olmec

@olmec@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net Ratings by Quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Suns just collapse in the 4th Quarter. I feel like it is probably mostly due to a lack of depth with Beal and Booker missing significant time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like your comment is the most reasonable explanation. The charity sounds like it isn’t actively being run. It is probably a misunderstanding. I can see the charity paying for a group to run the charity, but because their income is very small, they want the charity ran frugally, and are paying the minimum required for management. The management is running the account, making sure taxes are filed, etc, but Jirard thought they were dispersing the funds too. They don’t talk much, other than a quick review at tax season, and the issue is never addressed, because both sides don’t interact enough to see the difference.

  This video really frustrated me, because Jobst is claiming things “Fraud” when the evidence he provided looks nothing like that. It isn’t great PR, but nothing so far looks remotely illegal, or even unethical. The internet just loves ragging on a “bad guy,” and are eager to get mad at the bad guy of the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video games that had remarkably hectic public reaction at physical stores during release day?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you have a line of a few hundred people, and have it not wrap around the store? That sounds like the real crazy part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Mario Bros. Wonder sells 4.3m worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it isn’t the most accurate, but New Super Mario Bros U on Wii U had 5.6 Million units in lifetime sales. Mario Wonder is at 4.3M two weeks in. I think Wonder is going to match NSMBU around Thanksgiving day.

  Just crazy to think about the shift in the decade between these two releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the distinction is that starting with the Switch, handheld gaming has been a different experience. Sure, you could play Super Mario World on you Game Boy Advance on the go, but that was a decade after the game had been released. Now, you get the modern Mario game on your handheld, and it is the exact same game and the exact same time as the console release. It is a large shift in gaming.

  Now, I would argue that this is a step back, as the experience that works best on a a handheld isn’t the best for a home console/PC. That isn’t the point of this article though. The point is that short of some performance loss, the on the go experience is nearly identical to the at home experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Review Thread - (92/100 OpenCritic)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you consider the last one as New Super Mario Bros U, then sure, we are over a decade. However, Mario Maker, and especially Mario Maker 2, are so wonderful and repayable, that I feel no need for a new 2D Mario game. I get that a game like Wonder is going to have “curated” levels, and things can work more cleanly, but the volume of quality levels in the Mario Maker series is enormous. Anyway, I just find it odd to see your comment, which seems to ignore these titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Blog: New Look for PS5 console this holiday season⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I first, I thought this was consolidating the line to a single SKU, and letting you add the drive yourself for a small premium. Instead, this looks like this is a new model with a reworking interior to save a bit on cost, and heat/power.

  The one good thing, is that now every PS5 is a “Physical Edition.” It is also way more likely in the decades to come you can get a 3rd party drive, and hack it to work. Without the size or soldiering being an issue, it is more likely we can see 3rd party replacements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[META] What is the final verdict and current status of game/post-game thread bot runtimes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The college football group has been doing one game thread, for watching and post game discussion. Especially in the regular season, I think this is the right call. Monday night games that aren’t on national TV are going to get low to no engagement anyway. Splitting that discussion up to 2 threads will fracture the small discussion.

  For the playoffs, I could see us wanting to split it up to game and post-game threads.

  I would say I don’t like the idea of doing game threads as chat only on other services. I want more in-depth discussion, and making us go to a real time chat system will make any real effort drowned out by the low quality chats of “Wow” or “That’s Traveling.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Woj] BREAKING: The Portland Trail Blazers are trading guard Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks, sources tell ESPN.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Suns fan here, and I don’t get this trade at all. The main reason is, Ayton’s stock has taken a huge dip in the last few months. Rather than give up and cash out, we should have held out if there wasn’t a good deal. Ben Simmons was an negative asset, and by waiting 6 months, Philadelphia got James Harden back by waiting. There is zero reason to give up.

  Second off: this doesn’t help the team. The biggest weakness the team has is that it is very reliant on 3 star wings that have an injury history. Ayton isn’t the healthiest, but is 4 years younger than Nurkic, and has played more in general. If we had solid backups, that my be fine, but the team is very weak at the big positions. And it isn’t like Grayson Allen is some HUGE pickup that to overcome the weaknesses we take on with downgrading at center. The team seems objectively worse.

  Third off: I have had one championship in my lifetime (Diamondbacks in 2001). That team was a bit of a unique situation because they were an expansion team that got all the right pieces early, but I still loved the big players. Johnson, Schilling, and Gonzales all joined the team at 30 or layer, and stayed 4-7 more years with the team. They felt like they wanted to be in Phoenix, and be on that team. The community loved them, and they loved them back.

  This current Suns team is 15 months away from a 64 win season, and the only players who saw any consistent play time still on the team are Devin Booker and Bismack Biyombo. The rest of the team are guns for hire. They will do their job, but move on to the next place in a few years. Even if the Phoenix Suns organization wins the championship, it won’t be won by a team that I watched struggle to get there.

  I really thought that Booker, Johnson, Bridges and Ayton was a solid core that would put the Suns near the top of the league for a decade. It is so sad to all of it gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Princess Peach: Showtime! | Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how to feel. The game seems like a Paper Mario Game, but you do a transformation and play a minigame instead of battles. Unless the minigames get way more complex, I don’t really see the appeal.

  To be fair, maybe the appeal is just getting to see Peach in new outfits. I love that detective and chef outfit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Super Mario RPG | Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am surprised this is coming out so close to TTYD, but more surprised they announced TTYD this far out. I might have considered grabbing RPG, but now I’m just going to wait for TTYD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F-ZERO 99 - Nintendo Switch Online | Nintendo Direct 9.14.2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that is highly wishful thinking. I’m sure Nintendo has been going through the whole back catalog to find ways to make a battle royale of a game. Once someone saw the risk/reward that F-zero had with boosting depleting your life energy, it becomes a big an instant click. Plus, the racing environment allows all 99 players to interact in a way that none of the other games allowed (the other games were merely sending garbage to the other player.). F-Zero 99 is a good concept for the developers of the 99 games to try and apply. It wasn’t designed as a test to see if the community actually cared about the franchise.

  Miyamoto has said that the reason we haven’t seen F-Zero again is that the developers haven’t found a way to differentiate the series in a way that will attract players. Although I feel like any of us could come up with a way (HD, Online play, randomized equipment drops,), Nintendo is convinced that these are not strong enough to justify the development cost.