Ron

You forgot to mention how, not just before Beacons with the bacon emoji, Sean likes to tease EVERY expansion with an emoji like this.

Been that way since the third or fourth expansion, IIRC.

Between this and the whole bricking your console for modding it thing (which IS going to run afoul of right to repair laws, and soon), Nintendo is starting to get into anti-consumer practices territory now. That's not going to end well for them.

So basically there are two reasons GameStop will shut down a specific store. The first being a rent issue. Either the landlord tried raising the rent, or a third party made a better offer. The second being the store underperforming. GameStop basically cares about three metrics: How many Pro memberships you sell, how many "protection plans" you sell (we aren't supposed to call them warranties anymore), and how many reservations you get. If the employees aren't getting those numbers and multiple changes of management haven't fixed that, the company will shut it down. They don't mind so much if it's a high volume store, but if it doesn't get the foot traffic and it doesn't get the numbers, it's on the chopping block.

Dunno which of these two was the case with this store in particular, but I guarantee it was one of them. My money would be on it being a rent issue. That's more often than not the case.

But maybe some young, hopeful entrepreneur will see the potential in the space and open their own indie game shop and keep the Halo poster up.

It's because Fortnite and Roblox are free, Minecraft is cheap, and that's all the kids want to play anymore. Also doesn't help that the target audience for most mainstream games now is in the 25-35 age range. As far as the 18-24 range... Well, those kids should be too busy going out and getting drunk and laid instead of doing their college homework to be playing video games.

I keep seeing articles about how they left this bug in and that bug in and it ABSOLUTELY has to be intentional... No, no it doesn't. They literally just ported the entire game into Unreal Engine with all the code in tact and basically just modded it from there. It's not that they left them there on purpose, it's that it was beyond the scope of the project to go through and fix ALL the bugs.

Which is fine. We didn't really want them to fix anything, just make it playable again with new graphics that don't feel completely dated.

I mean this in the nicest way possible, but the only way the VA for Aloy would work in a live action movie is if it took place many years in the future from the games, because the character is significantly and noticeably younger than the actress.

"Isekai Manga is not always about people sent to other worlds, they can also be about people sent to pocket dimensions created from novels they read."

Tell me you don't understand what you're talking about about without telling me you don't understand what you're talking about.

Isekai, as a genre, is DEFINED by sending it's protagonists to another world. "Isekai" LITERALLY means "other world". And sending someone to a pocket dimension IS sending them to another world.

Mine was the original Legend of Zelda on the NES with the fancy gold cartridge. I remember playing it at my cousin's house one year and then when I convinced my parents to get it for me they got me Zelda II: Adventure of Link instead, and I never got to finish the original until I started playing old games on emulators in the early 2000s.