I was expecting some cool Mario strats

I’m always using “clear” to just get rid of my console’s output. I think it has something to do with me remembering I used that on my old 80’s computer, trying it out on a bash long after that and “oh, that works here too, that’s convenient”.

Reset looks like it does more stuff, but I don’t know if that’s useful for this use case.

I didn’t know the hare and the hedgehog before searching for it just now, apparently that one was in Grimm brothers’ tales.

The hare and the tortoise, popularized by Jean de la Fontaine and a retelling of a very old tale present in Aesop’s, is the one referenced here.

They both start with an arrogant hare mocking a slow animal and a race between them, and are probably inspired by the same material, but they diverge a lot in message according to what I read about the Grimms one.

The hedgehog wins repeatedly through trickery and the story feels like him getting revenge against the hare for insulting him (especially since it ends with the hare’s death).

The tortoise is just very resilient and focused while the hare is so confident he just messes around for a long time near the finish line, and misses the tortoise reaching it.

Looks fluffy.

How dare you compare an established monument of contemporary literature to something like Harry Potter?

I’m not fine with it, but I’m subscribed for the online service. I hate that model, but hey, I have access to it for basically unrelated reasons, so I use it sometimes.

The extra sub just for more consoles can kiss my ass however, no matter how much I’d like to be able to play some of these. I would pay a reasonable one-time price for some of them.

Pokopia is a silly spin-off that would have been an automatic success on IP alone. It has 300 pokémon at launch, runs great, has loads of content and custom animations and feels very alive with many real-time, interactive elements.

Meanwhile the game built around the series’ minimal core mechanics apparently runs like shit, has about half as many characters as Pokopia and not even a fifth of the total roster, and doesn’t even implement correctly the simple established rules of a turn-based RPG battle.

They have a third data farm in Pikmin Bloom. Wait, does Pikmin Bloom still exist? I did that for a couple months and lost interest.

My second-hand, old as hell, button-only kindle has never downloaded any book from Amazon since I got it. Only Calibre.

Does it mean pokémon go players also routinely crash into bus stops?

in some European countries we have a special kind of horsepower that’s called the “tax horsepower” (cheval fiscal, symbol CV in France), or “what kind of eldritch formula do we need to transform that unit into a vehicle classification tool for tax purposes”.

We’ve had several formulas, and the current one has come around to being kind of an actual (rounded) power unit. Previous ones involved carbon dioxide levels, gearbox efficiency and whether you’re using gasoline or diesel.

So if I am applying one of those, I believe a horse has exactly NaN CV.

My brain just auto-identifies these characters as rito people from Zelda, specifically Wind Waker-style.

I can’t unsee it.

EA ruined this series.

I hope Paralives takes over.

It works for Nora territory that’s like a quarter of the map. The paint is everywhere including places that are completely forbidden to them, and only a couple of isolated bannished people have left their land.

And the real problem I have with it is not that it’s not explained, it’s that exploration is frankly discouraged in this game. If and only if you know you’re supposed to go somewhere, follow the trail. If there’s no trail, OR if you don’t have a quest here yet, don’t go, you’re losing your time.

Mirror’s Edge’s environment itself was mostly white but used bright red highlights to guide the player if I remember correctly. So not yellow but kind of the same.

Horizon Zero Dawn is the one that I know that does the yellow paint thing completely straight and in the most obvious way. If it’s not yellow, don’t bother going that way.

Really it’s something any 3D game design has to face, you don’t want players to be too lost and disoriented. It’s just not fun. Lots of (well-designed) games do that by clever use of lighting and environmental clues. When it’s done right you mostly don’t realize it unless you’re looking for it, but it’s enough that you know the right way.

But if it’s too obvious, it can be a bit jarring.

Yeah it’s perfectly fine. And just leaving the signature is too. The discussion is mostly around that one troll actively removing signatures when they exist because “that’s an ad”.

That… shaft doesn’t look that smooth to me.

Whether this is better or worse is left to everyone’s appreciation.

One episode had a second Triforce, so if you could assemble both you’d have a Hexaforce. Maybe. They’re getting there.

These people from web3, crypto and genAI that regularly promise a revolution in gaming have all in common that they couldn’t start to recognize a good game to save their life.

They don’t play games. They don’t even see the point in playing games, which is why they’re so sure they can “fix” them with just their acute sense of marketing and nothing else.

If someone was wondering, that’s where the cucco (chicken) in Super Smash Bros Ultimate comes from too. And why whoever hits it (or is hit with it) has to endure an angry clucking swarm of birds.

In Brinstar, just between the morph ball and the starting elevator? Well, yeah.

This exact spot (along with a few rooms around it) exists in Super Metroid too, with an added eye thingy that alerts the space pirates that Samus has returned.