God, I wish I could make this, but I don’t get into SF until Monday night. Hope it goes great! @grubb.wtf @stephentotilo.bsky.social
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God, I wish I could make this, but I don’t get into SF until Monday night. Hope it goes great! @grubb.wtf @stephentotilo.bsky.social
A t-shirt with a Dalmatian wearing a bandana and an eye patch, smoking a cigar. The text says “DILF – Damn I Love Fishing”
can I get some “hell yeah brother”s in the chat?
Ayyyyyyy
Happy birthday, dude!
Wart acknowledged!
finally
Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
damn it’s crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldn’t be helped i’m sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord
I think we’re both trying too hard with our examples when, as someone in my mentions correctly pointed out, Fortnite (the game nearly all live-service games attempt to reach) had slow sales until it pivoted to a battle royale.
@lukethomas.bsky.social says "People didn't just walk away from the UFC who don't agree with Donald Trump... They are embarrassed to have ever been a part of the UFC or MMA fandom."
Me: *Raises hand* That's me. I won't even steal shows, I despise the UFC so much.
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By the way, this is another situation where shouting it into the void of social media does little to enact actual change. If you feel like me, tell your representative, like I did.
I’m not someone who is typically susceptible to moral panics, but we cannot call ourselves a virtuous society when we have companies like Kalshi and Polymarket gleefully offering gambling odds on real-life war and genocide.
I can understand that interpretation, but I just think it’s a little strong to call it misinfo when they’re using words like “quiet,” “understated,” and “sluggish” to describe early numbers. Either way, we can agree that, compared to what it would become, it started relatively quite slow.
“Then when Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green were released, it was such a quiet, understated start that it was impossible to imagine the way they would go on to explode in popularity.”
I don’t extrapolate “instant smash-hit” from that, personally. That says to me “quiet first months, then explosion.”
Iwata: I recall that the initial number of units to be shipped was smaller than I'd expected... But even so, I had quite high expectations. With that number of units, I imagined that they'd fly out of the shops and that stock would run dry very quickly. But sadly, that's wasn't to be... Ishihara: I remember looking at the weekly sales figures and feeling that we were just hovering around the edges of the top ten. Iwata: So at the outset, no one could have predicted that Pokémon would end up enjoying such worldwide popularity. Ishihara: It really was a quiet start. Iwata: But in spite of that sluggish start, things ended up turning around significantly. What do you attribute that to?
That tells me Masuda was seeing decent returns, which was definitely an indication of sales, but here was what I was referencing, which feels a tiny bit more definitive. Again, I’m not looking at years of data showing it was slow, but rather the early weeks/months, given the Highguard comparison.
It wasn’t a smash hit until the manga picked up steam and positive word of mouth spread. It was a smash hit in the US almost immediately, but Ishihara said that their initial monthly sales in Japan were slower than expected, attributed mostly to the Feb release/Game Boy being at end-of-lifecycle.
How is it misinfo? Ishihara and Iwata are on record saying sales were “sluggish” in the first few months for Red/Green. We don’t need 25 years of comparative sales data to compare when Highguard was shut down less than two months after launch.
hey thanks!
I’m not gonna hunt down nine box arts for the trend right now, but rest assured that there are at least nine video games that are important to me. Pretend I included an answer that perfectly resonated with your history and personal tastes, and it really, really impressed you.
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It’s extremely rare that I’ll play a game after I finish a review, but I just played Pokopia on my flight until my Switch 2’s battery died.
I love how many big fat Ls Minnesota has personally handed this administration. How’d that invasion work out for ya?
The Trump administration once again used the Pokémon IP, seemingly without permission. Surely Nintendo will go after them with the same tenacity they’ve historically pursued legal action against small creators and artists, right?
I was at first, too, but like someone else said, Mystery Heroes works as a great way to relearn muscle memory and learn to understand new heroes/maps.
Overwatch is once again amazing. It took this team a few years of tinkering, but they have largely found the sweet spot. I’m having an absolute blast getting reacquainted with a game I played for 1,000 hours but haven’t touched in years.
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Good start to a week and a half on the road
What a reveal for Cubone
Reading local reports of politics in other countries just to feel something.
RFK Jr.’s dunk on Dunkin’ riles up New Englanders: ‘Come and take it’ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Hell yeah brother
Based on what I’ve played, Australia Did It is super good. You can read my hands-on preview in the newest issue of Game Informer. Can’t wait to play more!