Ah cool haven’t seen this one, thanks!

Yes! I loved it

I’ve been building my all time favorite 100 list but my number 1 has been constantly Casino Royale. The list: https://boxd.it/jQWau

I usually don’t have a specific genre of choice but I love to dig into micro genres for a stretch. Lately my favorite micro genre is “people in a room talking”. The obvious ones here are 12 Angry Men, Rear Window and My Dinner with Andre. Long Days Journey into Night, Buried, Locke, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Rope , Tape. “Before” series works well here too. A really good one I saw recently was Big Kahuna.

This also pairs well with tiny budget Sci-Fi. Like Man from Earth, Coherence, Another Earth, Moon, Vast of Night.

What’s your favorite social security number?

Apparently Minions Rise of Gru was the second one, I had just assumed it was the first. Didn’t realize there was one just called Minions.

Sounds like they’re actively working on getting the US version to work

It’s not. Here’s a google sheet maintained by the decomp community with relavent links.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P7OFb-yYIl1WSDr3tTtJF6MgKXKtkRv3jwY-Zt6zRUo/edit?gid=0#gid=0

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Here’s a bunch more https://github.com/n64decomp

This is awesome, one of my absolute favorite N64 games and it’s always had mixed results with emulation (it’s probably fine now, haven’t tried in a while). This is the first game to really give me the feeling of a huge world adventure and the possibilities games could have. Looks like the English translation is still on the upcoming features so I’ll probably wait on that till diving in. They also have Ray tracing on the road map. Curious what that would look like.

Yes but the point you’re trying to get across is this is a huge amount of effort when it’s really trivial.

How is 2 minutes with a chat bot half of someone’s life?

Yea but it works out to $87 (Canadian) for 6 different nights of meals for 2 people. Delivered to my door. I suspect their angle is using this to just keep you from churning at a loss in hopes of just keeping you around in case you go back to paying regular price. The amount of meat, vegetables and dairy in the box along with cost of shipping and paying people to assemble this order, the cost has to be damn near $87 if not a little over.

I mean, I’m choosing to use this service. If it felt unfair I’d just buy the groceries myself. They’re not a charity, you’re getting a premium service and there are costs associated with this. I don’t think it’s priced unfairly to begin with, it falls somewhere between buying your own groceries and getting takeout. The value is saving me time figuring out recipes, gathering the ingredients and getting a different meal every night, this is the value you pay for. I don’t know why people expect these companies to just give this service away.

Yup. Not sure why Costner expected not just one but four traditional Westerns to work in 2024. I don’t remember the last time we had a big successful western in theaters. Django Unchained maybe?

I get one of those meal kit delivery services. Every few weeks I’ll go to their AI customer support and ask for cancellation and it’ll give me discounts on upcoming orders. I keep the service at about 40% off at all times. Also when there’s a problem with the order the chat bot just tosses me a discount. Cases like this are perfect for AI customer service.

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Wow this blew up in a weird way. Just to be clear on a few points:

With the discount I pay $87 Canadian which is $76 untaxed or about $55usd. I also pay for this service using gift cards from Costco that are 20% off ($100 for $80) bringing that $55 weekly cost down to about $44. For 6 different dinners for me and my wife delivered to my front door every Monday. With crazy grocery prices where I live I cannot come close to beating that without giving up something. I won’t eat the same thing every night (Sunday meal prep bros, don’t at me), I don’t want to expend the mental energy gathering recipes and ingredients but I do enjoy cooking a lot. It’s something at the end of the day I can do with my hands free of screens. At regular price this was worth it to me, at 40% off it’s actually saving me money. If they’re still making money shipping this big box off food to me on a weekly basis, then good for them, we’re both coming out on top.

It goes it goes it goes

Me and my wife loved the X-Men show in the 90s. We loaded it up (the original, not the new one) and got about 10 mins in before turning it off.

My dad’s Pixel 5 has some mad burn in. You can see the circles from his home screen icons across other apps. I’ve never had this happen personally, not sure how it happened to his.

I’ve actually been going a lot more. When you go to a smaller movie that’s been out for a week you basically have the place to yourself. My small local theater recently replaced all the seating with recliners which is a real treat. I’ve really come to appreciate just sitting in a dark room free of distractions (kids jumping around their room before bed, a dog that wants over and under the blankets constantly, my wife’s phone). The theater is my little getaway.

Really though, who burns Blu rays. Yes I’m sure there’s a handful of people out there doing it but I don’t know anyone who’s still burning discs in 2024. Storage space is large and cheap now and way less hassle than discs. Companies as big as Sony can’t keep producing products for a tiny market it just doesn’t make sense.

I mean, you’re 40 now (or close to it). A lot of your nostalgia is also wrapped up in being 5. I too was an 80s kid but if the market hadn’t changed your reaction would. You probably aren’t sitting under a blanket learning the names in Dave the Diver. You have an income now so you probably wouldn’t just wait till your parents bought you Hades 2. You’re probably not running around with your friends right now pretending to be Helldivers. Games have changed but so have you. The Indie market is carrying the torch of these bygone days. A lot of the stuff you want wouldn’t have the same impact on you today. I am however watching my own children glom into game characters. My daughter loves Mario and Mega Man without going to Blockbuster to rent the cartridges.

(Btw madden 95 does work on the SNES classic, they’re pretty easy to jail break and fill with your own ROMs)