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  1. Comment on Los Angeles Dodgers beat Toronto Blue Jays to win the World Series in ~sports.baseball

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    This whole World Series has been fantastic. Lots of close games, including one of them that went to 18 innings. Both teams did very good and kept us at the edge of our seats!

    This whole World Series has been fantastic. Lots of close games, including one of them that went to 18 innings. Both teams did very good and kept us at the edge of our seats!

    8 votes

  2. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    My friend said that many people read the first Stormlight Archive book on its own, but she had suggested trying out Mistborn first since the books are a lot shorter, so it'd be a good place to see...

    My friend said that many people read the first Stormlight Archive book on its own, but she had suggested trying out Mistborn first since the books are a lot shorter, so it'd be a good place to see if I liked his writing.

    So far I've been really enjoying the books, so I plan on continuing to read his stuff for a little while. The number of books he's written is daunting, I'm not used to reading from authors with more than 7 or so normal sized books, but I think the biggest concern is renting the Stormight Archive books from the library or Libby... I don't know how I'm going to read such massive, 1200 or so page books, in the couple weeks that they give you! Normally you can get an extension if nobody else places a hold, but Sanderson's books are popular and usually have a few people in the queue waiting to put it on hold. If the Stormlight Archive books were split in half, to be 10 more normal sized books with the same content, it'd be a bit easier to rent them.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Five more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge in ~news

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    No, I didn't unsubscribe from any of the default groups, and I checked that I'm still subscribed to ~arts. I searched by clicking on the tags on this post, which I see searches inside of the...

    No, I didn't unsubscribe from any of the default groups, and I checked that I'm still subscribed to ~arts. I searched by clicking on the tags on this post, which I see searches inside of the current group instead of across the whole site. I guess I must have used Tildes less than I thought on that Sunday, but I still find it weird that I never saw it on other platforms like the Fediverse/Lemmy and that none of my friends or group chats discussed it.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Five more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge in ~news

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    Thank you! What's weird is that the ~arts post got 95 votes, which on Tildes is massive, and I scroll through Tildes daily, but I don't recall ever seeing it in my feed! I checked and I'm still...

    Thank you! What's weird is that the ~arts post got 95 votes, which on Tildes is massive, and I scroll through Tildes daily, but I don't recall ever seeing it in my feed! I checked and I'm still subscribed to ~arts. The biggest shock is that the article is on the 19th! I never heard a peep about a news story this big until 5 days later on the 24th! Huh.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Five more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge in ~news

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    Not directly related to the article: So for most current events, I'll see people share articles saying that a thing happened, then I'll start to see posts joking/memeing about it, or posts about...

    Not directly related to the article:
    So for most current events, I'll see people share articles saying that a thing happened, then I'll start to see posts joking/memeing about it, or posts about the fallout of the event. For this Louvre heist, however, I've only seen the secondary content. On Tildes, on other social media, and on my various Discord servers, nobody shared the articles when the theft itself occurred, they all waited until that German company made an ad about their ladder being used in the heist. Then everyone acted like we'd all heard of this heist already. I thought that was kinda odd, I must have missed the Tildes article. But I checked the various tags like "crime", "theft", "france.paris", and even "louvre", and it looks like nobody on Tildes reported on the original event. It's not the craziest thing in the world, but I just found it kind of unusual...

    6 votes

  6. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I had heard of Sanderson's specialty in hard magic systems and had heard of Stormlight Archive in passing. A few months ago some friends of mine were discussing fantasy stories and mentioned...

    I had heard of Sanderson's specialty in hard magic systems and had heard of Stormlight Archive in passing. A few months ago some friends of mine were discussing fantasy stories and mentioned Sanderson, so I asked where the heck I should even start reading. Was the first Stormlight book good on its own, or were there a bunch of earlier books I had to read first? One of them suggested reading the original Mistborn trilogy first.
    So far I'm halfway through the third book, and I've been loving it. Would absolutely recommend the trilogy to anyone in this thread looking for fantasy books. I went in expecting an older series that I was supposed to read as a primer for something else, and it completely shattered those expectations. Hearing his writing gets better and that he writes good conclusions is fantastic news!

    1 vote

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  8. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    I'm only halfway through the season at episode 4, but so far it's fantastic. Something I've noticed is that whenever I think "Did the people in the show notice that a suspicious or weird thing is...

    I'm only halfway through the season at episode 4, but so far it's fantastic.

    Something I've noticed is that whenever I think "Did the people in the show notice that a suspicious or weird thing is happening?", the show will address that right away. They'll show a character is aware of what's going on and is allowing it to happen intentionally. The only other show I remember that kind of thing happening in was Better Call Saul, where there were times Saul/Jimmy would try to pull a trick on someone that you would expect to work in a poorly written show, and as I said out loud it was stupid, the other character like his brother or whoever would notice and call him out in the show.

    I also noticed that, thanks to Timothy Olyphant's character reading the ship logs, he tends to know the stuff about Xenomorphs that the audience already knows, such as how the eggs and face huggers work. So unlike many Alien installments, we don't have to sit there and watch as these clueless characters learn all the stuff that we've seen other characters get killed by a thousand times at this point.

    6 votes

  9. Comment on Nintendo adding Virtual Boy to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, with Virtual Boy replica accessory to play games in 3D in ~games

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    This is something I thought of when I first saw the announcement. They are re-releasing their most underperforming system to date, but to play it, you will need: A game console (over $300 unless...

    This is something I thought of when I first saw the announcement. They are re-releasing their most underperforming system to date, but to play it, you will need:

    • A game console (over $300 unless you buy used)
    • A subscription service ($20 per year)
    • A higher tier of said subscription service (an additional $30 per year)
    • A hardware peripheral only available to people with said subscription service and only sold on Nintendo's website ($100)

    The barrier of entry to this thing when you lay it all out like that is completely insane.

    The biggest benefit of a re-release of a retro console so dependent on its form factor like this is because you can't just emulate it on a PC or phone and get the same experience.

    Making this tied to the hip both to the Switch/Switch 2 and the highest tier of a subscription service instead of a mini console like the NES and SNES Mini limits its value for game preservation quite a lot. In my opinion, if they really wanted to make this an accessory instead of a mini console, the Virtual Boy games should be a free Switch app with an accompanying retail product you buy, similar to the Mario Kart Live Home Circuit thing where you bought an RC car but the Switch app to control it was free.

    I bet there's a market for people who've seen the Virtual Boy in YouTube videos but weren't alive when it came out, or who were around back then and never got to use it, and are interested in trying it out for themselves. This should be accessible to as many of those people as possible, because I bet there's not a lot of them. Only that group of people is gonna pay for this accessory, and those of them who don't already have the Switch and Online and Expansion Pack aren't gonna buy all that just for this.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Chris Houlihan is real in ~games

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    When Zelda: A Link to the Past released for the SNES in English, players found a secret room that contained a very out of place, real person's name: "Chris Houlihan". Years later, an official...

    When Zelda: A Link to the Past released for the SNES in English, players found a secret room that contained a very out of place, real person's name: "Chris Houlihan". Years later, an official statement from Nintendo Power magazine said that this was a reward for a contest held two years before the game came out.

    There were a lot of odd circumstances around the contest, such the lack of a proper announcement of a contest winner for many years, that created a lot of doubt around the situation. There were many fan theories: Chris died shortly after the contest so they never announced it, or that he never existed and they made up a name to make the contest not look like a scam, or something similar.

    After decades of debate, Youtuber Kevin Hainline, by pure luck, got to meet thee Chris Houlihan in person and solve the mystery.

    5 votes

  12. Comment on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie | Title announcement in ~movies

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    There was an official leak not too long ago from a press release on NBC Universal's website that this would be a "Super Mario World" movie instead. In retrospect, I wonder what that was about? Did...

    There was an official leak not too long ago from a press release on NBC Universal's website that this would be a "Super Mario World" movie instead. In retrospect, I wonder what that was about? Did some intern accidentally write the wrong title and it got sent out?

    Regardless, I'm more excited to see a Galaxy movie instead. I think the soundtrack, space atmosphere, and the Rosalina stuff would transfer pretty well to the big screen.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Nintendo adding Virtual Boy to Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, with Virtual Boy replica accessory to play games in 3D in ~games

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    Yes... really. What a wacky release. What's funny is that in the same direct, they announced a re-release of Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, with both Virtual Boy and Galaxy 2 being "black sheep" that...

    Yes... really.
    What a wacky release.

    What's funny is that in the same direct, they announced a re-release of Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, with both Virtual Boy and Galaxy 2 being "black sheep" that Nintendo has neglected to mention in years past.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong will cost $20, releases Thursday at 7 am PDT/10 am EDT in ~games

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    I know everyone's social media exposure is different, but I'd say Silksong's meme status and hype is very well documented. Every live gaming presentation (Nintendo Direct, The Game Awards, etc)...

    I know everyone's social media exposure is different, but I'd say Silksong's meme status and hype is very well documented.

    • Every live gaming presentation (Nintendo Direct, The Game Awards, etc) has been completely spammed by people asking about Silksong for many years. Like it was at least 30% of the chat messages.
    • Silksong was the #1 most wishlisted game on Steam until it released today.
    • It was so popular, people buying the game crashed Steam.
    • Many other games had to delay their release when Silksong announced their release date 2 weeks ago.
    • Folding Ideas (the guy who made the "Line Goes Up" video essay that helped kill the NFT hype) gave a 1 hour presentation about Silksong memes at PAX (haven't seen it but I heard it's good): https://youtu.be/WSkbylysplI
    10 votes

  18. Comment on ‘Call of Duty’ movie in the works under major Paramount Skydance, Microsoft’s Activision pact in ~movies

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    Considering that none other than Folding Ideas, Mr. "Video Essay So Good It Killed NFT Hype" himself, just made a video about the Ghosts storyline, it'd be really funny timing to reveal a Ghosts...

    Considering that none other than Folding Ideas, Mr. "Video Essay So Good It Killed NFT Hype" himself, just made a video about the Ghosts storyline, it'd be really funny timing to reveal a Ghosts movie.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong will cost $20, releases Thursday at 7 am PDT/10 am EDT in ~games

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    What's interesting about the price is that it's actually a 33% price hike from the original Hollow Knight, which was, and after its massive popularity still is, $15. But considering how the...

    What's interesting about the price is that it's actually a 33% price hike from the original Hollow Knight, which was, and after its massive popularity still is, $15. But considering how the original is like a top 5 biggest indie darling ever, and how Silksong's meme status now not only rivals, but has arguably surpassed the likes of GTA 6, Half Life 3, or Elder Scrolls 6, the price sounds like a complete steal. They easily could have charged $40 and most people wouldn't have been surprised.

    14 votes