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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 974: When I Was Getting Scraped for Horace Showpony, I Wasn't Getting Paid

« Last post by Evan_B on Yesterday at 10:48:11 AM »

I think the point stands. Min-maxing Pokemon requires hurdles that most games pre-Gen 9 make difficult to achieve until late-to-post-game, so I don’t know why you’d attempt it. I also don’t know what sort of comprehensive strategy an LLM would give for any game in particular and I don’t care to give any of them the time of day to find out.

Then again, I’m posting on a dead forum in order to magnify my voice and sense of self-importance via the relative emptiness of the echo chamber, so maybe I don’t have any right to talk about the poisons of the internet.

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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 974: When I Was Getting Scraped for Horace Showpony, I Wasn't Getting Paid

« Last post by Soren on Yesterday at 10:23:24 AM »

Damn, what a **** email segment this week. Y'all might as well not read GX's email at all.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Star Fox Reboot In Emergency Star Fox Direct

« Last post by Evan_B on May 08, 2026, 05:26:33 PM »

it sucks to be so down about this, because as Adrock put it, really, everything sucks now. I’m also not really invested enough into Starfox to really have skin in this game. But I really have no interest in playing a game that I already bounced off previously on a few different systems, which I guess just means this wasn’t the announcement for me. It just stands as a harbinger of the times, which is a bit sad.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Star Fox Reboot In Emergency Star Fox Direct

« Last post by broodwars on May 08, 2026, 04:18:36 PM »

@Adrock

Editing long posts on a phone is annoying, so I just wanted to address one thing you said, which was about the game being $50 digital.

It's also $50 physical right now from Walmart or Amazon, if you didn't already know. For now, Walmart is matching the eShop and Amazon is matching them. And not only on this game, but Splatoon Raiders and Yoshi as well.

And yes, the industry needs more AA games, and I'm not sure people would be disappointed if this was a *new* Star Fox game at a lower budget and price point. The issue is that this is the 3rd remake for SF 64 and 4 overall when you include the original SNES game.

I'm sure the game will be fun as ever, but...really? We can't even get new levels like remakes of SNES SF stages that didn't make the jump to N64 like the Armada Stage?

Seriously, how are we this many Star Fox games in and the SNES of all things still has one of the wildest SF stages?

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Price Increase Beginning September 1

« Last post by Adrock on May 08, 2026, 12:26:55 PM »

I still haven’t bought another Nintendo Switch 2 game. I’m gladly I got the console when I did.

Nintendo is using some older standards like UFS 3.1 (instead of 4.0) in Nintendo Switch 2 leading to a price hike that is smaller than its contemporaries. I read (but haven’t verified) flash storage was like ~$18 more. Not sure how much more RAM is. A $50 price hike is better than it could be which still feels gross to admit.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Star Fox Reboot In Emergency Star Fox Direct

« Last post by Adrock on May 08, 2026, 12:05:36 PM »

Voice acting is really good so far. And $49.99 digital is pretty rad. A friend already preordered; I probably won’t get this myself.

So this is what the Switch 2 is for?  Spruced up N64 games and framerate updates for Switch 1 games?

While this is on brand, it’s somehow still grossly disingenuous even for you.

You guys don't have new stuff in the works?

As soon as I saw this news, I knew the old band was getting back together to play the greatest hits.

Are y’all not living in the same reality where everything sucks badly? In general but specifically: the economy is in the toilet, countless development studios we grew up with simply don’t exist anymore, AI is fucking up [broadly gestures at everything] etc. etc. All this while Nintendo hasn’t closed studios and laid off a ton of people. Relevantly, it’s also one of the few developers still making A and AA games which even a Star Fox remake is.

The options weren’t a remake or new game. They were a remake or literally nothing. This isn’t the 1990s and 2000s anymore. What would have been a best seller decades ago is a moderate success at best today. We are getting a remake because it’s cheaper/faster to develop and keeps people employed.

The current state of the industry is unsustainable, and Nintendo anticipated this all the way back in 2005. In fact, we need more A and AA releases like this. We need games that don’t completely obliterate a developer if they don’t meet some absurd sales target. If studios keep shutting down, who’s left making games?

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Price Increase Beginning September 1

« Last post by Ian Sane on May 08, 2026, 11:49:56 AM »

I didn't feel the Switch 2 was worth the price before and I'm not going to change my mind simply to avoid a price increase.  I can hold out.  I didn't have a Switch 1 until years into the system's life, content to work through my 3DS backlog.  Now it would be nice if to balance things out they lowered the price of games, which had been the worse part since day one.  Hey, Nintendo, if you wanted to get rid of Game Key Cards that would be nice.  Hmmm?

At this point I'm more worried about my Switch 1 breaking and having to spend more money to replace it than I paid the first time, which has never really been a thing in the history of consumer electronics.  But I'm also worried about my laptop and my phone.  The chip shortage is going to affect everything.

On one hand I am eagerly awaiting the AI bubble bursting but there are also concerns that the economy is so propped up by that right now that that would have a huge negative ripple effect.  Is the choice between expensive electronics and Great Depression Part 2?  Ugh.  And of course in all this is the constant fear that AI is going to take my job so buying a videogame system will be the least of my priorities.

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TalkBack / Re: Takashi Tezuka To Retire From Nintendo Board In June

« Last post by TheYoungerPlumber on May 08, 2026, 11:22:44 AM »

This one really hurts. Mr. Tezuka is a legend, and easily most directly responsible for more of my favorite Nintendo games / game moments than anyone else. Shigeru Miyamoto might be more of the visionary—but Mr. Tezuka did a lot of the design legwork. His retirement is well deserved; he will be missed.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Price Increase Beginning September 1

« Last post by broodwars on May 08, 2026, 08:27:13 AM »

I love living in a world where like 3 people with alot of power, money, and influence, can make incredibly boneheaded decisions that jack up the prices of things like oil and silicon and nobody can or seems to have any interest in having them suffer any kind of consequences for actions that effect billions of people.

I don't think you can blame those people this time, though. This has "the AI gold rush ate all the chips" written all over it. Sony raised the PS5 prices recently for that same reason.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces Switch 2 Price Increase Beginning September 1

« Last post by pokepal148 on May 08, 2026, 07:35:10 AM »

I love living in a world where like 3 people with alot of power, money, and influence, can make incredibly boneheaded decisions that jack up the prices of things like oil and silicon and nobody can or seems to have any interest in having them suffer any kind of consequences for actions that effect billions of people.