| doshindude 09/08/25 10:47:37 PM #88 | Takuya_Lee posted... I'm not so sure. This story isn't going away and Murdoch is actively going after him nowEh. Remember Mueller Time? it aint happening. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Congressional Dem urges Mamdani, all Democratic Socialists, to split |
| doshindude 09/07/25 10:37:41 PM #20 | Republican Lite --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | What do you call this? |
| doshindude 09/07/25 10:34:51 PM #23 | An Automatic ATM Machine --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | MAGA has really killed alot of my empathy tanks rant inside |
| doshindude 09/07/25 7:30:44 PM #34 | maga people deserve any pain and misery they voted for. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Is Youtube Messed up again? |
| doshindude 09/07/25 2:11:24 PM #20 | Schadenfreude. Big channels complaining their overly inflated views due to bots or cheating the system are now being corrected? Crocodile tears. Smaller channels pumping out quality content that are being suppressed by the algorithm need to be highlighted/celebrated more as opposed to the clickbait/sensory overload garbage. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Do you like the name you were given at birth? |
| doshindude 09/07/25 2:08:48 PM #36 | It's fine. People get the spelling wrong due to alternate ways of spelling it, but aside from that, meh, it's good enough. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Woman crosses the entire USA on a skateboard to honor her dead stepfather |
| doshindude 09/07/25 2:07:50 PM #7 | Well, kind of. an RV and video crew were within arms' reach. Kind of a big lede to bury. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | ITT: your first CPU and your current CPU. |
| doshindude 09/06/25 1:00:45 AM #14 | 1999: Pentium something. Probably a 1 or a 2 2025: M4 Pro and AMD Ryzen 5 5600X --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Go find your old elementary school books on Open Library or Archive |
| doshindude 09/05/25 3:53:03 PM #20 | Love the 90s CG graphics with all the drop shadows on the page. Miss those. Unfortunately I don't remember names of any of the textbooks I used in elementary school. Would be a lost cause finding them. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | The Smash Mouth guy died |
| doshindude 09/05/25 3:48:34 PM #15 | OLD'D (no srsly this is super ancient news) --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Detail on older games you didn't notice for a long time? |
| doshindude 09/05/25 12:53:48 PM #44 | MegamanXfan21xx posted... And the very first time you play Jolly Roger Bay on a new save file, it's foggy and overcast, but grabbing the first star permanently clears the fog and sky, even if you go back and replay the first mission. Ironically that also slightly increases game performance in that area. Jolly Roger Bay slows the N64 down to a crawl. Ocarina of Time + Super Mario 64 + Mario Kart 64 - the credits music is timed with the N64's slowdown/performance issues. On emulators, the visuals outrun the music by 15-20 seconds (if not more). --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Simpsons quotes that have permeated into cultural speech |
| doshindude 09/04/25 4:15:38 PM #42 | "Don't Make Me Tap the Sign" "Super Nintendo Chalmers" --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Are you gonna get Hollow Knight: Silksong? |
| doshindude 09/04/25 4:13:14 PM #39 | Watched the trailers for both games. Not my type of game. Looks pretty generic to me. Not really sure why people are creaming their pants over it either. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | I think population decline is a good thing |
| doshindude 09/04/25 11:45:22 AM #33 | ssjevot posted... I think we need to face the facts and develop society around declining populations. There is no actual way to get birth rates back up again. Everything attempted hasn't worked and going back to women being uneducated and at home pregnant all the time isn't desirable (okay maybe for those weird trad wife people). This is the new normal and society will have to accept it. It's bad for the economy based on the assumption of needing infinite growth and record profits every year. Things will need to be structured differently. Wtf is up with this "make a family, be a real human, muh nuclear family values" coded statement? Really not liking the vibe of this. Nobody is required to poop out 5 babies per family, it's not the 1800s anymore. Better knowledge and access to contraception/best sexual practices is a good thing. We overpopulated due to the lack of that before. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Which Nintendo product had the best stylus? |
| doshindude 09/04/25 11:27:44 AM #4 | Tie between the DS Lite and the 3DS XL/N3DS XL for the bigger sizes. Wii U's wasn't bad either due to the girth. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Wikipedia releases Signs of AI Writing list |
| doshindude 09/04/25 11:17:49 AM #64 | I always type papers with two spaces after a period (because that's always been the CORRECT way to do it). AI fails to do this even if you ask, so that's one way to really root out people using it. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | "You are stupid. You are stupid. And don't forget: you are stupid." |
| doshindude 09/04/25 9:17:13 AM #15 | saspa posted... omg same why am I vividly remembering this as a scene too?Yeah same. I remember these lines but not the visuals. I wonder if they reused this gag in a later episode. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Silksong day |
| doshindude 09/04/25 9:14:14 AM #9 | Knowing nothing about it and coming in blind, I watched the trailers for both the original and the sequel. I don't get it? It just looks like a really bland generic Metroidvania? Why is this game being put so high on a pedestal? Why are people losing their minds about what just looks like a small game? IMO it just looks like they took Metroid Dread and changed the art. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Is Windows 11 stable? |
| doshindude 09/03/25 7:23:48 PM #54 | Nope. Tried using it the other day. Randomly froze and locked up opening the Settings app. Nonstarter. Linux Mint is the answer. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Finally 100% completed Ocarina of Time. |
| doshindude 09/03/25 7:22:05 PM #18 | Awakened_Link posted... But thanks to the menu suspension on NSO, I was able to rewind and repeat over and over till I won. ....Play it the real way. 100%ing it using save states is embarrassing. OoT isn't a game that even needs save states. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | BOTW thoughts after 25 hours |
| doshindude 09/03/25 7:20:21 PM #14 | Kaldrenthebold posted... WutBest of the Worst. Much older than Breath of the Wild + had the initialism first. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Did you or your family ever own a Big Mouth Billy Bass? |
| doshindude 09/01/25 8:54:38 PM #28 | I have the McDonalds Filet 'O Fish version. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Do you think Trump is dead? |
| doshindude 09/01/25 8:53:08 PM #167 | Not dead, we would have heard, even through the distortion field. Debilitating stroke? Definitely possible. They are putting out old months old golf photos claiming they are new. That means he's likely in a coma or unable to speak or move. He might be clinging to life behind the scenes rn. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Your weird "mental associations." |
| doshindude 09/01/25 1:39:14 PM #15 | pokedude900 posted... Any time I have to go East in a video game. "I thought you said Weast" "Firmly GRASP IT!" --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Stand outside this restaurant and protest it... |
| doshindude 09/01/25 11:38:13 AM #17 | Sure yeah let's defend a big corporation. (don't make me tap the signature) --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | But her laugh! |
| doshindude 09/01/25 11:36:23 AM #7 | https://youtu.be/H47ow4_Cmk0 --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | "You get what you vote for." It's time to stop this |
| doshindude 09/01/25 11:11:10 AM #55 | TC's "they go low, we go high" nonsense is the reason we have the current degenerative presidency in the first place. The whole "let's all just unite and get along" fantasy is exactly that - a fantasy. Your centrist nonsense is a nonstarter. The answer is to go nuclear on the GOP using the same playbook as them, but for good and to fix the problems the last 9 years exploited. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Do you like this game: Super Mario Land |
| doshindude 09/01/25 11:05:45 AM #33 | I do and don't like it and can't decide on what my thoughts are really. I love that it's less gimmicky compared to later games, and feels very true to the Game Boy aesthetic. SML2 by comparison didn't age as well and its huge sprites and screen crunch make it very difficult to revisit. I never really liked the Wario Land games for similar reasons. The game's physics are a bit rough and unforgiving at times, and items behave a little strangely like with super balls bouncing in a checkmark formation + mushrooms go through floors as opposed to sliding along them. It's short, but as I get older I actually kind of like the shortness more and more. Makes it easy to pick up, finish, then put down. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | If CatDog became Nickelodeon's next big hit. |
| doshindude 08/31/25 8:35:30 PM #29 | I liked CatDog. Definitely had more edge and rewatchability than SpongeBob for sure. I love the Work Force episode when they are employees at the Cavity Crunch factory. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | this motherfucking cricket |
| doshindude 08/31/25 8:31:48 PM #7 | theres been one in my house in the heater vent the past few days. I dont mind it though. Could be worse. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Military purges continue... Head of DIA, Chief of Navy Reserve and |
| doshindude 08/31/25 8:30:12 PM #55 | Takuya_Lee posted... Second dream. First dream is cholesterol. A cholesterol coup is always possible. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | Echoes of Wisdom is amazing holy shit |
| doshindude 08/31/25 8:29:06 PM #61 | Zelda feels very fun to play in the late game after she has most of the echoes and upgrades. I wish a future sequel starts her out at that power level as opposed to the start of EoW. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
| Topic | The Rock is looking less brolic these days |
| doshindude 08/31/25 8:23:51 PM #23 | Hogan dropping dead probably scared him straight. --- Kind reminder not to defend corporations when they make dumb/anti-consumer decisions. |
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