I kept thinking during the entire microsoft show how weird it was just how little charisma and tonal consistency there was. It was like watching robot people talk at me about whatever oddities were currently in their cupboard.

Anyway, this article was a really fun read after all that.

Everything in your life is done for money. Every music record, every pithy article, every donation fund, every non-profit.

If you think that Ben is doing so disproportionately, then say so.

There is nothing I find more irritating than this weasely, faux-innocent JAQing from people who just happen to dislike the person currently leading the charge.

it’s fucked that it took Legos to do so,

Your contempt for the meager simpletons you must suffer the indignity of standing shoulder to shoulder with is not doing us any favors. Leave it at the door.

I also think it’s pretty fucked that it took a Lego collection to wake people up

I imagine this is deeply contemptuous to you, but this is the kind of thing that gets people invested in politics.

For one, there could be a lot of young people here who missed BLM.

For two, the typical person is really fucking cynical. It may just be that this lego thing actually feels achievable, whereas state-sanctioned murder is like… even BLM didn’t accomplish anything.

I understand that this may be embarassing for you, that it’s about legos, but where there is energy, you should lean into it. There are people who care now about what these police are doing, so be the voice in their ear that guides them beyond this one incident.

Make an accusation or don’t, stop being a coward.

What if he has really powerful lungs?

Uh, Zelda’s always done the tapestry thing though, haven’t they? 'Cause they like being presented as old myths.

I do think it’s possible, though. I don’t want what I’m saying to be read as pessimism: Skyward Sword cared about its storyline kind of a lot, and while BotW and TotK don’t put it in your face all the time, I mean, they added voice actors. For the very first time, Zelda has voices.

And it’s not like OoT isn’t enamored with Hyrule’s dark past. If they’re going to expand on anything, it’ll almost certainly be that.

It’s worth waiting to see some actual gameplay, I think. I can’t really say what my expectations are because we haven’t even seen anything.

Oh, I’m fully aware.

This right here:

It’s always been hard to expect Nintendo to actually do anything about any of it because they never ever do,

is what I mean by “Zelda doesn’t care about it’s plot.” Nintendo has almost always been more interested in gameplay first, and maybe experiential storytelling second. ‘Experiential’ being the kind that you, the player, tell along with Link, in the sense that ‘you’ literally are him.

Actually, I would relate Zelda’s environmental storytelling to the kind of beach seashell collecting that Miyamoto has always wanted Zelda to feel like, where it’s more about the feeling of discovery than it is the specific implications of it all. Not to say those implications are never taken seriously.

That said, I am salivating a bit at the thought of what they might be doing for the Forest Temple. That place has so much atmosphere, and atmosphere is something Zelda has always done really, really well.

OoT doesn’t care about its plot nearly as much. I suppose it could, though. It depends.

Really, I need new dungeons at a minimum. That’s what I care about. If I’ll be solving the same puzzles for the 35th time, I don’t want to.

Also, re: FF7, I squeal with glee every time I see Cid—I’m so happy with what they’ve done.

1. The code from stack is (or was) written by a person who has some interest in solving the problem in a good way.

2. You should not be blindly copying things from stack.

3. I actually can’t remember the last time I’ve even done this.

Who is ‘we’ exactly? Did I need someone’s permission?

I’m not reading the article because I’m lazy.

My friend has a copy of SF6 I can borrow and I will be for this alone. Also the Cami stretch.

Parts 1 and 2 are on Switch 2, but I imagine that’s not what you meant.

I would be surprised if either of them ran well on Switch 1.

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It’s the soy sauce, man, you gotta be careful with that stuff.

Half the time!

I make fried rice, wtf.

should people be able to record it without asking the stabber for permission or not?

You can do this with a clearly visible camera.

You know, I think Goat and his ilk should be allowed to have their secret camera glasses, but only if they’re required by law to look like this.

Well, fucking don’t.

I wouldn’t even like what I do if I had to use this shit.

Stanley Parable button pusher life for real.

The dog can’t decide (as much as it does decide anything) to drool when it hears the bell,

I do think that it is a mistake to assume that the dog is not conscious, or not conscious enough, to know what the bell means.

Like, we could say that the dog is operating purely on instinct, but that would require that we think of them as philosophical zombies completely incapable of self-awareness.

It is also possible that the dog has learned the bell sound as a “word” that means “food” and simply agrees that it would like some food soon. Not all that different from me asking a coworker if they want to get sandwiches.