Bring back versus puzzle games. Puyo Puyo is more or less the only surviving IP today, and even that is only barely on life support now that Sega has banished it to Apple Arcade exclusivity.
The whole damn genre lies in ruins now and I miss it so much. Someone, anyone, make a new game please.
Do they though? The biggest and most profitable games right now are all live services. Consumers are very much voting for live services.
Rivals has found its niche, but I don’t think even that is pulling in the kinds of numbers Warner expects for a AAA they sunk this much money into.
What’s a foot long and slippery? A slipper.
What’s red and smells like blue paint? Red paint.
Why did the blind man fall in the well? He couldn’t see that well.
A man goes to the doctor and says “I think I have hearing problems.” “Can you describe the symptoms?” “Sure! Homer’s fat and Marge has blue hair.”
Did you hear about the huge sale at the Lego store? People were lined up for blocks.
I sat down for dinner at a restaurant, and the waiter asked me, “Do you want to hear today’s special?” I said, “Yes please.” “No problem sir. Today is special.”
I’d tell you a time travel joke, but you didn’t get it.
I used to work at a toy factory making plastic Draculas. There were only two of us, so I had to make every second Count.
You don’t have to tell me the other guy is terrible. I know he is.
But did you actually watch the debate? The fact that he came out of that debate arguably looking even worse than Trump - in the eyes of voters, don’t even try to argue this one - was a clear red flag.
There was never any ‘advantage’ here, and Biden stepped down because even he knew it.
If you want to “do everything you can to win”, step one is not running the guy who was borderline incoherent in the debates. Staying by that would’ve been shooting yourself in the leg.
Did we watch the same debate here? There was never any advantage coming out of that one.
What I want to know is if Switch 2 will be able to run Switch 1 games at a higher clock speed, or if it’ll just do what N3DS did. My fear is that every game that ought to be running on Switch 2 already got ported to Switch 1 poorly, and won’t get re-ported.
I’m basing my analysis on the observable trend that incumbents lose when the economy is poor. As well as, y’know, Biden’s abysmal poll numbers after the debate, the reason he dropped out in the first place.
You’re the one who started insisting incumbent advantage would’ve been a thing here, where’s your crystal ball?
Encumbant advantage? In this economic climate, it’s exactly the opposite. People who are feeling increasingly fed up with a world in which they cannot make ends meet vote against the status quo.
4 years of Trump got people to vote against Trump. 4 years of Biden got people to vote against his VP.
Biden himself would lost even harder than Kamala did.
I can’t stop thinking about how in 2016, my conservative grandmother watched the primary debates and told me she actually thought Bernie made a lot of good points.
And then she went on to vote for Donald Trump in November.
This, I think, is the disconnect the DNC keeps failing to recognize.
We just keep nominating milquetoast centrists whose message is little more than “maintain the status quo”, when nobody is happy with the status quo.
But we have to run centrist candidates, they say, or else we’ll lose all the voters in the center!
If that’s how it works, then why is the GOP winning by doing the exact opposite?
In a world where rent keeps going up but wages stay the same, people are scared and frustrated, and they don’t feel like their frustrations are heard.
Along comes a smooth-talking con man who tells them, “I know you’re angry at the world, and I’m going to give you a scapegoat to blame it on. It’s the immigrants’ fault. It’s trans people’s fault. It’s the woke left’s fault. It’s whatever target I tell you to hate next’s fault. And if you elect me, I will stick it to these people in order to Make America Great Again!”
Meanwhile, the best we can do is “Vote for me because everything that other guy said is horrifying.” That’s it. That’s the only real sales pitch we have for Harris. But no matter how terrible the other guy is, it reflects horribly on us that we can’t even talk about our own candidate’s merits at all.
We need to run a candidate who can say, “I too know you’re angry at the world. And I’m here to offer real solutions, not snake oil, and more importantly, not the status quo either.”
The difference between the right and left here is that the right actually likes their guy. And if not even we like our candidates, why should voters?
Alas, we learned nothing in 2016 and I suspect the DNC will continue to learn nothing now.
Is what we’re doing right now getting anywhere?
The system is rigged. Rent keeps going up, wages stay the same. The world is going to shit, and people are feeling increasingly desperate.
Along comes a smooth talking con man who tells them all the problems they’re facing, it’s the immigrants’ fault, it’s trans people’s fault, it’s the woke left’s fault, it’s whatever target he paints next. He knows they’re scared and angry and he leverages that fear to tell them that only he has all the answers.
And they’re desperate enough to believe him.
Lie down, try not to cry, cry a lot.
You can tell this is the one issue he has no real stance on. His handlers are telling him he has to pander, but he’s comically bad at it.
This means that for everything else, if you ever wonder if he truly believes the shit that comes out of his mouth, he absolutely does. We know what he sounds like when he doesn’t.
If felons should be allowed to vote, I don’t think it’s worth carving out an exemption for one particular felon. His vote is a drop in the bucket anyway.
What’s more important is that this felon should not be allowed to run for office.
Stessie - Home
Skullgirls, Vampire Savior - 2nd in SG, 1st in VSav at locals. This happened in grand finals
Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] - Didn’t do too hot in netplay biweekly. Gordeau matchup takes years off my lifespan.
Riichi Mahjong - skill
Splatoon 3 - Splatfestin’
Also finally published the big secret video essay I’d been working on. It’s about Puyo Puyo.
Some games I’m excited enough for to want to spend full price on release. Some games I’ll wait for a sale on. Just depends on the game.
I’m not sure how I feel about this.
In a vacuum, the app itself is a nice value add for your NSO subscription. I like that they have both single-length and extended versions of each track, so you can loop them seamlessly without an intro/outro. Loopable OSTs can be hard to find sometimes, when I was trying to decide what BGM to use for a li’l video essay I recently put out I had to narrow it down to something I could find an extended version of.
But what’s annoying is that this is the only official way to listen to Nintendo music. It’s either this, unofficial rips on Youtube (and I would not be surprised if these start getting taken down), or the seven seas.
I just wanna buy an album and listen to it offline, DRM-free. I want to be able to shuffle these tracks in with the rest of my music library.
But that’s been a problem since before the new app, so I can’t really blame the app for this, can I?
Puyo Puyo Champions - After the video essay I posted two weeks ago ended up doing so much better than I expected, 11k+ views and 600+ likes, I decided to try streaming some ranked for the first time in 2.5 years. I’m still cracked.
Riichi Mahjong - This really ought to be worth a lot more for how rare it is.
Persona 4 Golden - Finally coming back to this, where’d I leave off again?