When that’s the other option, I’d definitely stick with Caleb.

The only annoyance I had with the stages in SA2 was that it felt like the Dark story had too many Eggman stages and not enough Shadow stages, or at least the Eggman stages were too long and the Shadow stages were too short, where the Hero story felt more balanced.

As with many things, such as the dreaded Tiger electronic games in the ‘90s, it will likely be popular among parents as a safer alternative to smartphones for kids’ communication, but the kids themselves will hate it and long to own an actual smartphone. Not that I’m saying it’s a bad idea in general since it has the advantages of being safer and encouraging less screentime, but it’s probably destined to fail out the gate.

Everybody knows the new console is coming and some are saying it’s already being manufactured. They could just announce it already. The Switch is a great console, but it’s no secret it’s basically at EOL and after 7 years on the market it’s sold about as many new units as it’s going to.

I just started it myself as my “spooky” game to play on Halloween. Even though I played the remakes of the other two, I especially got Ace Attorney vibes off the beginning of this one. I do enjoy the Famicom Detective Club games, but they have that really annoying quirk of needing to select the same option over and over, sometimes consecutively, to get through a whole dialogue.

As a Minnesota sports fan who’s seen more BS calls than necessary screw our teams, and especially after the Lynx got so blatantly screwed by officials last weekend in favor of yet another big-market team, it’s hard not to believe at least some officiating inconsistency is league-ordered in many leagues to benefit markets they want to grow or don’t want to piss off.

Armarouge is the last non-legendary/paradox I need to finish the Paldea dex. Hopefully I can get a team around me that’s actually strong enough to beat it in a raid one of these times.

Heck, any new Shinobi game would be cool, whether brand new or old one remastered. I don’t really recall Sega doing much with Shinobi in 3D, and it’s been a long time since the ones on the GameCube/PS2 generation came out (which are the last ones I can think of). Heck, the latest Ninja Gaiden was 10 years ago or more. Either of those franchises could really use another entry. Ninja Gaiden would also be another good ninja-based franchise for a movie.

Impressive. They actually managed to make a product that makes AAA Clock on the Switch eShop look like a good deal.

Seriously though, cut the price in half and I’d MAYBE consider this as something of a Nintendo related novelty/“luxury” if I had the cash to burn. You can’t ever convince me (or most people) to pay $100 for a friggin’ alarm clock though.

I’d also put a lot of that on KOC not being able to properly adjust a game plan that likely relied heavily on Jones once he went down. I’d bet it left Darnold needing to improvise a lot with more pressure coming at him and more coverage on the receivers from the Jets knowing he was going to be passing more, leading to a lot of mistakes on forced passes to Jefferson.

I’ve already played a fan translation of Investigations 2, but I’ll probably pick it up when I buy Emio the Smiling Man, if only to play the actual official translation and see how it was intended by Capcom.

Seems to be another Baker Mayfield/Sam Darnold situation where he may not have been the real problem with his lack of success in Chicago, and/or just needed a different team structure or coaching situation to meet his real potential. QBs rarely really thrive in Chicago partly because the Bears are rarely built like a team focused on QBs in general. As long as I’ve watched them, the Bears’ identity has been a strong defense and running the ball on offense, the passing game is an afterthought. Watching Caleb getting thrown out there in that environment is watching the Bears try to fit a square peg in a round hole, same as it was when they had Fields. They made at least something of an effort this time by also drafting his WR teammate, but that’s not likely to be enough on its own for Caleb to shine there. He needs more help, and only time will tell if Chicago will provide it for him, but it will likely mean an entire change in team philosophy to do so.

Now that I’m getting into retro gaming as an actual hobby I want to try the originals if I can, but these will still probably be quite good.

That said, they still mess with the versions of sites I get. If I choose a US server, I want to know I’m going to get the US version of a site.

Total Agree on the Jets. You mess up with that many rookie QBs, it’s likely not poor drafting that’s to blame, you definitely look at the coaching situation. Take the guy who is starting for my Vikings as an example: Sam Darnold. He failed with the Jets and Panthers, had some good signs of improvement under Shanahan with San Fran but was still backup to Purdy because Purdy is just good, and now (granted only 2-game sample size so far) may be having his comeback moment ala Mayfield last year with Minnesota under KOC, a former quarterbacks coach, who also was able to get a few solid games out of Josh Dobbs with little to no prep time and was himself planning on not throwing JJ McCarthy to the wolves right away. A coach who knows how to handle the QB position can make a world of difference to new QBs coming into the league and supposed “bust” QBs who weren’t handled well early but may still have potential.

Ah, yes, the infamous “Capcom Test”, as a YouTuber I watch calls it. There are thoughts of making a sequel in a franchise, so Capcom re-releases an old game (or in this case, collection) to gauge interest, not thinking about the fact that people may already have other versions of the game and don’t need this one, then they cancel the sequel before it even gets off the ground if the re-release of the old game doesn’t sell enough, which to Capcom is often a stupidly high number. This already killed a Darkstalkers revival, we can only hope it doesn’t do the same for MvC.

Packers just know they put themselves in the exact same situation as in the Favre and Rodgers eras: they rely on an elite starting QB to band-aid the rest of the problems on an otherwise mediocre team. Without their elite starting QB, they’re absolutely cooked, they have little else. Publications keep overrating GB every year because they’re absolutely obsessed with QB play and Favre and Rodgers were good enough for the “we only care about our QB” strategy to work. We really have yet to see if Love will be at the same level overall, but all the sports media is buying into GB’s assertion that he is. Either way, they don’t jave much of a strategy otherwise, so for GB’s sake he had better be elite.

The newest updates for LibreWolf just implemented stricter/more secure DNS settings by default. You may want to check those to see if that’s the issue.

I dunno, the N64 had just as long a lifespan as the other consoles at the time. That said, the Game Boy was still selling like crazy (one word: Pokemon), especially with the Pocket and Color out in the N64 era, and the Game Gear was already effectively dead by then. I don’t know what Nintendo would’ve been so afraid of there.

I have noticed a similar icon issue, where instead of the question mark the lock to show a secure/VPN network just does not appear sometimes. I check and see that apparently I am connected to the VPN, but for my own peace of mind I end up reconnecting over and over again, sometimes switching servers up, just to make the icon appear correctly.