Supposedly S2 carts only come in 64GB, no smaller, and that’s allegedly the reason why smaller games don’t want to eat the full manufacturing cost of that compared to a much cheaper GKC.

Yet. They’ll let Sony take the heat for going first, but we know this is what all three console manufacturers want sooner or later.

It’s obvious that Game Key Cards are a step towards a gradual phase-out. Cartridges are a lot more expensive to manufacture than disks, and probably getting worse due to datacenters driving up the price of flash memory. It’s not a question of if they’ll ditch cartridges, but when.

I expect we’ll continue to see carts for the remainder of the Switch 2’s lifespan, but we may see a point at which they only do GKCs for late gen titles. And then after that, the Switch 3 will be all digital.

Would they actually lose those customers though? I prefer to buy physical whenever possible, but I still buy games that are only available digitally, or sometimes games that I just can’t get the physical copy of at a reasonable price. Sony’s banking on the expectation that people aren’t just going to stop buying games altogether in an all-digital future, they’ll buy digital once they no longer have a choice.

Decompliation projects are cool when they’re used to extend functionality beyond what could be done in the original game and romhacks. It’s awesome to see Super Mario 64 with uncapped framerate and a modern camera.

But a lot of these projects kinda seem like they’re not adding anything that can’t already be emulated. I suppose just having a decompilation is step one that can enable future enhancements, but it seems like recently there are far more of these being slopped out than there are modders interested in doing anything with them.

The fact that a lot of them are just slop now is kind of the problem.

J.K. Rowling is alive and doing active harm with the money she makes. And if you financially support her, whether directly or indirectly, you are helping her do harm.

Lovecraft is dead, meaning he can’t hurt anyone. Rowling actively uses the money she makes off the franchise to hurt people, and even the most indirect forms of advertisement for her IP ultimately help her profit and then use those profits to do harm.

Isn’t that exactly what OP said?

Isn’t that exactly what OP said?

Sudokuvania 2: Lineage of Logic - Finally finished after a solid two weeks of sleepless nights chipping away at this. Game of the Year 2026.

Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising - I’m reminded of why proximity normals are one of my least favorite fighting game mechanics. Hard to confirm off 5M when I don’t know which 5M I’m getting and oops there’s no far 5MM.

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 3 - Translation patch is finally out! I’ve literally been waiting two decades for this one, I own a physical copy that I picked up as a souvenir from a trip to Japan back when I was in high school. Ripped my old save off the cartridge to NG+ off of.

Keroro RPG: Kishi to Musha to Densetsu no Kaizoku - The handful of JP GBA games I own physical copies of are a bit above my reading level, I struggle with the pixel kanji fonts, and I’m too attached to them to be able to play them without being able to 100% comprehend them - I want to revisit them eventually, but I’m looking for some easier alternatives closer to my level right now. So sampling a bunch of DS ROMs, this turned out to be the perfect study material. Full furigana, and I’m more okay with skipping over parts that go over my head, as long as I can get a rough idea of what’s happening and where to go. I’ve never seen Keroro so I’m really just playing this for the fact that it’s a Tales game rather than for the story.

Mahjong Soul/Riichi City - mahjong causes great damage to the human spirit without a single benefit

Fred Flintstone?

They basically told us that if we don’t reopen they’ll simply remove us as moderators of the sub and reopen it themselves.

I moderated a large sub that participated in the blackout. Our mod team was threatened by the admins into reopening, and that’s when I knew I was done with the platform.

Why would you do that? What did you think would happen?

Outside of hearing brand new slang for the first time, t’s pretty rare for me to come across an English word I don’t already know. But if I were to read a dictionary cover-to-cover I would certainly find some. But those would be extremely rare and esoteric words, if I don’t know them it’s because I’ve never seen anyone use them.

People don’t learn their native language by memorizing a dictionary. They learn it from being immersed in it their whole lives. When hearing a unknown word for the first time, if you understood every other word in the sentence then nine times out of ten you’ll be able to infer the missing word from context.

Maybe sometimes you occasionally come across a rare word that’s not obvious from context, but the longer you’ve been using a language the rarer this is - you get better at picking things up from context and it gets rarer how often you even encounter unknown words to begin with.

There will always be words out there you’ve never heard, but if they’re rare enough for you to have never encountered them when using your native language your whole life, they might be rare enough for you to never encounter them in the future - unless you just read a dictionary to find them.

To be fair, English spelling already is pretty damn disconnected from pronunciation.

Also to be fair, two of those writing systems are entirely phonetic, and aren’t that much bigger than our alphabet. It’s really only Kanji that’s the hard one.

Porter Robinson and Madeon - Shelter

I think that’s just Neon Genesis Evangelion.

I’m not sure what you mean, but quite a lot of channels write a script first rather than ad-libbing. Not always, obviously if it’s something that was recorded or streamed live there won’t be a script, but you seem to be suggesting that scripted content is some ultra rare anomaly.

If you already script your videos, you can just upload the script. From there Youtube will automatically sync it to the video.

Crunch got steadily worse and worse, until I just couldn’t take it anymore.