Folks at the time specifically harped on Nintendo for its online perspective being naive and outdated, and to be fair, it was!
But in a world in which an always-on internet connection with vendor software updates means ever more elaborate ways to sneak in ads, rent you your own data, and exfiltrate your data to soulless content farms, a device with community updates, simple tools, the ability to post, and the ability to stay fully offline is the absolute best thing.
So far, my antidote to commercial software trying to sell me on increasingly more dubious AI has been to go back to creative software I enjoyed a decade ago. Which specifically means I've been spending a lot more time on my 2DS XL messing around with Colors! 3D and Pokemon Art Academy again. (I also plan to mess with Flipnote again at some point.)
I'm also very amused that Pretendo Miiverse is absolutely thriving, including and especially around the community for Splatoon 1.
A day late, sorry! Let's continue with our trip through memory lane starting off with Keel and Sherbert.
new ash art! a bust painted by tokyozilla on bsky. they did a wonderful job, i am enamored
HEY AVALI! Protect your giant spess raptor eyes with some GOGGLES.
Steampunk/engineer style goggles for the Javali, Spiri'Vali, and Jerry Avali VRchat avatar bases:
Gumroad: https://inkblitz.gumroad.com/l/avaligoggs
Jinxxy: https://jinxxy.com/Inkblitz/avaligoggs
If you find yourself wishing you could follow #Bluesky accounts without having to actually use it, try using an RSS reader.
They added RSS to each account a while ago and you can follow any public account that way.
Original Unreal and Unreal Tournament have been officially provided to archive.org for download.
#videogames #videogamepreservation #unreal #unrealtournament
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