Best chance would probably be Gretchen Whitmer or Andy Beshar. There are a bunch of possible boring candidates that would smoke trump.

Funniest would be Eric Adams.

Gavin Newsom is, imo, unelectable on a national stage, and is probably actually a worse choice than just sticking with Joe Biden.

While Mario Odyssey is a little tedious to 100%, the other Mario games are awesome for that. The secret levels and puzzles are usually the most interesting and challenging.

The other mainline 3D Mario games have 120 stars is a classic “easy” 100% to get. The Mario 3D Land games and New Super Mario Bros games usually have explicit stats on each level about how many secrets you’ve missed. Mario 3 and Mario World have more esoteric secrets, but everything is telegraphed if you pay attention to the levels.

As difficult as it might be to believe, battery life is often improved by modern backlit IPS screens.

The kids seem mostly fine. They probably don’t understand quite how extraordinary the pressure is on them compared to even just 25 years ago. I’m very concerned about how their math skills are developing, but I think that has something to do with how much schools have fallen apart and/or turned into performance pressure cookers. They’re kinder than previous generations, and honestly it’s surprising to me that they are because of how fucked society is around them.

I don’t get their humor, but I assume it’s very funny if you’re in the know.

Imagine if a nuclear exchange happened, but none of the warheads went off because of some unforseen flaw from the material degradation that arises after sitting in a silo for thirty years.

Correcting someone’s spelling is imperialist

The most nightmarish enemy in Kirby.

They were packed full of content, too. Reviews, interviews, strategy guides, cheats and mods. Even the ads were cool. I kept a lot of my old game magazines, and they’re still pretty fun to read through. Obviously, you have to grit and bear all the edgy “humor” and hornyness.

The 80s and 90s were a golden age for hobby magazines. I think by the late 00s, all the young writers (who have always made up the bulk of writers for magazines) started making tool-assisted content for content mills and blogspam, and that style of writing is what now dominates hobby magazines. Modern magazine content must be first and foremost slop for the web version of the magazine, and it’s only later cobbled together into the physical version.

Really cool soundtrack for a cool game. The B-side remixes are great.

I turned on support for cracked clients on my server, because about half the people who play on it missed the deadline. A lot of longtime players I play with will only pick it up for a few months once every 3-5 years, and so obviously they weren’t paying attention to this arbitrary money grab deadline.

A tragedy, for sure. Vimm’s Lair also happens to be one of the best examples of a great Web 1.0 site. It gives me a warm feeling, browsing around static, text-mostly pages.

Yum

Mind-blowing that this ran on PS2 hardware. Still some of the most fluid and natural animations ever.

You are what you eat

Me too.

Space X does have a Tesla Roadster in orbit that they could drop onto Colorado Springs

They’re gonna say that Russia funded Saddam, aren’t they?

The happy medium might be in that era of the PS1 through PS2 when games weren’t just coinsuckers, but were also designed without “online experiences” in mind. Once we got to PS3 and the other 7th generation consoles, we started really getting into awful always-on online shit. I’ve been playing through the Assassins Creed Black Flag on the PS3, and it’s crazy how much of that seeps into what should just be a self-contained game.

I have an inkling that the modern gaming experience will eventually become so intolerable that playing old retro games will become the final refuge of gaming.

Millenials are now experiencing the consequences of inventing gary’s mod machinima