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Re: Round Up: The Previews Are In For Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's Switch 2 Port

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@Antraxx777

I dont even bother with res higher than 1080p.

(confession: I'm currently playing happily on my 2007 samsung plasma... in 720p 😅)

I think people who need more are gaming for completely different reasons than I am.

also, "ignorance is bliss" is not just a snide thing to say about ignorant people. it's also an accurate thing to say about blissful people 😄👍👍

Re: Round Up: The Previews Are In For Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's Switch 2 Port

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@AmplifyMJ

lol what am I playing at? 😅

I'm saying, when the same game is on multiple platforms, people will comment when one looks better than the other. it's almost compulsory.

even in cases like MGS on GBC, or Virtua Fighter 2 on genesis, they will always point out, "while it lacks the 3D polygonal graphics of [X platform]..."

Re: Round Up: The Previews Are In For Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's Switch 2 Port

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@AmplifyMJ

"Why the need to point out this isn’t the best looking version of the game? "

when in your entire life of reading about videogames have they ever generally not done this?

(PS - I'm playing devil's advocate, as I don't care about graphics and any game made in the last 10 years looks shockingly realistic to my aging eyes 😂✌️)

Re: "It's Truly Baffling" - Shigeru Miyamoto Comments On The Mario Galaxy Movie's Critical Reception

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@Gryffin

i haven't seen about half of your picks so I will be checking those out, thanks!

Also, big props for mentioning Dirty Rotten Scoundrels! I saw and loved it as a little kid and never forgot that one, yet I so seldomly come across it IRL or in conversation 👍👍

I think you'll get a kick out of "On Cinema, at The Cinema," which is a sort of anti-comedy series Tim Heidecker and Neil Hamburger did in the c.2010s as a sendup of public access TV film critic shows. The less you know going in, the better 👍

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQl8zBB7bPvIooDTYwY7v_V12KJfQueXZ&si=phq5nR5BAvO7yhIt

also Dr Katz, Professional Therapist is one of the great cartoons and/or improv shows of the 90s and definitely underappreciated today, in my opinion. Just the fact that it's animated improv is kinda unique, come to think of it. If you are into 90's comedians even better, though I'm sure most of them are American. ✌️

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3H6z037pboGUWNoRht95JX5Vo15ZKtFb&si=FTB-q1dqa7Nc70dQ

Re: "It's Truly Baffling" - Shigeru Miyamoto Comments On The Mario Galaxy Movie's Critical Reception

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@Gryffin

"the Whitest Kids You Know, the Kids in the Hall, Knox's Klay World, Plinkett's Diaries from the Ricky Gervais Show, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, Ghosts BBC, Derry Girls, The IT Crowd"

This guy laughs 👆

Some personal faves I could add are The State, On Cinema, Strangers with Candy, and Dr. Katz ✌️ I'm gonna check out the couple of yours I don't know, though, thanks!

Re: Miyamoto Thanks Fans For Watching The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

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@LastFootnote

" I think if you’re the kind of person who is interested in seeing a Super Mario movie specifically, the opinion of the self-selected group is actually more useful to you. If you just want to go see a movie in general, then yeah the critical reception is more likely to be what you’re looking for."

completely agree. 👍

Re: Miyamoto Thanks Fans For Watching The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

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People comparing the critic % to the user % as some kind of evidence don't seem to realize that one group is literally obligated to watch it and give a opinion as a professional, while the other is a self selected anonymous group among paying customers.

Honestly these aggregation websites feed fallacious arguments more than they could ever support an objective conclusion. ✌️

PS - critics and audiences loved The LEGO Movie. why shouldn't the Mario movies be at least as good as that? 🤔

Re: "It's Truly Baffling" - Shigeru Miyamoto Comments On The Mario Galaxy Movie's Critical Reception

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@benmalsky198

"Whats so “Trumpian” about it?"

Arrogant, entitled, grandiose, and factually inaccurate.

Specifically, the rhetorical strategy of mischaracterizing other people's roles or responsibilities in order to always frame oneself as a sort of victim. Right now, it's NATO/Article 5.

EDIT - also the emphasis on "the industry." (or as Trump would call it, the "ENDUST"ry.)

"I tried to save the industry - and it's not even my industry - but these other people, who SUPPOSEDLY want to support their industry, just want to be negative. They're crazy!"

Re: "It's Truly Baffling" - Shigeru Miyamoto Comments On The Mario Galaxy Movie's Critical Reception

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“We stepped in from another medium and did our best to help energize the film industry. And yet the very people who are supposed to champion the film industry are the ones being so negative; it’s truly baffling.”

This is the Trumpiest thing I've heard Miyamoto say. one hopes this is a mistranslation. 😕

I haven't seen the second one, but the first was particularly weak even compared to for example Shrek and Despicable Me, in terms of pacing, plot, writing, and acting. Boring yet exhausting is how I would describe it.

OTOH my absolutely brain rotted gen alpha relative loved it, bless his heart. ♥️

Re: Review: Hautepad C-AT Arcade Controller For Switch 1 & 2 – Unparalleled Versatility

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@Olliemar28

Options are good! can't argue with that. 👍

I like the 8bitdo solution for this, but otoh I dont like lights on my controllers so I might not actually like it in use.

in general I just wish the buttons weren't labelled on controllers! I know what console I'm playing.

(ps - it wouldnt be that hard for Nintendo to offer the option to swap the layout system-wide, or even per game or per controller. The "other" hybrid handheld system does this, but I do realize that would be a very "Nontendo" thing to do ✌️)

Re: PS5 Gets An Insane Price Increase – Will Nintendo Follow Suit?

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Friends, let me tell you, speaking as someone who bought a Steamdeck LCD on 320usd sale in October, months before they went away for good: if you have been thinking of getting a Switch 2 for 450, just do it, man. things change so fast, now.

I fully planned to buy my wife an LCD so we could play online and LAN games together, and they discontinued it a couple days before i got on there to buy it. Now, I cant even get her the more expensive model.

Re: PS5 Gets An Insane Price Increase – Will Nintendo Follow Suit?

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@electrolite77

"The absolute best thing Nintendo can do is find a way to hold the Switch 2 price where it is."

I completely agree with you. All they have to do is convince shareholders that a small sacrifice in profit per unit will preserve the growth of their user base, long term.

Re: PS5 Gets An Insane Price Increase – Will Nintendo Follow Suit?

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@ROMhaiku

"Don't kill me for asking but is the short-term fix for these crazy rises going to be cloud gaming?"

I was just asking this on Time Extension. 😬

Believe me, no matter how passionately and righteously our feelings about it, if the mainstream adopts cloud gaming and deems it "good enough" they will gaslight you over it after the fact, ad infinitum, and never see the light.

Re: Fox McCloud Blasts Into The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

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@zaneplay64

"I've never understood how people get mad at something being spoiled for them, when they are commenting on a site that reports on the very subject they want to avoid!"

if Nintendolife wants their regular users to avoid their site for months at a time, then they should take your comment to heart. 👍

Re: Fox McCloud Blasts Into The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

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I couldn't care less about this movie but if I did, I would be joining the chorus of people here rightfully calling out the massive spoiler. Still, one thing I cant stand is an organization clearly messing up and then telling it's own users "we are right, you are wrong," and employing bad faith arguments to support their mistake. So here we are.

You guys are well aware that you could've made the headline something like "You'll never guess who is joining the cast of the new Mario movie!" and then a vague thumbnail. You've ironically chosen rage bait over clickbait this time. the fact that "it's on social media" is no excuse, as others point out. If Nlife hadnt reported this, I'd never have known about it without watching the movie. Our fault for putting our faith in our favorite Nintendo News site, we suppose.

I might not care this time, but this isn't the first time this has happened, by a long shot.

To those saying this is nbd: clearly, this is a movie of mostly surprise cameos. there can't be much more to it than that. ✌️

One user might be wrong. If it's a whole bunch of people, you are wrong.