Maryokutai

I have little doubts about Zelda, but Link might be the make or break character, not necessarily related to his looks, but how they portray him, considering he's a blank slate and every player has their own version of the character in their head. The costumes look promising, slightly worn, so they don't give off the impression of a cosplay convention. The colours make it look somewhere between big production and fan movie at the moment, but with the final cut so far off so is the final colour grading, so that can still change. I'm neither hyped nor cautious about this at the moment, just interesting to see how it turns out. If I'm still alive in May 2027, that is, that's so far away still.

Signalis came out on everything as well. I'm not overly familiar with the genre, but looking at the stuff I'm usually interested in, even if only 2% are PC-only, it can sometimes feel frustrating if of those 2% one game looks like it's right up your alley. I think that's ultimately the biggest advantage of the platform, that outside of Nintendo's output and a small section of Sony's, you pretty much have access to everything.

Yeah, every time a news story about Roblox breaks (most of them negative) I always realise just how many other videogame bubbles are out there that I'm not even remotely partaking in. Regarding backwards compatibility on the Steam Machine, it remains to be seen how seamless that works. From what I understand immediate controller support upon launching in big picture picture mode is rarely a guarantee for games that predate the PS4 generation, and having to plug in a mouse and keyboard to navigate a menu before starting could turn some people away. I certainly wouldn't want to do that on the regular. In terms of the library it's of course way beyond any console can offer if you're willing to get a bit more PC-centric about it than just treating the box as a 'console'.

Absolutely not watching any of that, but it's nice to see people being positive about it. I hope the bike stuff proves me wrong and works fine, but in any case I think this might surprise some people as to how good it is, considering Retro has been absent for over a decade now.

Isn't that the opposite of the Turing test considering you went into it knowing it's AI and wanting it to disprove itself? But keep the doors locked. Now that they know that you can undo them, you're the first on the Terminators hit list.

Unlike these other companies who throw everything under the bus to make good quarterly numbers I think they're playing the long game here. There's only so many people you can reach on PC with Steam and they're likely close to what the peak is there, so slowly introducing other options that are more appealing to the console-centric audience is a good way of enlarging the Steam bubble over time. And them not going all-out on a mainstream device designed to compete with a PS5 is sensible, too, because that could backfire immensely if it didn't hit as they would like to. My tiny console brain also just put 2 and 2 together and I realised that should I get one of those (very price dependent) I'd actually get better performance out of it than promoted considering I'd be using it on a 1080p screen. That's one benefit I don't have on consoles – a quality mode targeting 4K that runs poorly will always run poorly no matter the display resolution.

I watched the first half of DF's video and I'm a bit surprised it's lagging behind PS5 and Series X in terms of specs. You'd assume a gaming box releasing in 2026 would outperform, even if only marginally, systems released in 2020, especially as Valve can likely eat a couple of bucks per system, not unlike classic consoles with their walled gardens (I highly doubt that a lot of people would pick this up and exclusively use the Epic Game Store on it, for example). This makes it a bit less attractive to me because I was mostly looking at this from the point of view of it replacing my Xbox at some point. On the other hand, if it is competitively priced (say lower than the Steam Deck) it might still have its place as a cheap alternative to get access to some of Sony's games and those PC-exclusive indies I've glanced at enviously from time to time.

Damn, Mario is super toxic. Rosalina looks great, not quite convinced yet about Bowser Jr.'s voice. Will probably be a fun time to kill 90 minutes like the first one, hopefully with more proper Mario tunes instead of chart hits.

Yeah, that's a cute box. Except for the controller, only a mother could love that one. Definitely interested in this. Not going to say this is a sure purchase but depending on hardware power and price point, maybe. Wouldn't want to be at Microsoft right now though. Edit: I wonder if this'll finally be the time and they're going to release this alongside HL3.

I find the whole concept behind it a bit nonsensical because it's this Disneyland amusement park kind of attraction where you splash people with water and let them sniff Adam Sandler's farts for a more 'immersive' experience that in my opinion achieves exactly the opposite, because constantly getting rocked around on my chair and having fans blow wind in my face is the definition of a distraction, not immersion. And that's without even mentioning the potential amount of noise other people are going to make in a showing like that. Sorry, rant over, and I actually have no answer to your questions. But if you're interested I'd suggest maybe giving it a try with a movie you don't care about because for the reasons mentioned I expect it to ruin it for you. Maybe even perpetually because on later viewings you might go 'oh, this was the scene where they shot water in my face'.

If you're not put off by used controllers, let me know if you want mine. It's practically new (used it for ten hours at max) and I wouldn't charge you 90 bucks for it.

You can make a 3 by cutting an 8 in half vertically. And a 1 is, of course, just a mirrored upside-down version of an L, which not only is the starting letter for Life, but also the 12th letter in the albhabet, and the cross sum of 12 is 3 as well. Basically confirmed in other words.

Alient: Earth has been renewed for a second season: https://deadline.com/2025/11/alien-earth-renewed-season-2-noah-hawley-reups-fx-deal-1236614596/ I think some its problems will likely persist as they are inherently linked to the vision they have for this, but others, like some writing choices, could possible be adressed. Not that it matters too much because they start filming sometime next year so we likely look at a release date in 2028 by which point I will have forgotten all of it.

My left thumb hurts when using it and it's so small my fingers sometimes touch at the back while playing, so that's a couple of easy reasons to hate it. But it's a subjective point of course. It's not quite like the Xbox pad, the grip handles on that are angled significantly wider, which makes it more comfortable to hold for me.

One thing about it that irrationally bothers me is how much I hate the new Pro Controller but how little the system seems new when using an old controller. Other than that I think it's a solid, if maybe unexciting piece of hardware that is let down by a lot of policies surrounding it.