I prefer AI courtesan

The Wii U had a very short (relative for a console) lifespan, though. It released at the end of 2012, and the Switch came in early 2017. Really just 4 years and some change. It didn’t sell well and Nintendo wanted to move on from it as quickly as possible.

The Switch, by comparison, lasted about twice as long (longer if you factor in how many more game releases it’s still likely to see), and I’d anticipate the Switch 2 having a comparable lifespan if it continues to sell well. We’re not getting a Switch 3 in 2030, at least.

Most of them are so expensive, though.

No, Philips, I am not spending $50 on a single bulb, that is madness.

IIRC there was also a small-time Scooby Doo movie Zaslav killed that was already all but finished. Doubt it would have been good or anything special, but another example of them killing a complete project just to write it off.

Edit: found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoob!_Holiday_Haunt

Where do you live? Some countries are more ethnically homogenous than others, and so your sample size may not see as much genetic variety.

Before anyone actually updates their resume to look better based on a meme:

Sabbatical is just a long vacation. It’s not that you stop being employed, you just take an extended leave and almost always have an agreed-upon return date.

Absolutely adorable.

It can be hard to snap a pic of the little guys, too. They’re in the habit of grabbing whatever they need out of the feeder and immediately flying away to eat it somewhere else, rather than chowing down there like most other species.

I think if they did a ground-up remake/reimagining of Arena or Daggerfall, it could still be compelling. Not a simple remaster, though.

That being said, there is apparently a Unity port of Daggerfall that appears quite decent, and goes a long way towards modernizing an otherwise ancient game.

I doubt that is the case, as there are other games with comparable content that are published on Nintendo’s store.

This is basically just a non-answer that doesn’t say much of anything at all. It could just as easily be one of the ratings organizations to blame, based on that statement, which seems likelier for the reasons others have mentioned.

I can’t be arsed to keep up with changing the config of the browser I didn’t choose every time the device updates with new admin-defined settings. That’s all.

On my personal device I still use Google right now for consistency/because change is hard, but I set the default behavior in Firefox to exclude AI results.

I’d just prefer to use/support a search engine that abstains from AI entirely, regardless of whether or not you can turn it off. I don’t want to be a happy customer of companies that still try to weasel that stuff in, because they won’t stop at a toggle. They never do.

Yeah but you can do the same with Google as well (just can’t be arsed to change the search settings on my work PC), it’s the principle of the thing.

That’d be my guess.

I have never once went out of my way to use Gemini, for example, but having it appear in every other Google search with some lying bullshit to spread is probably driving up their engagement numbers.

I really should stop using Google. But can’t use DDG either because they just use Bing and their own AI service as well, and so does Kagi.

The funny part about this is that Stuart Little is already canonically a human child. He just happens to look like a mouse.

Anyone who objects can take it up with E.B. White, I don’t make the rules.

Even now I feel like I haven’t seen any noticeable performance increase on 5G vs 4G. And yet now whenever I only have a 4G signal, I can barely get websites to load.

I used to be able to video chat with people on the other side of the planet over 4G in 2017. In 2015, I used to be able to tether my phone to my laptop and stream 4K video without issue. I have no idea what they did to make it suck so badly today.

Aww, that context gives this whole meme a lot more depth to me. I can’t entirely articulate why, but I guess it’s just nice to know that he was actually wholesome and loved.

Surprised to see so much Odyssey content in this movie (Sand Kingdom, the T-Rex from Cascade/Wooded Kingdom). I would have thought they’d be saving Odyssey for a third film, particularly since this one also appears to be eating some of Sunshine’s spotlight.

And I know that Sand Kingdom was a brief backdrop in the first movie, but there’s a difference between having it as background set dressing vs. actually going there for a protracted scene in the movie.

Not that Haiti was necessarily at fault for that, though. It was either brace for further conquest, or submit to incredibly harsh terms of peace that would still see the country stripped of all its wealth.

I’m not the previous poster, but the French Revolution > Reign of Terror > Napoleonic Era > etc. comes to mind. A cycle of despots one after another.

Yep

https://piefed.social/c/games/p/1656295/nintendo-switch-2-sales-stumble-over-christmas

I thought True Colors was decent enough, but by all accounts Double Exposure was nothing special.

I really liked the anthology thing the series was going with, where every game was telling a different story with a different cast. Maybe eventually getting to the core of answering why these random kids have strange abilities.

But the last thing I wanted was them to try to continue from (what I thought was) a perfect ending. Just seems like they’ve lost the point.