Wooster

Wooster, 5 months ago

Wasn’t he the guy who screamed at you if you set funding at like 95%?

Wooster, 4 months ago

… I really dislike how headlines are designed, not to inform, but even to the opposite in the name of drawing clicks. I realize this isn’t on you, but more the AP, but still.

TL;DR The warning light FONT is too small.

Wooster, 5 months ago

On top of the revelation everyone else is having about this comic, I’m noting that Vera is, ostensibly, a chick.

Gotta appreciate the layers.

Wooster, 5 months ago

I hope he’s working on Kid Icarus or even another new project. The man has earned a prolonged vacation from Smash Bros.

Wooster, 4 months ago

Mmm. Malicious compliance.

Honestly, it’s pretty ingenious. If they can get their publishers to help push for appeal, then it’ll be worth it in the long run.

Wooster, 4 months ago

Vaguely reminds me of “The Batman” Batmobile.

Also, why is the lighting poor in every shot?

Wooster, 4 months ago

I’ve played the original. Graphics and puzzles were outstanding, especially for so early in the GBA’s life.

But I found the music and story to be underwhelming. (Except for the Venus Lighthouse theme, that was quite the banger)

Is the second game better in those regards?

Wooster, 4 months ago

But car buyers’ preferences have also shifted dramatically to larger trucks and SUVs in the past 10 years or so, and even more towards high-tech and comfort amenities in the form of cameras, sensors, radars and large infotainment screens," he said.

You can’t buy a smaller truck because the manufacturers lobbied that large trucks are exempt from stricter emissions and thus they don’t have to engineer a smaller, more efficient truck.

Wooster, 4 months ago

Does cruel and unusual punishment apply here?

My limited understanding of the topic is that ‘cruel but usual’ and ‘unusual but not cruel’ can invalidate the charge. And unfortunately, the mistreatment of the homeless could be seen as usual.

Wooster, 4 months ago

I had a difficult time figuring out how to read the post on the website. Clicking the link itself just gave me an errror. I had to discover what that innocuous “+” was for to expand and read.

I recommend editing this post’s title to include the TL;DR.

Wooster, 5 months ago

Hydroelectric production has dropped by about six percent since last year, causing it to slip from 6.1 percent to 5.8 percent of the total production. Depending on the next couple of months, that may allow solar to pass hydro on the list of renewables.

That’s a little disappointing. Hydro seems to always be forgotten amongst renewable sources. Granted, it’s the most location specific of the renewables, but still.

Wooster, 5 months ago

I mean, it is Larson. Being baffling is kinda his thing, unintentionally anachronistic or not.

That said, so long as Dr. Who is still a thing, folks should maintain a (distorted) understanding. Sort of like those 3D printed save icons.

Wooster, 5 months ago

Chickens are semi-cannibalistic, and if their eggs are broken, they will eat them.

Or at least I assume this bit of trivia is what Larson is after. Sometimes we think he’s playing 4D chess when he’s a few X’s short of a tic-tac-toe. (And the reverse as well)

Wooster, 4 months ago

Normally I’d agree with you, but Another Code: R interprets the Hotel Dusk/Last Window split screen gimmick quite well, and they used it in the Switch game as well.

Wooster, 4 months ago

My gosh, I’ve loved this series since it was known as Trace Memory on the DS, and I modded my Wii explicitly so I could play the EU exclusive sequel.

So far, I’ve played to the opening bits of R.

Calling this game a remake, honestly, it doesn’t do it any justice.

The first game has been remade from the ground up.

As in, the mansion that is the game’s setting has been entirely redone with a new layout. It feels more like an actual mansion now, as opposed to something akin to an RPG dungeon where you keep exploring deeper and deeper.

The puzzles have also been redone from scratch. Honestly, this was probably very necessary as CiNG liked to incorporate hardware features into their puzzles. In the DS there was one puzzle where you had to look at the reflection on one screen onto the other… obviously that’s impossible on the Switch.

Actually, on that note, I didn’t recognize hardly any puzzles from the original game.

TBH… the Trace Memory bits feel like an entirely different game, that only used the same characters and, broadly, the same plot.

This is not a complaint, (well, aside from not being able to use the DS hardware creatively this time around), It’s very much a more polished experience this time around.

Wooster, 4 months ago

TBH, I’m surprised they’re remade this game (Games?) for a couple of reasons.

• My understanding is that Hotel Dusk is much more popular series, and Lost Window flunked because no one knew it was a Hotel Dusk sequel. Those games need the Recollections treatment.
• Another Code: R was supposed to lead to a sequel starring the game’s deuteragonist, Matthew Crusoe. I feel like it would make more sense to make the third game in the saga than to remake the first two.

(But that said, there were significant changes in the first game on Switch—mostly to resolve retcons made in R—so maybe they added more to Matthew’s story in R’s remake? I haven’t gotten that far yet)

Wooster, 4 months ago

Hmm… The games are indeed wildly different, and there are some subtle story changes (mostly to fix retcons with R, but D gets a little more to do).

But regardless of if you think playing the same story on both hardware is worth it, the Switch game has ‘Another Code: R’ bundled in, which makes it a MUCH fuller experience than the DS title.

(That said, I do think all of CiNG’s DS games (Hotel Dusk, Last Window, Again: Eye of Providence, and Trace Memory) are all worth playing at least once to experience the unprecedented creativity in puzzle design. Though I will admit that Again took a couple of chapters before it grew on me.)

Wooster, 5 months ago

Feels like something I’d read about in WWII.

Wooster, 5 months ago

The narrative problem with the kids arriving in Federation territory in a stolen ship was that the Protostar would be impounded and the kids would be sent packing.

They needed a narrative reason to give the kids a chance to command the Protostar and have their own adventures, which means dragging out returning it to Starfleet. But rather than resorting to stalling tactics, they opted to have the kids fight to keep it out of their hands, and for good reason.

With Picard and Discovery, I felt more like that trope was used because the writers had no better ideas on how to keep the stakes high.

With Prodigy, I felt that the stakes were made essential to its premise.

Wooster, 5 months ago

I hate it when the captions are cut off.

Wooster, 4 months ago

What defenses does Lemmy have?

Wooster, 4 months ago

How would it be split? Unless Trump is successfully removed from the ballot, Trump is the only candidate that republican voters actually want.

Wooster, 4 months ago

Teddy Roosevelt?

Wooster, 5 months ago

Damn! It’s Aaron Waltke himself! Will do my part good sir! 🫡

Wooster, 4 months ago

We probably get our best look at penal rehabilitation in Lower Decks’ “A Few Badgeys More”

We learn that Daystrom Institute has a facility dedicated to evil robots, but through therapy, and exploration of art, sports, and other hobbies and psych-evaluations they may earn parole, and from there re-enter society.

Peanut Hamper made it to parole, initially as a ruse, but actually ended up taking it seriously.

Agimus is lagging behind her, but also shows signs of sincere reform.

Honestly, while a lot of it was played for laughs, I really appreciated how it really was Star Trek’s optimism at its peak. People can be reformed, and are not sentenced to life in a cubical if they are capable of earning it.