▲ 17 r/casualnintendo
I guess I've probably played too many games because my first thought upon seeing this was: Should I plant a seed or do a ground pound?
u/elephvant — 12 hours ago
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▲ 164 r/NintendoSwitch2
Muscle memory's a hell of a thing
I hadn't played F-Zero GX in literally 20 years and, honestly, I was struggling a bit getting the feel for it again.
However, approaching this 180 degree turn, with absolutely zero volition on my part (I don't think I'd even consciously remembered that spin turns were a thing), I literally felt my finger physically twitch for the spin button even before my eyes or brain fully knew what was going on.
Two decades.
Kind of a weird feeling, but I did play the shit out this game on GC.
Also, obligatory 'give us a new one, Nintendo!'
(No, seriously, give us a new one.)
u/elephvant — 24 hours ago
(For context, when asked who he'd like to see win the title, Sarwar said 'since I'm a Glasgow boy, I always want one of the Glasgow teams to win it'.)
I know some people will say it's stupid to allow a comment about football to sway you regarding politics, but I don't really see it as being about football. It's what that comment reveals about the man (or complete absence of a man) who made it.
I do not care which team a politician supports. I'm a Rangers fan and if Sarwar had said Celtic, no problem whatsoever. I also wouldn't care if he said I'm not really into football so I don't care.
But trying to sit on the fence when it comes to the Old Firm is just such a pathetic, soulless, inhuman thing to do that suggests someone with no backbone or principles, and I don't want someone like that in charge of anything. It also shows how wildly out of touch he must be with the regular people of Glasgow and even Scotland to think that would be a good answer, to imagine he'd cleverly got out of things by hedging his bets. (As I saw someone else say it's not just a case even in Edinburgh people know you don't play both sides with the Old Firm, they know it in Buenos Aires.)
(Also, by the way, I'm not some diehard Labour supporter who's turned his back on the party over this. I was kind of humming and hawing over one of my votes and this was just a kind of final push in the direction of not voting for this guy.)
Edit: Given that today is the day we go to the polls, it's slightly scary how many people think this post is about football (it's 'about football' to the same extent that Sunak claiming he'd had a deprived childhood because he wasn't allowed Sky was 'about TV'). And what's even scarier is how many of those people believe they're super intelligent when the reality is they can't even properly understand a relatively short Reddit post.
u/BirdNonce — 7 days ago
▲ 18 r/memrise
On the website, every single time I finish a 'learn words' session and then click 'continue', it pushes this practice with AI option.
If it seemed like it was just doing it now and then to throw in a bit of variety, I wouldn't mind, but if you don't do it, it will never suggest anything else. I know it's just a couple of clicks to get back to the 'learn words' option, but it is literally every single time and if you do more than a couple of sessions it's really annoying - I would actually say more annoying than the ads even.
u/elephvant — 8 days ago
▲ 410 r/NintendoSwitch2
(Early game screenshot to avoid spoilers.)
I'm not going to say this is a masterpiece or anything (not least because I haven't finished it), but basically this is a game just almost perfectly tailored to me.
The overall setting / aesthetic as well as the individual environments, the visuals, the overall linear but with exploration for secrets/bonuses stage design, the hub with lots to do and upgrade but nothing overly complex or distracting, the half strategic, half twitchy combat, even the semi-serious but also goofy story and writing are all just exactly what I want from a single-player video game (which is basically to be a Gamecube game in prettier clothing).
It's also the first game since Bananza that's met what to me is the clearest sign a game is something special: Namely, a desire to almost 'ration' my playtime because I don't want to finish it too quickly.
Looks and plays great on Switch 2 as well. If you like classic single-player action adventure games, I can't recommend this highly enough.
u/elephvant — 9 days ago
In the 80s/90s, an entire family sitting in the living room watching TV (instead of chatting) was seen as a sign of social decay. Today, an entire family sitting in the living room watching TV together (instead of each lost in their own screen) is seen as a sign of social bonding.
reddit.comu/elephvant — 19 days ago