Dr Suss

Next week we find out the super pac created by the organization of American router manufacturers gave Trump a billion dollars

If it was a Switch 2 exclusive, I’d be happy for Metroid. It’s a series I love, and it has never broken out as a mainstream success. As a dual release, it’s bad. There’s 155M Switch 1s out there, and so few people picked this up.

I don’t understand why these tech executives wanna sell us on AI. AI is not going to make consumer’s lives better, it’s meant to reduce costs (by fucking over their employees). It’s 100% a B2B tool. Consumers fucking hate AI slop.

A Link to the Past. It’s a perfect video game.

I feel so bad for the kids of anti-vaxxers. It’s not their fault that their parents are complete morons.

Happy new year, @lexluddy.xyz! Happy to see you back on Game Mess Mornings!

Got my EMR licence, got hired as a private medic, helped some people at Lapu Lapu and some other events, got hired as an ambulance paramedic, got accepted into PCP school, got a new job.

Of course HE doesn’t want to argue about AI slop, he owns one of the AI slop producing machines. Fuck him.

Link canonically fucks.

Reminder that buying EA means actively supporting a genocidal regime that oppresses women and murder journalists, while helping enrich Trump and his family even more. There is no ethical consumption in capitalism, but this is particularly egregious.

Good call. That looked like sparring for AJ, and Paul looked like he was hanging on for dear life.

Good way to end the year on Game Mess Mornings! @jasonfanelli.com is my favourite guest.

Metroid Prime 4 is good. It has great moments, beautiful graphics, solid performance and Samus is as cool as ever. But that dude telling me where to go now that I have a new power is unacceptable.

I think Vox is out of ideas. But most people are not.

We should always say his name: Ahmed al-Ahmad. What he did took an unimaginable amount of courage and I wish him a speedy recovery.

I hope they port it to Switch 2. Xbox is a dying platform. Hope it does great on PC!

When something “doesn’t make sense”, it just doesn’t make sense to you. He’s not intelligent enough to comprehend beyond his tiny view of the world.

In therapy, I realized I was still frustrated with myself for not going to med school. So I decided to be a paramedic, as it still helps people and it was achievable at my age. I got a job with a private company working events. My first event was Lapu Lapu. Now I can never do anything else.

After 2 chapters of Dispatch, I’m in.

This is absolutely cursed and also simply amazing. Great work, Pickle Giraffe. Just exceptional stuff.

My 7yo asked to play Roblox for the first time this week. A couple of her friends play. Over my dead body. That pedophile infested sewer is a hard no from me.

Must suck to be Nico Harrison and absolutely know, with 100% certainty, that you are done as a sports general manager. No team will touch him with a 10 foot pole. Pretty much every fanbase would riot.

Is anyone surprised that Meta is acting like complete assholes? It’s who they are. They enable misinformation, they thrive on hate and they probably see these mods as drivers for demand. Meta is an evil corporation at its core.

With PS5 around the same sales as PS4 and Xbox decreasing in size, the total console market is smaller. That’s not good.

This game, on the SNES Classic, reignited my love of gaming. I was a Sega kid, and missed out on most Nintendo games. A Link to the Past opened a door that cannot be closed.

This has been happening for years. The difference is that the assets are auto-generated. I went to a Google basecamp conference in 2019 that talked about A/B testing at scale. Companies created thousands of variants of each ad, with minimal variation, and whichever performed better, stayed.

30 hours into Dragon Quest 8 on 3DS, and I’m having a blast. A modded New Nintendo 3DS XL is a magical adventure.

Just found out that the New 3DS XL I bought on the cheap (because the shell had some damage) has a top IPS screen. So lucky! Already ordered my replacement shell and modded it. This baby is about to become the ultimate handheld RPG machine.

These suits just don’t see gaming the way most consumers see gaming: it’s a passion for us, and for most developers. It’s an art form. We don’t want AI “art”. We want human experiences that can only be achieved by humans. I expect my gaming habits to shift far away from these types of games.

They are out of mass market consoles. They are going niche + 3rd party. Sony about to charge whatever they want for next gen, and it’s still gonna be cheaper than the Xbox.

We are getting a 60 minute Nintendo Direct dedicated to Kirby. If you add both Directs, Sakurai will have talked about Kirby Air Riders for longer than the entire length of Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

And it looks like a remastered GameCube game.

Real questions: what are Americans expecting from this No Kings stuff? Are they expecting any change at all? Are they making any demands? Despots don’t just see that they have opposition and choose to change, they need to be forcibly removed. Half of Americans don’t even care enough to vote.

In “America’s pastime”, the GOAT is Japanese. 6IP, 10K, 1H, 0ER, 3-3, 3HR. In a series clinching game to go to the World Series. I thought baseball was supposed to be harder than this.

How the fuck didn’t the Angels win anything with Ohtani and Trout? Dude is literally the GOAT.

PlayStation fans didn’t deserve Astrobot. It was too good for them.

There is something so immensely satisfying about a retro gaming collection with properly scrapped box art and metadata. It’s delightful.

Dear @yachtclubgames.bsky.social, take your time. We’ll be ready to buy Mina when you’re ready to put it out onto the world. Shout out to Celia. Must be hard putting this out and delaying her whole marketing plan, but she’s a trooper.

After 70+ hours of Silksong, 98% completion, I’m struggling to be interested in anything.

One was before the push up bra was invented, the other is after.

Finally got myself a New Nintendo 3DS. I have been wanting one for a long time. It needs to be reshelled, but it’s pretty good shape. Already modded it. Just installing all the games I love from the system.

I’m struggling more with Flea Juggle than I did with Savage Beastfly. Fuck, I love Silksong.

Oh, thank god. I really want to play this game, but I don’t have time or money right now. This game should have room to breathe, I bet it’s going to be superb.

And that’s how you know that the second amendment is nothing but bullshit. A tyrannical government is forming and all those morons with guns. that were supposed to “protect” the country, are all applauding.

The enshitification of gaming continues.