I was playing a lot of Final Fantasy VII when it first came out around 1996, and used a paper strategy guide.

I got a one-handed controller (an ASCII Grip that was amazing for old JRPGs. I still miss having it for those kinds of chill games where I don’t feel like I need to be hunching over a controller.

I was always super jealous of this controller but I couldn’t afford it when it first came out!

I love ridiculous controllers.

I happened upon the original for $20 in Wal Mart in 1995 and I’ve been playing it on and off ever since!

One of the best games ever made.

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Well you don’t look a day over 21…

Sounds like they should have called it Underscale

I’ll see myself out

Generalize more! “You guys,” “normal people,” “not enough artists and creatives I guess.” That’ll help when you join a new community.

You’re writing a lot of words. Why don’t you write the service? Be the change you want to see in the world, “creative.” Nope, better lecture me instead.

Oh right, you’re “not an expert,” which means you can just spout off “how come no one has done it?? No artists I bet.” and generalize without thinking. The bold sells that.

Then you just keep typing instead of thinking.

“Why doesn’t someone just duplicate Pinterest’s search? Seems easy.” And then if anyone says something, you say “it figures. You guys are just ___________.”

Are you just here to complain? What entitlement.

I guess it’s just nobody here cares enough about that to bother with it, not enough artists/creatives around I’m presuming, bummer…

This last sentence is wild. People who don’t write software think it’s so easy, why can’t someone just whip it up?

The lack of artists is totally the reason, and not that building up an entire federated service isn’t easy.

The idea that “the lack of creatives” is the reason it hasn’t been made is astonishing. Such arrogance.

If someone is releasing, say, a western XCom clone and expecting Baldur’s Gate 3 level success, they might have another thing coming… Since it would have a niche audience.

Like, obviously I’m not talking about games like Baldur’s Gate 3 here, I assumed that was obvious from context but I may not know what Lamplighter’s League is like!

I was assuming it was more like Hard West, or Wargroove, the Fire Emblem series, Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics… there’s a difference between a specific genre and games that are turn-based and require strategy. Hopefully that makes sense.

Also half of the games you listed are pretty old (10+ years). Yeah, it’s a bit niche. But go off weirdo

There’s also the Mario + Rabbids series which is still pretty niche if you’re asking me.

They were advertising it on the Paradox launcher for a while on Cities Skylines and it seemed like kind of a large risk for Paradox but I don’t exactly know why I felt that way.

It seemed like too much advertising for a turn-based tactics game or something. I like turn-based tactics games but it’s certainty a niche genre.

I love little Etsy sellers like this! We have several puzzle boards made by a kind hobbyist grandfather.

rClone is so awesome! It does so much that I wanted for so long.

Oh the OP repo is based on rClone, I didn’t realize. Even better!

It is!!

Someone might assert that, “All toupees look fake. I’ve never seen a good toupee.” This is an example of neglecting the base rate because if I had seen good toupees, I wouldn’t know it.

Thanks, I love learning names for these things when they come up!

Not only that, but the insistence on seeing everything as zero-sum is fucking ridiculous.

“Well we didn’t even take down a massive corporation with an install base of hundreds of millions!! Hmph. Why even bother ☹️”

How old are these people? Are they for real? Lol

“Oh come on, it’s DIFFERENT. Thank you for your money.”

I opened it just to see some of the photos, and my browser crashed. The photos aren’t even good, don’t even open the link.

I don’t think I realized Kotaku had gotten this bad. Yikes!

Haha that ghost is reading Boolysses

I was pretty hooked on Babylon 5 from the start, and I can’t say the same for series like Star Trek: TNG! To me the world felt pretty fleshed-out and cohesive really early.

I actually need to pick Babylon 5 back up, I can struggle with watching series consistently, even ones I like.

I might be in the minority but I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still twice in my twenties and thirties and I found it almost impossibly slow. I’m not used to the pacing of old movies, so that might be part of it.

But I also was expecting more of a science fiction movie than a social drama. It has a robot on the cover. Haha!

I watched it the second time to understand what I didn’t see the first time, and realized it’s just not for me. I can’t remember my particular complaints other than the pacing, which might be fine if the kid is used to it.

People who are downvoting: why?

Is the David Lynch Dune that good? I doubt it. Should a kid be forced to sit through a cult classic? Probably not.

I feel like Dune fanatics leave logic at the door sometimes.

Contact is such a good movie! I watched it when I was a kid too and I watched it more than once.