This is the tricky part of representation, and it goes beyond just Barbie here. How do you represent an autistic character without just having them turn to the camera and tell the audience, “I, [character name], am officially and canonically autistic”? That often feels ham-fisted and shallow, pandering even, but anything less than that and you’ll have endless debates over whether a character that could be read as autistic-coded but never explicitly says it out loud counts or not.

Don’t ever be fooled into thinking corporations are your friend, or that anything they do doesn’t have selfish motives behind it. But we can acknowledge that being seen as a profitable demographic worth marketing to is… something. It is a sign of social progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnrLOug3u6s

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End is pretty much THE peak of the last decade or so. And now’s the perfect time to catch up with season two premiering in a few days.

Apocalypse Hotel for AOTY 2025. If I can convince you to just take my word and go into this one blind I think you’ll enjoy it even more.

If you liked Bocchi and Spy x Family and want more goofball comedies, try Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Dungeon Meshi, and CITY: The Animation.

Watched This Monster Wants to Eat Me. Started off very strong, the premise had me hooked, but it sorta felt like too many episodes were going by with no real development. S1 ending felt kinda anticlimactic, and it sounds like I’ll be waiting a while for any kind of resolution.

Active users are what matter. Dormant accounts aren’t doing anything.

Miyamoto says: If the player is not locked into a succession of inescapable and slowly plodding text boxes where they’re offered neither choices nor agency, it must mean they’re not sufficiently engaged!

What Miyamoto game is this describing? If anything I’d say he’s got a reputation for being anti-text.

Did you have a modded console? Without modification, the 10NES lockout chip prevents PAL cartridges from running on NTSC or vice versa. But it is possible to disable the chip to get around this.

The real point here is that they don’t have the ability to manufacture at the scale of the big three. It literally can’t be in direct competition.

I don’t think that’s had much of an impact when Nintendo sold more Switch 2s at launch than Valve has manufactured Steam Decks over its entire lifespan. The Steam Deck is still an enthusiast product for a niche crowd, and will likely never be in direct competition with the big three.

NES and SNES were region-locked. In addition to an actual lockout chip, they even had different cartridge shapes so you couldn’t physically fit Famicom or Super Famicom games.

Handhelds were not (until DSi and 3DS), but I specifically said home consoles.

It’s early and there aren’t a lot of heavy hitters yet. But for me, Kirby Air Riders alone was well worth it, I waited 22 years for this sequel and it delivered.

That was always the case for Nintendo’s home consoles, not like it was a new thing that started with the Wii. Switch was the first one to be region-free.

I’d already been on the microblogging side of Fedi for about a year prior, but the first time I saw Lemmy I thought it wasn’t really there yet, no critical mass. Then the API debacle happened and I decided to try out Kbin, later Mbin. Never looked back, even if this place can’t actually replace the kinds of niche communities I used Reddit for, I still refuse to go back to Reddit on principle.

• AI bubble doesn’t dramatically pop in the way people might be expecting, but much of the tech industry will become more and more of a disaster over time. Especially the job market. But they’ll keep insisting everything is normal and this isn’t a pop.
• Linux marketshare rises a full percentage point.
• A major assassination of a billionaire or politician. A much bigger incident than Brian Thompson or Charlie Kirk. With how much more venomous the political climate keeps becoming, I expect violence to escalate into something this severe.
• No consequences whatsoever for Donald Trump. Given his health there’s a small possibility he just dies though, but that’s the only possible way he ever leaves office.
• Frieren season 2 will be peak, and it’ll be the one little bit of joy to keep me going just a little longer.

These seem a little pointless when you can barely only see color under the analog stick. Unless you detach them from the console, but even then don’t they want you to reattach them to the grip thingies?

I’m in favor of IP law reform, but you’re going after the wrong targets. Complaining about rereleases won’t get new legislation passed.

1. Akagi
2. Bocchi the Rock!
3. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
4. Azumanga Daioh
5. Apocalypse Hotel

So then what do you want?

Gray cartridges run in GB mode. The GBC can apply some limited colorization, the firmware has a database of game IDs to apply specific palettes to, or you can select one manually with a button combo on startup.

Black cartridges are dual mode, they’ll run in GB mode on original hardware or GBC mode on a GBC.

Translucent green cartridges are GBC-only. If you try to boot them on an original GB you’ll get an error screen telling you this game is only for GBC.