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General Gaming / Re: What are you playing?

« Last post by Alistair on Today at 04:11:27 AM »

I put Super Metroid on hold.

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Movies & TV / Khushrenada's Annual Oscar Thread. 2026 Edition.

« Last post by Khushrenada on March 15, 2026, 07:23:55 PM »

Quick list of my predictions while they're still legit.

Short Film Animated - Butterfly
Short Film Live Action - Two People Exchanging Saliva
Short Film Documentary - All The Empty Rooms
Best Casting - Sinners
Best Sound - F1
Film Editing - One Battle After Another
Visual Effects - Avatar: Fire and Ash
Makeup and Hairstyling - Frankenstein
Costume Design - Frankenstein
Production Design - Frankenstein
Cinematography - One Battle After Another
Original Score - One Battle After Another
Original Song - Golden from KPop
Animated Feature - KPop Demon Hunters
Documentary Feature - Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Foreign-Language Film - Sentimental Value
Adapted Screenplay - One Battle After Another
Original Screenplay - Sinners
Supporting Actor - Sean Penn
Supporting Actress - Amy Madigan
Best Actor - Micheal B. Jordan
Best Actress - Jessie Buckley
Best Director - Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Picture - One Battle After Another

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General Gaming / Re: I for one welcome the glorious return of overconfident E3 2006 Sony.

« Last post by Stratos on March 15, 2026, 06:51:40 PM »

Really the Switch 2 seems to be a proper realization of the things Nintendo was warning about and aiming for back in 2005. Gaming is hitting a "peak" in graphical fidelity and each new advancement is generally minimal and giving even more diminished efforts for the efforts.

So they dove into innovations with Wii, taking a hit in the graphics. Now they are able to pair a fully realized innovation with comparable graphics to the other consoles, and they have marketed it very well to sell. This coupled with Nintendo exclusives and the lead other consoles have offered becomes non-existent.

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TalkBack / Re: Super Bomberman Collection (Switch) Review

« Last post by Stratos on March 15, 2026, 12:27:34 PM »

Bomberman got a LOT of play on the Wii back in my college dorm room with friends coming over (I think technically it was Bomberman '93 for the TurboGrafx-16), so it's great to see that the franchise and its gameplay is alive and well even these many years later.

Did you try the Wiiware one? It let you play up to at least 8 players locally on the same system thanks to the Gamecube ports. Was a blast when we got a lot of folks together at once.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Pokopia Sells 2.2 Million Copies In Opening Weekend, 1 Million In Japan Alone

« Last post by Adrock on March 14, 2026, 03:57:24 PM »

The discourse around Game Key Cards is so profoundly silly. At some point, people have to stop hiding behind ignorance (i.e. “[not] fully paying attention” or “kids who don’t know better”), and start doing the bare minimum to understand something.

This isn’t hidden among pages of legalese; it’s on the front of the box.



How much handholding does someone need before they take literally any responsibility for their actions? If they can’t be bothered to read one sentence, that’s on them.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Pokopia Sells 2.2 Million Copies In Opening Weekend, 1 Million In Japan Alone

« Last post by Ian Sane on March 13, 2026, 05:50:38 PM »

I'm going to guess that very few people who are actually aware of what a Game Key Card is wants them.  Buying the game digitally outright where you can literally get it within minutes of buying it, can bring it travelling with you without bringing a bunch of cards, can swap games without having to open the card slot and possibly take the Switch 2 out of the dock, and not have a physical package that actually contains nothing eating up space in your house all seems vastly more convenient.  I imagine the "well I can resell it" crowd is pretty small.  I figure most people have bought these things without fully paying attention to what they're getting and might not even have noticed its not the real deal if the first time they loaded it they were connected to the internet.

After Nintendo said they wouldn't release Game Key Cards for their own published titles they backed out on that and then picked a Pokemon game to be their first title.  That is pretty shrewd.  Pokemon is an ideal title for this because its target audience is kids who don't know better and relatives of kids that probably have no idea that the Switch 2 games on the store shelf actually have multiple variations of Game Key Cards, full physical games and Switch 1 games that update to Switch 2 games.

The game itself is a follow up to Dragon Quest Builders, which is awesome, so I don't doubt for a second that Pokopia is as good as the reviews suggest.  If I had a Switch 2 I would probably get it... as a download from the eShop.

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TalkBack / Re: The Donkey Kong Family Tree Explained

« Last post by caffeine on March 13, 2026, 03:32:36 PM »

I think the fossils are more Easter Eggs than anything to be taken too seriously. There's a fossil of Arcade DK somewhere and Cranky Kong is still alive.

Well, yeah, that's what I was referring to. (I was trying to avoid the spoiler, but oh well) The inclusion creates a sort of contradictory headache in the timeline, since Arcade DK can't be both a long dead litteral fossil and a living character that is only figuratively a "fossil".

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TalkBack / Re: The Donkey Kong Family Tree Explained

« Last post by Neon_Raven on March 13, 2026, 06:23:09 AM »

This is the content I’m here for.
Great job with a red string and cork board Justin.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Pokopia Sells 2.2 Million Copies In Opening Weekend, 1 Million In Japan Alone

« Last post by broodwars on March 11, 2026, 09:04:35 PM »

But I thought nobody wanted the game key cards.

Nobody with taste wants game key cards. 

Hey, if Pokemon fans want to hasten the death of actual game ownership, that's on them. Just don't come crying to the rest of us once stuff gets de-listed and services shut down.

As for the news itself, from all accounts this is the rare actual good Pokemon game these days, since it was made by someone other than Game Freak. We should always champion when a good game sells well. Doesn't interest me in the slightest, but good on them.

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TalkBack / Re: Pokemon Pokopia Sells 2.2 Million Copies In Opening Weekend, 1 Million In Japan Alone

« Last post by pokepal148 on March 11, 2026, 08:48:58 PM »

But I thought nobody wanted the game key cards.