That part is like only like five fights against humans and robots, the only tricky part is the kicky robots will ruin you if you save them for last. And you’ve been without Yuna for a bit by that point so somebody (Kimahri or Rikku) should be filling in the healer role already. It is a weird and kinda weak story sequence but I think the game starts improving after that point.

Plane or sand it smooth and refinish it. Probably you would need to strip and refinish the whole thing to blend it in but that is an advantage to wooden furniture.

Nobody should be obliged to host bigotry. That’s not “censorship” in a way that matters.

Most influential… it might be Castle Adventure on MSDOS or something like Alleyway on the Gameboy simply because they were the first games I remember playing. Or an old Mac program like Factory or Maelstrom or Power Pete with which I wiled away many hours. Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament was the first time I messed around with modding and that computer literacy and problem solving certainly had an impact.

I didn’t go into any computer-related fields, I just really like video games and they’ve been both a solo hobby and social catalyst for my entire conscious life. Maybe Super Smash Bros Melee or Star Wars Battlefront 2 or Halo because the early 2000s cemented some of my longest friendships and those were at the forefront.

The fan base is earned.

This is what I have a problem with. The fan base WAS earned but now is taken for granted.

You can’t just pretend that online play isn’t important for multiplayer games. It’s a huge knock against the titles you mentioned.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land tries so hard to keep gameplay smooth that any enemies more than like 15 feet away drop to 8fps and it still dips when there’s too many effects on screen. Breath of the Wild simply banishes mobs that get too far away (or just run for too long) to keep the memory functional (and many things don’t even render at the edge of bow range). Super Mario Odyssey also aggressively culls actors and gets a bit sad when you force too much on screen (high up in Metro Kingdom, for example) It might not matter to you but it impacts the game enough for me to notice it.

I simply don’t think that you can trust a Nintendo game to be worth the day 1 cost.

Nintendo makes pretty good games but nothing about their product is “top tier”. The online experience is terrible, their flagship games suffer from framerate dips, pop-in, and stuttering because they don’t invest in better hardware, and speaking of hardware they went with the same will-break-down-and-drift sticks because they’ve been coasting for ages. Meanwhile they’re suing fan projects into the dirt and growing increasingly out of touch. (Sony and Xbox are hot on their heels, the big three could really do with some outside competition)

Final Fantasy VIII, almost at the end of the third disc. Hot take: this is my favorite PS1 entry in the series (and IX is my second favorite). I’m not going to pretend it’s a perfect game but it takes a lot of chances and I think most of the them pay off.

I got half on my own, but I threw in the towel after half an hour and I’m glad I did.

People can prefer lots of stuff, “this aspect of the English language is not to apply to me” is a lot of cognitive load to ask for.

Which is an awkward and strange way to speak to people.

Currently it’s a basic starting point that they fully expect users to augment with their sound solution of choice. This is fine. I don’t want to pay more for my next television because you’re too lazy to figure out what the sockets on the back are for.

That’s what they sell sound bars for. They even have brackets to hand the sound bar from your tv or wall mount. Putting that in every tv adds a hundred bucks for hardware not everyone will use.

“One size fits all” sucks, it’s better to offer a modular system that people can adapt to their needs and situation. It requires a tiny bit of extra effort but plenty of retailers will do the thinking for you too if you pay them.

I, too, am sick of everything being dumbed down for the people least invested in something. It’s what a whole ass tv costs because the tv is only half of the system. (Really It’s about a third, the last piece is the room you’re watching stuff in and the furniture it contains. Physical layout matters.)

I spent $400 on headphones to address this and despite having had enough issues with build quality to not recommend Bowers & Wilkins specifically, they sound damn good.

If you want your TV to have an audio system on par with the 4k OLED display it’s going to cost twice as much and weigh three hundred pounds. And be gargantuan. Speakers need space to move air and resonate.

The human brain: “Ha! That’ll show me!”

Teens are kids, they’ve just got half a brain and adult hormones mixed in. They still need guidance and supervision.

Well that’s at least an inch of electronics and lens and doesn’t address the focal distance problem. You’re putting the cart well before the horse here, automatically swapping from AR to immersive VR is the last thing to solve.

Where, then, is the display?

And they kinda suck.