“Everything printed by Tabloid is automatically capitalized, and an exclamation point is added. Why would you want anything else?”

Finally an opinionated programming language with the right priorities.

This is for me.

I love open hardware and the modern 8-bit game scene.

Good point. With the specs fully open, hopefully we get a portable of this, at some point.

I want to spend Christmas at Lance’s house.

If one person has never used Twitter, I think they get all three antidote doses.

One could argue Tetris could carry the whole competition alone, but it is joined by Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt, Spy Hunter, and Gauntlet in 1985

I would leave it at that, except Pac-Man, Frogger, Galaga, Defender, and Donkey Kong make 1981 a contender

That’s a fair point. I enjoyed the game later out of curiosity - but it wasn’t a “this is your only Christmas gift” kick in the gut, for me.

they’re all some random platformer which sometimes alluded to they had a movie name.

That’s a good point. E.T. was not alone in this, and had more to do with it’s movie that many games that followed.

I played E.T. relatively recently to remind myself what the fuss was about.

The game plays fine (with average Atari bugginess).

It just stands out as an early huge miss for a movie tie in. Almost nothing about the game feels like the movie, or is particularly anything a fan of the movie would seem likely to enjoy.

I say “almost” because the exploring kind of fits. The same exploring that is constantly frustratingly interrupted by pit falls.

It’s really not that bad of a game, though.

I’d argue Superman 64 for the N64 is a worse game by all measures.

I’ve spent some unfortunate time with both, and can confirm. Superman 64 is worse by a pretty large margin.

E.T. is genuinely playable, after a needlessly awful learning curve. Superman 64 still continues to suck even for (shudder) players who have put in the necessary time to learn to play it.

Edit: As others have said before: E.T. is a decent game, it’s just a lousy choice for an E.T. tie-in.

Fans of a beloved highly polished film masterpiece about gentle communication and wide eyed exploration discovered the Atari game was a nearly unfinished punishing high stress race against a merciless clock - which frequently abruptly ended any aspiration a player had of discovering anything beyond the same pit they fell into many times before.

I think many of us feel that way.

The thing is, I adore Saints Row 4, but I don’t think I want to play Saints Row 4 Part 2.

So I do hope they return to the style of Saints Row 3 for the next chapter.

Honestly, what I really want is Saints Row 3 again with some new plotlines and lots of car skins and dress-up options.

Fuck it, make it saints row taking over a small island country for tax reasons and just roll with it.

If they do this, that can shut up and take my money.

Are you considerimg turning down a promotion (with more pay or progression to more pay?) because a couple of coworkers talk too much?

I would rather space out while they gossip and daydream about all the extra money I’m going to make.

I would absolutely not raise this concern with my boss. Since my job includes needing to work well with all kinds of people, raising your concern would be career limiting, for me.

I agree it’s a stupid theory.

But of course, if I designed the simulation, I don’t have to actually simulate any of the complex bits, I just have to alter each simulated person to remember successfully observing the results of the complex bits.

Edit: Of course, my solution breaks the infitine chain of nested worlds anyway. I don’t have to simulate infitine nested worlds in my simulation’s computers - I just simulate a small believable set of memories of having done so. So even those infitine nested worlds are just paper cutouts of the real thing.

I guess either way, I don’t spend infitine processing power, so the average person has a 50/50 chance of being inside or outside the top level simulation.

Edit 2: But ironically, each person has 100% chance of believing that they are taking part in an infinite set of nested simulated worlds - if my simulated memories are believable enough.

Matt lost the will to live in a world where the “Does anyone want to play GameCube later?” mug sits unused.

Yes. Sadly Linux viruses are doing well, today. I suppose it is a reflection of Linux’s success.

That reminds me - I’m finally ready to remove that Under Conduction animation from my Geocities page…

I recall IR game controllers of that era were only particularly bad when I got excited, nervous or too focused on the game, and let them point a millimeter away from the sensor…so they only really thoroughly failed exactly when it cost me the most in the game. Haha.

“Our AI security reviews 20,000 configurations every hour. Your money is safer than - shit. Well, nevermind. There’s no money left. Excuse me, I need to leave the country.”

If it’s all dumped into a single commit, I will whip your computer into the nearest body of water and tell you to go fish it out.

I’m going to steal this for an update to an internal guidance document for my dev team. Thank you.