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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 962: Flat Earther: Y/N?

« Last post by Evan_B on Today at 10:57:31 AM »

The Tokyo Scramble segment was *chef’s kiss*. My interest in the game would have been higher if they had gone with that music in the Direct.

As someone who was listening and not watching the Stream, I was a bit surprised to see the Kyoto Xanadu dungeon exploration- I suppose it differentiates it more from the other Falcom series, but I find the 2D Metroidvania decision surprising.

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NWR Forums ID Verification / Re: My posting times

« Last post by Evan_B on Today at 10:54:22 AM »

I can’t remember if I ever got **** like this about my posts, which were pretty hostile and inflammatory back in the day. But, I probably can’t remember because I was too drunk at the time where such critique would have been beneficial.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« Last post by Evan_B on February 10, 2026, 09:12:17 PM »

I guess I'm gonna be that loser and talk about Fallout.

So Season 2 was kind of a mess. Plot and pacing-wise it just felt sort of all over the place, from Lucy's "I'm addicted to drugs!" episode to "let's have an episode where the Ghoul is impaled on a lamp post." There was plenty of weird b-plots, also, what with Norm's odd expedition that felt like it went nowhere, to that witch doctor getting reintroduced just to have his brain wiped by Hank, and the show's insistence to keep its dual-plotline structure when half the flashbacks felt like an excuse to pad the paychecks for Goggins and Theroux, who is charming but speaks in vapid absolutes.

Whereas Season 1 felt like this wildly fresh and brisk introduction to this world, so much of this season felt like "here's where we introduce one thing so that it can be relevant later in this season (or more insultingly, this episode)." and it just made me realize how much I adored YELLOWJACKETS SEASONS 1-2 and less so season 3, BABY.

I spent a snowed-in weekend catching up on that series, and I quite enjoyed it, mostly because it does a very good job of projecting horror and supernatural spookiness but really just being about people doing terrible and redemptive things. The show really is about the horrific nature of perspective, as even the opening sequence from the pilot is completely (albeit somewhat sloppily) recontextualized by the end of the third season. The first and second season are much more tightly plotted, though the show starts to go off the rails by the end of the second season and through much of the third season, which feels much more meandering and ambiguous. If anything, it makes me want to watch more horror television- not like, overly serialized stuff like American Horror Story, tightly plotted stuff like Midnight Mass. I've already watched quite a bit of the Flanaverse, but I would be curious to explore more.

Yellowjackets has also made me pine for The X-Files. I think I might try to watch more of that.

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TalkBack / Re: Super Bomberman Collection (Switch) Review

« Last post by Mop it up on February 10, 2026, 11:44:18 AM »

Kept wondering (and hoping) that Super Bomberman 2 might show up on the SNES Online app with 4-player online multiplayer one day.

The NSO SNES app does not support more than 2 players, so it's probably better that these games released in a collection instead.

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General Gaming / Re: Community Event: Forum February 2026

« Last post by Evan_B on February 10, 2026, 09:08:51 AM »

Hey, I’m still here! I’ve been plotting a thread for a bit that I think will generate some replies. I’ve also been a bit busy, which is the reason I sloped off during the weekend.

Can I get an Evan_Bee_2?

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General Gaming / Re: Community Event: Forum February 2026

« Last post by Khushrenada 2 on February 10, 2026, 02:31:52 AM »

RIP to everyone who moved on to hopefully greener pastures/forums.

Unfortunately, a certain someone who has already been replaced with a new and improved version refuses to take a hint and move on as well.

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TalkBack / Re: Super Bomberman Collection (Switch) Review

« Last post by Khushrenada on February 10, 2026, 02:23:31 AM »

This was a big surprise in the Partner Direct. Kept wondering (and hoping) that Super Bomberman 2 might show up on the SNES Online app with 4-player online multiplayer one day. Just didn't think Konami would care about an old SNES Bomberman game. To see them release all these SNES Bomberman games in a special collection like this was so unexpected.

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NWR Forums ID Verification / Re: The DM I got on discord.

« Last post by Khushrenada on February 10, 2026, 02:17:52 AM »

Hey! With the new Discord change of requiring Face ID maybe you'll find out who it was that sent you that DM. I've got a feeling it was probably Mop it up all along.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« Last post by NWR_insanolord on February 10, 2026, 01:39:16 AM »

I haven't started Strange New Worlds yet. Lots of people rave about it but I have such a backlog of shows I haven't finished yet. It's funny, I don't like to watch things I haven't seen before without paying full attention, which has a tendency to make me spend more time rewatching things I'm already familiar with that I'm more comfortable watching while I do other things.

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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen

« Last post by broodwars on February 10, 2026, 01:38:42 AM »

I just can't see viewers introduced to Trek by watching Brave New Worlds deciding to follow along with what happens to Kirk and Spock in the 60s series after. It hit me while watching the show that they should just reboot the original series. Sure, there'd be some fans in an uproar about throwing out the original series canon and replacing it with a new one but reboots and revamps happen all the time nowadays. Plus, I feel it would mainly just be more of the much older fans who care that much about the older series and thus a shrinking base. I think there would be more Trek fans open to it than against it but maybe I'm wrong. With the Trek movie series reportedly dead because it would cost too much for the actors and effects based on expected box office returns, it seems like the door is open to not have two competing visions of the original era and to redo so that it could be a bit more inline with the Trek rules and regulations we think of nowadays from the TNG - present era.

Eh, I watched TOS in its entirety for the first time not too long ago via the BluRay remasters. Yeah, I'd seen the odd one-off episode on TV back in the day, but this was my first time doing a dedicated watch. The remaster with all the redone effects does an excellent job of making the show more watchable, and that's pretty much the version anyone remotely curious about the show these days is going to find.