You’d want us to keep him? Eww, no thanks.

I’d rather prevent him from coming at all.

I consider the best “New” to be Wii by far. Good challenge, good level diversity, the right kind of chaotic fun in multiplayer.

The first NSMB was still very basic, and U was boring and uninspired. New Super Luigi U was the best part of U, at least it tried something, but too little too late.

NSMB2 felt like the worst example of “we need a Mario game now, pile up random shit until we have one”. I mean, they tried to have a gimmick in this one, putting it everywhere in theming and it’s… Collecting more coins than usual? And even then they don’t do anything with it.

By the way, of course everyone is allowed their opinion, but… 30 years later, still team SMB3.

Yeah it’s usualy how they work. At some point you could do it with a modified custom map for Smash Bros. IIRC before that another hack used that Tales of Symphonia Wii sequel everyone has forgotten ever existed.

On Wii U, they found a way to execute code from a vulnerability in the web browser, so that’s convenient. Just go to the right website and you can launch your homebrew installer that will replace the useless “Health and Safety” app.

There was a time you needed to sacrifice a legitimately acquired DS game on the Wii U (Brain Training DS was a popular choice, because it was free at one point. And most people don’t care about being able to play that, especially on a home console).

I had those. I am pretty sure they were huge because everything was mostly uncompressed.

I remember using a program to extract game data. Every environment was a literal bitmap image the size of the area, and there were additional bitmaps of the same size for each, where pixel colours were used by the engine to check where characters could walk, what part of the scenery is overhead, etc.

It was cool looking into the adaptive music though. Every track was split in multiple bits of a couple seconds, so for example if the battle theme needed to end it could branch into a specific ending variation seamlessly. I don’t think a lot of games did that back then.

Stuff like that happened with the Wii and 3DS. Suddenly a random LEGO game that’s not being produced anymore becomes the hottest game on the second hand market because it can be used to inject code and install homebrew.

Until someone finds another way in at least.

I liked Wonder. It’s a decent attempt at refreshing 2D Mario, and some of the level gimmicks were quite fun. I think they’ve tried to recapture the effect of “every level a new idea” in 3D World, though I’d agree they were not as succesful in this one.

It’s a lot better than NSMB U IMO, that one was incredibly bland (especially after NSMB Wii, that one was great).

So you’d support a “day” unit of time that has no relation with the times the sun is rising and setting?

if your “day” is exactly a 365th or 366th of a year, you’ll have to work with with the fact a specific hour like 12PM would gradually deviate to be any time from sun’s zenith to the middle of the night.

It’d still be a mess anyway. How do you subdivide your two year halves? What do your months look like? If they still exist.

Assuming you use equinoxes too, you can split your year in 4… Except since you’ve got 365 days to split, it will never be a perfect split.

And turns out the Earth doesn’t care about synchronizing rotation and revolution and the year is actually about 365.24 days. so you still have freaking leap days every four years, except not every hundred year, except yes please every 400. Or whatever rule you make to fix the inevitable deviation.

And then Mercator uncle’s like “Projection? What’s a projection? The Earth’s flat!”

Thank you, Scotty.

Some people even think that adding things like “don’t hallucinate” and “write clean code” to their prompt will make sure their AI only gives the highest quality output.

Arthur C. Clarke was not wrong but he didn’t go far enough. Even laughably inadequate technology is apparently indistinguishable from magic.

I don’t even use gmail professionally and I was still using that.

Some (terribly implemented) services don’t allow changing e-mail on their accounts, and I have stuff I subscribed to aeons ago with a mail I am not using anymore.

Not that I can’t connect directly to that old crappy mail provider, but it’s very inconvenient.

Hey, I have some of those.

Oh. More than I thought actually. Like already a dozen and I just reached “I”.

Though a few have been replaced by newer versions.

Most Wii games used single layer DVDs, but it had a couple Dual-Layer DVD games, obviously still a lot smaller than Blu-ray. Including Smash, Xenoblade, Metroid Prime Trilogy, and also that Metroid game that shall not be named.

It was not as transparent because it required a system update to support those… and because some Wiis with faulty disc drives had to be replaced because they couldn’t read them at all. I had to send mine to support.

Tempting, but you know someone will get murdered for that at some point.

In the 90s they put random English phrases instead of translating.

Bad example. The original line was already about shorts. It also became a meme in the series and lots of later episodes have some guy being enthusiastic about shorts around the begining of the game.

https://legendsoflocalization.com/articles/pokemon-comfy-shorts-japanese/

It’s true this sounds a bit more random in English than Japanese, but it was an attempt at translating it.

Your cat’s data belongs to the people, comrade!

Maybe they expected a slightly less angry response, but they probably don’t mind. They don’t care if their model looks bad, they definitely want it to be a talking point before everything else.

Like the recent article in Wall Street Journal dunking on their stupid “vending machine”. Or when they publish studies about how training the model to make bad code on purpose turns it into literally Hitler. They want people to talk about it.

Of all the stuff people do for cosmetic reasons, I think I will never get poisoning your face muscles with a deadly neurotoxin.

Are you? I’m pretty sure you can replace “high-level marketing execs” with houseplants, with zero impact on productivity.