the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

I see people talking about video game framerates and 1080p vs 720p and I'm just over here perfectly happy with a gameboy color or something, I feel out of the loop

Do you ever have one of those days where everything seems to go just slightly wrong, not wrong enough to make it a bad day, but that's almost making it even more frustrating because you can't truthfully say you had a bad day

That was our today. x.x

In a similar vein, air conditioners are everywhere, but no one seems to make fire, earth, or water conditioners.

They make space heaters, but it's surprisingly difficult to find a time heater.

*quilava-flavored beeps*

It's the little touches that really make a game. Case in point: In Metroid Prime 2, whenever you enter a save station, Samus slumps her shoulders and looks ever so slightly downward, in a way that conveys very well that she's _tired_. She knows she has to continue on, and she takes a deep breath and straightens up immediately after saving, but that brief moment of vulnerability really shows you that Samus is a _person_, not just some kind of idealized force of good.

you could take this in a lot of ways, and I bet some of those ways would be better than my thoughts on it, but I was just thinking about how there are games that are literary classics in their own right, like Tales of Symphonia or Suikoden

An idea (good or bad, you be the judge): A video game club that functions like a book club, where everyone plays a game and then discusses it

no other job that we know of has made such a complete transition from job to machine. Some have made a partial transition; words like "dishwasher" can mean either the job or the machine.

It's weird to think sometimes that "computer" used to be a job description, not a device.

I wonder sometimes, has the DMCA ever benefited anyone who isn't a large corporation?

Just thinking about the great fan projects that got shut down, like AM2R, countless youtube videos, that one super mario 64 reimplementation in unity

There's something aesthetically pleasing about screw terminals and I don't know what it is.

well, that's enough stackexchange for one day, had someone insult me for advising them (not impolitely) to get a multimeter

I like helping people but sometimes people are just rude

Thinking about the Metroid series and: I maintain that AM2R was a better remake by far than Samus Returns.

Thought: Any time in math or science where the word "real" is used contrastively ("real power" in AC power distribution, "real number" in pure math), you can call the other type of thing "fake"

(I wasn't aware metroids even _had_ a digestive system, but there you go)

In the Metroid Prime series, there are a couple indications that the space pirates find metroids cute. The first two games (and maybe the third) both have notices posted in space pirate areas saying that unauthorized feeding of metroids is not permitted, and that metroids are not pets, and I just came across a caged metroid in the second game that the scanner says has indigestion from eating pet treats and space pirate rations, which disagree with its digestive system