caseyweederman

You mean Gehenna, the literal place that was just a garbage dump around the corner? “Don’t go to that place, man, it sucks. Somebody lit a trash pile on fire two weeks ago and it’s still burning now. It’s gross.”

Or did you mean Hades, the place John (no, not that John (probably)) wrote about many years after Jesus’s death? In the book of Revelation, the whole of which is full of obvious symbolic imagery? A) not Jesus and B) still not “hell”.

Ohhhhh you were talking about Dante Alighieri, the guy born twelve hundred years later, who invented our modern concept of hell whole cloth.

“Hell”, a translation of any of the three words Gehenna, Hades, and Tartarus, show up anywhere between 13 and 23 times in the entire new testament. That wide range is due to differences in translations and source texts.

Nobody talks about Jesus talking about hell more than modern preachers who profit off of making people fearful. You know, the exact people Jesus would have thrashed out of the temple with a whip.

There is a story in the Apocrypha (decanonized Bible books) where childhood Jesus turns another kid into a tree. I like to think it’s the same tree.

I remember when I thought Arch was unreliable.

Sink or swim! Embrace chaos! Constant confusion builds character.

You reminded me that I have a Windows VM.

Cheesesteak basketball. Taxi apple sponge.

I have a hard time believing anybody wants AI. I mean, AI as it is being sold to them right now.

I keep finding new features. Tabs. Hsplit. Plugins. Authentication prompt at save time if it detects that the user you ran it under doesn’t have permission to write to that file.
And of course keybinds that make a dang lick of sense.

It’s time for you to find Micro. The cycle continues.

That’s fucking cooooool

The first gym is rock, the second is water, the third is electric. Charmander has a really hard time in those first two matchups and only hits neutral in the third. At this stage of the game, it’s really difficult to fill out your types because the wild Pokémon are largely birds, bugs, and rats.
If you’re really lucky, you’ll hit the extremely low encounter rate for Pikachu in Viridian Forest, and if you’re even luckier, you’ll catch one. But that only helps you against Misty.

In contrast, Bulbasaur is super effective against the first two gyms, and is merely neutral against Lt. Surge and his electric mice.
And by that point you’ve fed two whole gyms full of trainers and gym leaders into your Bulbasaur (by virtue of not having to constantly rotate through your back line just to survive).
Which means it can both take a beating and lay a smackdown in what is on its face a “neutral matchup”.

After that point the game opens up dramatically and that initial advantage fades.

It was a perfect storm of unpatchable hardware exploit and games releasing in parallel on hardware that was already solved. We might be waiting a while on the Switch 2.

I’m about 50/50 on this being sarcasm. I’ll risk ruining the joke by saying:
It’s simulated 3D sound, meaning no special hardware is required. Youtube plus headphones would be a good demonstration.

Sorry! Sorry. Miss bro.

What are you, a Tintin villain based on Greek stereotypes?

Ah yes, “co-op mode”

Check out Retro City Rampage. The creator made a version that works on original NES hardware: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/02/retro-city-rampage-creator-makes-a-real-playable-nes-port/

You’d love Tunic. It’s 3D, but damn do they ever capture that feeling, including the manual (which you collect in-game, page by page)

I’m really enjoying it, thank you.

Still pretty cool though. Maybe this tech will eventually lead to a softmod.