It absolutely brought me back to the late 90s shooters I grew up with. Lots of fun, but there were also a lot of parts I got stuck on, too. I will need some time before I play again / consider the BM version - maybe after HL2. Thanks for the additional info.

I just finished my first playthrough of Half-Life and wish I had known about this alternate version, it looks great. Thanks for the write up.

Back in the Pokemon TCG for Gameboy days, it was all about the joy of catching collecting 'em all, and building your custom decks to battle with. Things didn’t have to be monetizable to be fun back then.

Hey, that’s not fair. They added an intrusive feature that offers to “create an event” every fucking time I copy a date in Excel. I’m sure that’s useful to someone. /s

Unfortunately not. Is it only available on the 3DS?

Then we all get laughed at to our faces.

It’s easily The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

It has everything I could ask for in a game: Sword fighting. Magic. Secrets. Dungeon crawling. An alternate dimension. Side quests. Different tools and items. There’s enough content that it feels fulfilling to complete it. Peak art. Peak music. NPCs don’t talk too much, and there are just enough of them to make the world feel alive. Bosses.

Yes

Ah ok. I didn’t notice if there was an issue when I was a kid playing it - too busy being enamoured with the battle system!

What’s wrong with it? I enjoyed playing it on PS2.

-Dark Cloud (1 and 2)

-Time Splitters 2

-Red Faction

-Grandia 2

-ICO and Shadow of the Colossus

-Shinobi

-Twisted Metal Black

-Ape Escape (2 and 3)

-Armored Core 2

-Dead or Alive 2

-Gran Turismo 3

-Final Fantasy X

-Grand Theft Auto III / Vice City / San Andreas

-Midnight Club Street Racing

-Soul Calibur 2

She’s so full of it lol

Earth’s Own is Canadian and makes pretty good oat milk.

I’ve already switched to them for a while since it’s more affordable than other coffee creamers.

This makes me want to hear the “Quad City DJs - Space Jam” theme sung by Eddie Vedder

No, I think you’re all good. That part scared me too.

Remember to check the instruction manual for clues.

It’s starting to look like Facebook comments out here

No new games

It’s still unclear to me if you are always a trio.

Is “solo” you + 2 bots?

Can you play as 2 friends + 1 bot or 1 random player?

I think it’s possible that generational wealth has become a factor in driving a larger wealth gap, especially looking at real estate.

I think there is a large reserve of boomer wealth that some millennials are starting to find themselves in possession of. Boomer parents’ $50k bungalow is now worth $1mil. Their millenial kids still have a “work and have children mindset”, vans and trucks are easily justified especially with those means. Maybe we’ll see their grandkids slow down in having kids.

Here in Ontario I see new condos going up constantly. I can’t imagine having a mortgage on a condo, plus paying condo fees forever. Who can afford them?