VindictiveJudge

There was that time Sega suddenly dropped the Saturn into the US market months ahead of schedule. Shot themselves in the foot doing it, too.

A mouse mode could be extremely useful for things like Civilization or Fire Emblem. Of course, the touch screen is also great for that and Three Houses and Triangle Strategy didn’t support it.

Sure, but the game sets the resolution, not the console. The game might get a performance boost or a more stable frame rate on better hardware, but unless it gets a patch to detect which system it’s running on and adjust the resolution accordingly, most games will still run in 720p.

Would the NFC system in the stick interfere with hall effect sensors?

I’m guessing the all grey model probably sold better than the one with colorful joycons so they lead with that this time.

Probably because he always outwits his opponents and always wins. He’s not any more crazy than the other Looney Tunes, he’s as smart as Bugs, and unlike Bugs, he’s never cruel and remains firmly heroic.

Is there any possibility this is done just to make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening™?

I think it’s either that, or directors for major movies tending to be fabulously wealthy and not knowing what normal people have for breakfast.

I just noticed how much Professor Utonium looks like Samurai Jack. A distant descendant, perhaps?

Maybe in three or four years when the mid-gen refresh comes out.

people generally decided that most of the time, being 3D didn’t add enough to the viewing experience to be worth paying extra

Because most of them were just 2D movies converted to 3D in post. Doing that tends to look like crap. The ones filmed for 3D, like Avatar, looked amazing, but studios didn’t want to wait for the next wave of films and wanted 3D now with what they already had.

Even after the camera for it was invented (for Avatar, iirc) most studios just filmed in 2D and converted it to 3D, which looked awful. So on the one hand you have a small number of movies, like Avatar and Coraline, filmed in 3D and looking gorgeous, but on the other hand you have a ton of movies filmed in 2D and hastily converted to 3D to cash in on the success of the ones filmed that way. Those movies looked awful and pretty much killed the trend.

However, the theaters still had the equipment to show them because it’s not like there’s really anyone to sell it to, and the 3D cameras are still out there, too. So every once in a while someone decides to put that equipment to use. It’s not many, though, and most 3D movies are still 2D conversions, so you don’t get much out of viewing them in 3D, and the conversion process and the display tech can actually make them look worse than just watching the original 2D version.

If you’re not happy with your side, you also get one last chance to switch when you are tasked with acquiring the Jagged Crown. If you’ve decided you don’t like your guy, you can bring it to the other guy.

KotOR’s control scheme is definitely weird. It’s a turn based game but the turns are obfuscated to appear like real time. On top of that, it’s in an engine intended for top-down isometric mouse-driven gameplay but it’s been kludged into an over-the-shoulder console game, then that control scheme was kludged back to mouse-driven for the PC port. It felt real good on the original Xbox way back in 2003, but if I hadn’t played it back then I would probably have some difficulty with it now.

The writing is shockingly good, though, especially for 2003. It was easily one of the best things in the expanded universe.

Not choosing is what the Thalmor want. Reading the notes in their embassy makes it clear that they want the war to drag on as long as possible since it weakens both the Empire and Skyrim, improving the Dominion’s odds of victory in the next war. Any resolution to the civil war is less bad than allowing it to continue. There is no good option, just ones you can live with and ones you can’t.

Yeah, the Empire really only enforces the ban while the Thalmor are looking. Elisif is another Talos worshiper and she’s their choice for ruler of the province.

RROD was actually 3/4ths of a circle. A full red circle was a different and less troubling error.

Unfortunately, that’s the anti-scalper countermeasure. Crippling their crypto mining potential didn’t impact scalping very much, so they increased the price with the RTX 40 series. The RTX 40s were much easier to find than the RTX 30s were, so here we are for the RTX 50s. They’re already on the edge of what people will pay, so they’re less attractive to scalpers. We’ll probably see an initial wave of scalped 3090s for $3500-$4000, then it will drop off after a few months and the market will mostly have un-scalped ones with fancy coolers for $2200-$2500 from Zotac, MSI, Gigabyte, etc.

Like a wombat?

Shatner is also pretty clearly using stage acting techniques instead of screen acting techniques in much of the show, screen acting as a distinct skill still being rather new at the time. You can also see Nimoy using much more modern feeling acting and Kelley using something in between.

Micro is actually tactics since it’s on the level of a single engagement. Strategy is more about the game as a whole, like scouting and map control.