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...huh, apparently there was a portable version of the PC-Engine / Turbografx, with a gameboy form factor but a backlit screen and full compatibility with all PC-Engine games

and it came out in 1990

apparently the reason it didn't do well was 1) NEC was really bad at advertising, 2) it was expensive as fuck, and 3) NEC wasn't really a well known game company on the scale of nintendo and sega

(only reason 2) applies to japanese sales though)

so wait what is this thing people are talking about, is quicktime suddenly relevant again or something

so what exactly does it mean for a piece of media to "jump the shark", and why is it called "jumping the shark"

well we just learned that the UK government apparently hired people to drive around trucks with signs on them threatening immigrants and telling them to leave the country

this is the kind of behavior i would expect out of the us government except maybe not even that because they seem to be trying (and failing) to be covert about what they're doing, the uk apparently has officially-sanctioned trucks saying basically "get out or we'll arrest you"

i have a really strong weakness for multi-headed cuties...

the fact that the game boy always advertised the fact that it had a "dot matrix" always seemed weird to us until we realized that prior to the game boy, the only handheld systems in existence either used shaped LCDs like the game and watch series, or used a dozen or so LEDs like that old football thing

i for one think that boktai was kojima's greatest work

quite possibly because it's the only game he directed that we've actually played though

i just think there's a lot you could do with the solar gun to make interesting movesets

hmm. it's never going to happen but django would be an interesting character for smash

perhaps a tag-team setup with sabata? or a transformation one with dark django

of course it's never going to happen because approximately twelve people in the universe even know the boktai series existed but still

biochemistry can be defined as the study of organic molecules large enough that they could have holes in them

bad(?) idea: music where the instrumentation completely changes with every beat

grocery store had a sale on frozen meal things

got a bunch, including a potatoes au gratin one

the potatoes one says to microwave it for _six minutes_. _six_.

so what exactly was it that made mario and zelda make the 2d->3d transition so smoothly but sonic was just an absolute trainwreck? not to mention bubsy

Well, that makes twice in as many years that we've found someone's lost debit card lying on the ground in the publix parking lot. This feels like it should not be a thing that happens more than like once, if at all

why do people have to hate each other

why can't people just be understanding and help each other or at the very least just let the people they dislike do their own thing that isn't bothering anyone

thank you for attempting to explain this, everyone who has done so. my heads hurt now and i don't know if i understand things any better or worse than i did initially but maybe we should take a break from this and re-read what people have said later

i keep seeing people talking about uk politics and "the benn bill" and "an extension" and i have no idea what is going on but i hope it isn't as bad as the stuff that' shappening over here

There are people here who know stuff about math, right? Could I ask someone to help me understand something I'm just not getting? I posted a question (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3349594/are-the-definite-and-indefinite-integrals-actually-two-different-things-where-i) on stackexchange but all that's resulted in is conversations in the comments going in circles.

i just realized that it's very likely that whoever gets the democrats' nomination for president will be the next president of the united states, pretty much no matter who that is

it is very likely the democratic party is going to do whatever they can to manipulate some awful centrist into getting that nomination because they know that whoever that is, they'll still be better than the alternative

i just hope the nomination goes to sanders or someone with similar (i.e. existent) morals