Trivia : The Magi who presented gifts to Jesus were in fact aliens who followed the Star of Bethlehem throughout the universe as it appeared before important events

Oh yeah that’s good stuff. Disney, adapt that shit.

Indeed Professor X is Marvel, Aquaman is DC, and Jesus is New Testament Comics. There are arguments over ownership of some NT characters though, it’s complicated.

Don’t scream, you old fool, you’re gonna hurt your undetermined quantity of ears!

“Refuse to use tiktok”, seriously listen to yourself.

Tiktok is not some kind of new paradigm. It’s yet another social network, one with an annoying gimmick (that it didn’t even invent). A gimmick that makes it harder to do meaningful content and easier to have complete assholes as its superstars.

It’s just a shitty company offering a shitty product.

Mario Kart Wii is very cool, it has some of the best tracks and very fun physics. And I know it’s been a bit of joke online, but the wheel style motion controls were actually fine too.

Though I understand why they toned down the tricks and nerfed bikes in 7 and 8. They were fun, but a bit much.

Asking the real questions here.

Bowtie.

I’ve played several Shiren games (1 on DS, 3 on Wii, 5 and 6 on Switch) and I recommend Shiren 6 (Mystery Dungeons of Serpentcoil Island).

5 kinda went too far from its roguelike roots and feels too grindy, with too many ways to escape safely, especially easy ways to undo your death indefinitely.

6 is a lot more fun to me and makes good runs and crazy builds more special again.

For a very good introduction to the series, if you can play it, the port of Shiren 1 on DS is great and already has a lot of what makes those games fun. There is also a rom hack translation for the original on Super Famicom (that one only existed in Japanese), but I’ve not played that one much.

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Not sure which game you’re thinking about, there are lots of shitty Christian shovelware from that era, but Konami’s Noah’s Ark has nothing to do with it. And very little to do with the biblical story really.

I had that game on the NES (and I’m not in a Christian or religious family at all).

It’s a real game, the arcade-y kind that tries to kill you all the time. It’s quite hard.

I had to look it up. Wow.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulhsieh/2024/09/30/why-you-shouldnt-bring-a-police-rifle-into-an-mri-machine/

That does sound ambitious. I hope they don’t end up biting off more than they can chew and never releasing anything, because this looks promising.

We had the original. The logical puzzles are quite clever. My sisters and I got a bit obsessed with it and completed it together.

Yes, you can complete it, by bringing ALL the possible combinations to the village. That’s 625, and you can save 16 on each trip, if you don’t lose any on the way.

There’s a short congratulations video if you save them all. I was honestly surprised they made one, given the commitment it required.

More literally, memento mori is “remember you will die”. There was a Roman ceremony called the Triumph when a successful war commander would parade on a chariot through Rome.

Allegedly, someone would follow them through the day telling them “memento mori” to… keep them humble, I guess? as they were basically showing off to everyone in a god costume.

Why April?

Romans started the year in March, this is why the names of September (7), October (8), November (9), and December (10) don’t make sense in our calendar.

I’m not sure why there hasn’t been a business simulator where you could live up the glamorous, extremely vicious, exploitative, and horrible life of a movie studio owner in Old Hollywood.

The Movies, 2005.

Technically not just old Hollywood, it goes through the 20th century with technological advances and world events that change movie trends.

Since it’s a business management game from Bullfrog Lionhead, it did have some grit to it, though mostly sarcastic rather than very dark.

I welcome new takes on this though, the movies didn’t age well in some aspects (aspect ratio most notably, ah ah ). I know of Blockbuster Inc that tried to remake that already but the reviews are not great. I’ll try this one.

Not single-player, but snipperclips is good, relaxed puzzle fun.

Goals are visual and easy to understand, each player controls a shape and they can cut each other to try and fit a predefined “hole” together. There are some physics puzzles based on cutting your shape in clever ways too.

Mistakes have no consequence and often lead to funny interactions. You can’t really lose, you just reset your shape and try again.

Yeah, I know. “I’ll try spinning, that’s a good trick” was a silly Star Wars reference too.

That’s an episode one line from kid Anakin that’s been meme’d to hell too :)

It’s an older replay but it still checks out

So you tried spinning, and that was a good trick?

One of the first VR games I played was No Man’s Sky, on base PS4. Very low res and frame rate, teleport movement possible on foot but obviously not while flying spaceships. And I may have tried spinning a bit (that’s a good trick).

Got very sick, very fast.

Nowadays I’m mostly fine playing continuous movement, even relatively fast-paced one. Tunnel effect helps, when it’s available.

The only problems are on badly designed games (like those with forced, unpredictable “cinematic” camera movement, don’t do that in VR for fuck’s sake).