Weren’t there trailers for both during the Game Awards? Seems a pretty big confirmation:

https://youtu.be/ZPvrzaC44pc

https://youtu.be/Y5A83J2rBCE

There were rumors of a human/chimp hybrid decades ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

Despite the existence of Oliver, it still seems unproven:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_(chimpanzee)

Always liked this one:

But this one is good too…

Skrull.

At first I was like “WTF does an indie games site have to do with Funko?” then I Googled it…

Looks like they hosted a BUNCH of infringing games, so Funko, instead of doing the righteous thing and sending them a takedown request, just nuked the whole domain…

“YOU ARE HERE” map.

Admins have been talking about it, it looks like it has something to do with banning/unbanning users. Sometimes a ban/unban doesn’t want to propagate to .ee and that causes a logjam somehow.

Smarter people than me are looking at it!

Related: Sunil Tripathi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Sunil_Tripathi

“I tell him how Virtua Fighter on the Saturn impressed me, but not as much as Tekken on the PlayStation. It was King’s multi-part chain throw that did it for me, in Tekken 2 I think, although my memory is fuzzy.”

If the author was 13 or 14 when the Saturn came out, I would have been about 10 years older. My memory on this is crystal clear:

Sega shit the bed by releasing the Saturn early in the US. They wanted to beat the Playstation to release, so they dropped the Saturn to “selected retailers” and the games just were not ready.

The idea that you could patch them post release did not exist yet and Virtua Fighter was so bad that Sega had to give away a free update called Virtua Fighter Remix to Saturn owners.

How bad was it?

Virtua Fighter Arcade:
https://youtu.be/rCKKe25P4l4

Virtua Fighter Saturn vs. Remix:

https://youtu.be/ubJSL5GhSZU

So I waited to see what Playstation had to offer and I got to play it at San Diego Comic Con that year.

The one that sold me instantly wasn’t Tekken… it was Battle Arena Toshinden.

https://youtu.be/vtSlGWHdE3U

That was my 9/9/1995 Playstation purchase.

Ouch on the timing:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/labor-department-investigating-hellofresh-allegedly-employing-migrant-children/story?id=116530077

I know there was a problem where federation was lagging by a couple of days, but I thought it was fixed? I’ll hit up the Admins.

Not even 30 seconds, it’s as much time as it takes to type the new address and click “save”.

Our CEO made a big announcement about how we were going to move from a B2B (Business to Business) environment to a B2C (Business to Consumer) environment. B2C is the future, Internet of Things, yadda yadda.

So, since we have an open door policy, I popped him an email and asked him what the plan was to invest in our infrastructure because, as it stood then, B2C was out of reach and the clients we had attempting it were finding it wasn’t robust enough, citing my example client list and recent failures.

I got immediate heat. Nobody had told him our infrastructure couldn’t do it. “What are your sources? How do you know?” - Sources cited. CEO went to his yes men: “This guy knows what he’s talking about and seems really sure of what he’s saying…”

Oh.

10 years later, we’re on our 3rd CEO, our infrastructure still isn’t updated, and B2C still hasn’t happened.

The Country
Billy Collins

I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice

might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.

Who could sleep that night?
Who could whisk away the thought
of the one unlikely mouse
padding along a cold water pipe

behind the floral wallpaper
gripping a single wooden match
between the needles of his teeth?
Who could not see him rounding a corner,

the blue tip scratching against a rough-hewn beam,
the sudden flare, and the creature
for one bright, shining moment
suddenly thrust ahead of his time—

now a fire-starter, now a torchbearer
in a forgotten ritual, little brown druid
illuminating some ancient night.
Who could fail to notice,

lit up in the blazing insulation,
the tiny looks of wonderment on the faces
of his fellow mice, onetime inhabitants
of what once was your house in the country?

Meanwhile, inside:

https://gunshowcomic.com/648

I needed one for testing. :)

In order:

Android (home)
Windows 11 (work)
Playstation
Xbox
Windows 11 (home)
Steamdeck
iOS (work)
Switch

And then there’s…

82% Positive? Are you shitting me?

I find the same thing, but I’m really questioning the taste of others.

Never really did PC gaming, bought a SteamDeck to get into that ecosystem after seeing all the posts about “ZOMG! STEAM SALE!!!”

Are people just… not discerning? Do you just buy ANYTHING because it’s on sale?

The signal to noise ratio on Steam is just nuts to me… Yeah, some game might be $1.99, 90% off, but if it’s not worth the bandwidth to download, why are you bothering? Do you lack the ability to tell good games from bad games?

If Papyrus was a GBA…