Critical plot points in secrets do not make for good story design. At most, you should have some reveal relevant to a sequel in a secret; not the parts that make your story actually decent. I actually agree that they shouldn't have buried some of those revelations. That said, keeping the various ch...

Reprise wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 8:44 am Thanks, that's useful to remember. I actually recently got into the 480p scene on PS2 and it sucks how few games actually support it.

I always found the poor 480p support on PS2 confusing given just how well-supported 480p gaming was on Dreamcast.

Marathon is a first person shooter for the Mac, developed by Bungie of later Halo fame. At the time, the pickings for FPSs on the Mac were extremely slim; they never got Doom, for example. Marathon is overall an ambitious game that suffers from poor level design, poor weapon design, poor physics, a...

Paid YouTube is such a scam. WAY too expensive for what it is.

I have noticed that Apple Music streams in pretty good quality. If there isn't enough bandwidth it just quits.

My car from 2015 has a CD player but you have to slide the screen down tog etc to the opening. I don’t think I’ve ever used a CD in the thing.

Game on, summer stars! Reading this thread is going to be my summer guilty pleasure.

I’m gonna throw Faxanadu into the hat. It was supposed to be Hudson porting Falcom’s Xanadu from PC to NES (Famicom Xanadu = Faxanadu) but Hudson decided to run with it. Very exploration and luzzle item-focused, as was the vibe of the time. Good soundtrack by Jun Chikuma. Irritated Falcom to no end ...

I'd like to buy vinyl, but I don't know where I'd store them and supposedly CD audio is higher quality anyway. Vinyl collecting seems more like a novelty for serious music nerds and I'm really just a casual fan of music. CD is far and away a more accurate replication of what was recorded, but some ...

I do still want to buy and rip CDs of bands I like enough to have in my collection. But I also like to use Apple Music to explore back-catalog entries I don't have and discover new music.