Timeshift is great. I’ve recovered from an rm -rf /* with it, just to see if I could. Turns out: yes.

Things have gotten harder for me! But that’s because the things I want to do with it get more interesting and complicated as my knowledge grows.

I don’t think that’s even true. He just had enough money that he could fail 99 times before succeeding once, and the return from that one was enough that he could fail 999 times before succeeding, and so on.
He just threw money around until enough other people succeeded in big enough ways, and then he claims credit.

There’s an episode where Brain gets incapacitated and Pinky takes over the world. Did I dream that?

That’s fucking cooooool

Well that looks absolutely excellent. I love the books.
I did not expect to be this excited about The Rise And Fall of Sanctuary Moon.

The first gym is rock, the second is water, the third is electric. Charmander has a really hard time in those first two matchups and only hits neutral in the third. At this stage of the game, it’s really difficult to fill out your types because the wild Pokémon are largely birds, bugs, and rats.
If you’re really lucky, you’ll hit the extremely low encounter rate for Pikachu in Viridian Forest, and if you’re even luckier, you’ll catch one. But that only helps you against Misty.

In contrast, Bulbasaur is super effective against the first two gyms, and is merely neutral against Lt. Surge and his electric mice.
And by that point you’ve fed two whole gyms full of trainers and gym leaders into your Bulbasaur (by virtue of not having to constantly rotate through your back line just to survive).
Which means it can both take a beating and lay a smackdown in what is on its face a “neutral matchup”.

After that point the game opens up dramatically and that initial advantage fades.

I’m lazy or I’d add a third row to the meme that has the turtles ushering a scaled-down copy of the second row into the distance.
Because, you know… It’s turtles all the way down.

Fell down an elevator shaft, landed on some bullets.

I’m an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.

Linus Torvalds, 2007-06-14

I’m leaving this with no edit so you can screenshot it later when they announce Mario Paint 3.

Oh. I think you’re wrong on that last point.
You can now (on June 5th) very easily play most PC games on the Switch 2.
Do you remember Halo Wars?
Do you remember Starcraft 64?
This was a clever cash grab, an attempt to tap into entire genres that just would not have translated otherwise.

OH SHIT I JUST REALIZED MARIO PAINT IS COMING BACK

C. S. Lewis standing there with his arms crossed

Doublahaj

Pinky succeeded the one time Brain was out of the way.
Also see: the Invader Zim apocrypha.

It was a perfect storm of unpatchable hardware exploit and games releasing in parallel on hardware that was already solved. We might be waiting a while on the Switch 2.

I’m about 50/50 on this being sarcasm. I’ll risk ruining the joke by saying:
It’s simulated 3D sound, meaning no special hardware is required. Youtube plus headphones would be a good demonstration.

That thumbnail

Ooh, thanks! I bought it.
Here’s a direct link to the bundle:
https://itch.io/b/2946/ttrpgs-for-trans-rights-ohio

I think you get demerits for using the word rule in the title correctly