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New arcade just opened up near me, they’ve got maimai, Chunithm, and Wacca all patched to connect to unofficial servers with most songs unlocked. Cabs are all in excellent condition, I’m never going back to Round 1 again. Location’s perfect too, at the mall 10 minutes away from where my local Riichi Mahjong club meets, so this may be my new Wednesday routine to hang out there before club.

Deltarune ch3/4 is the only 2025 release I’ve played, so I guess that wins by default.

Hard to put this on an absolute scale with no frame of reference, but maybe like 7-8? I’ve got a CS degree and I run Linux at home. I know enough to know how much I don’t know, but I know how to Google the things I don’t know and figure it out. Which is the skill that really matters, right?

But the shouty man on TV said tariffs were good! Why vibeo janes cost more?

On here? No one. On other platforms, only two people have ever given me enough grief that I needed to.

There’s an argument to be made that ICANN shouldn’t have made .zip a valid TLD due to potential confusion. But that’s ICANN’s problem, and it’s a bit too late to undo that mistake now. You don’t need to worry that there’s something wrong with a Fediverse instance using it. As long as you can tell the difference between a community and a zip file, nothing bad is going to happen.

I’d be very surprised if it’s a stable 60fps on last-gen. We know the Switch 2 version will be enhanced to take advantage of the hardware.

Win?

Panel Attack has tournaments on a regular basis.

I don’t know about defending Roblox, but Hansen is really not a good guy either. There is no hero in this story.

Takopi’s Original Sin.

But if this other consciousness has no continuity or connection to the consciousness that is currently ‘you’, how can it be said to be you?

Suppose reincarnation was real. But no one has any memory or awareness of a past life. So then what connection does said past life even have to you? How can any supposed past 'you’s really be considered the same you?

Bring back octagonal gated analog sticks.

The Atari crash was a lot more multifaceted than that, but E.T. is often credited as one of the biggest factors. Though it was arguably more of a symptom of a lack of quality control as the market was being flooded with rushed titles.

While I’ve had to deal with a few recurring bullies who really don’t like me, I doubt any of them would take it far enough to go after me IRL.

I hope.

They have when you factor in DLC.

Super Famicom/SNES - 1990
Dreamcast - 1998
Xbox - 2001

While Nintendo did briefly change their layout for the N64 and Gamecube, they went back to SNES for the DS (2004) and Wii Classic Controller (2006), and they’ve kept it ever since. So that has been their standard for 21 years now.

I don’t look down at my controller to read the button labels. Swapping them physically makes no sense to me, more moving parts to complicate manufacturing for a feature that I’m never going to look down at.

I use a black 8BitDo Pro 2, dark enough that the button labels that technically exist aren’t readable. Looks nicer that way, don’t need 'em.

I grew up a Nintendo kid, that’s what’s ingrained in my head, and it is a bit of a nuisance sometimes that everything on PC expects Xbox layout. But I just have it remapped in software, problem solved, no reason why I would need to physically move the buttons in hardware.

This is what Switch UI does, in order to accomodate sideways JoyCons.