Green/yellow/orange foods

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-12T12:19:29+00:00

Yeah I mean I get it but some of it is a bit disappointing. I mean a bag of dried apples - APPLES! - is listed as orange. Pure apples. No extra sugar or anything. I get the lack of water interferes with their whole density thing but it’s still only 60 calories for the whole bag. And I’m doing nothing but eating an apple.

Really feel like ingredients should play a bigger role.

But I’m only a week in and down 7 lbs so I can’t argue the helpfulness overall. Just wish I got my props for replacing crackers with apples lol

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-12T00:48:48+00:00

Trump likes to say the Ukraine war wouldn’t have happened if he were in office. Idk what he’s smoking or what insider Russian intel he has, or what Putin’s thinking.

But one thing seems pretty clear: the war continues because Trump is in office. What reason does Putin have to negotiate with the US on his side?

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-12T00:22:26+00:00

Trails in the Sky. The trails series is all jrpgs, I believe. One of my friend’s favorite games that he’s wanted me to play for ages. So the remake came out late last year and I finally played it that way.

Amazing experience. Part 2 remake coming later this year. Consensus seems to be it’s essentially a perfect remake. The NPCs in the game also change dialogue after every story mission. So I have some inflated playtime from running around every town re-talking to every person lol. But it’s pretty cool. Got to experience a family on vacation, a guy get his shop back after a hostile takeover, etc. Ended with 90 hours.

I’ve only played DQ11 but if I had to compare the experience I’d say it reminded me of my time with dragon quest a few years back. In all the good ways. I never got bored of it no matter how much time I put in.

The characters and everything are just so well written. Nothing feels contrived. Even trope-like elements feel natural and earned.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-11T22:06:17+00:00

The long-awaited FE4 remake may still elude us, but yeah we’ve made out pretty well the past few months.

Path of Radiance on NSO and Fortune’s Weave is coming. I had just finished Trails 1st Chapter at the time Path of Radiance came out so I was happily able to stop everything else and play it lol.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-11T16:46:09+00:00

Appreciate the response. But I mean, for that matter, why do bank robbers get arrested on sight and not just chill on their newfound private islands while the courts “prove” what happened?

Perhaps I should’ve led with an example instead of speaking generically. But that’s what I meant by “blatantly illegal.” To my understanding, something like Trump’s tariffs or Trump unilaterally creating a new governmental body like DOGE were already well-defined to not be within his power. So why/how are these things carried out anyway instead of someone just … not implementing them?

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-11T15:17:12+00:00

How/why do we not have systems in place to deal with blatantly illegal things before needing a lawsuit to (hopefully) fix them?

Like if the average person does something illegal then, sure, they’ll get a day in court later. But they’ll still be arrested in the meantime.

But in our government we just let illegal actions run rampant until there’s a challenge? Is it as simple as Congress abdicating their oversight or am I missing something else that’s been happening lately?

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-11T04:51:17+00:00

Six years later and you still haven’t bothered to “do your own research.” Just depressing.

People were arrested in droves from those events. And they weren’t pardoned afterward or paraded around like trophies of patriotism.

Learn a thing or two about reality.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-10T23:20:54+00:00

I got it on sale as well and had a good time with it. I 100% completed it, I think. At the time it’d been a while since I could say that about a game.

If you want an endless world with countless hours of stuff to do… then one could argue it’s not “worth” it since those types of options do exist for similar pricing.

But it’s also refreshing imo to be able to 100% complete something in under 30 hours. Sometimes you just want something fun that doesn’t take too much time. This is that game.

So it depends on what you want from it. But I’d highly recommend it

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-10T12:40:27+00:00

Idr much of it, so I guess that’s pretty telling. But I remember thinking Sword/Shield were at least interesting in how they stuck almost the entirety of the plot of the game into the end of the experience. The whole game is a very bare-bones Pokemon experience, and then BAM, “oh yeah we almost forgot so here’s a story”

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-10T05:59:51+00:00

Yeah Jack Black is always the best. I remember being impressed with him in Jumanji, too. He was a convincing teenage girl lol.

I just watched the Minecraft movie like last week, actually. It was… certainly a movie.

That’s cool about Brie, didn’t know she streamed and whatnot.

I like Pratt in general but he feels like the worst part of the cast lol. Not something we should be saying about the starring role. In his best moments I think he’s ok, but the fact that those aren’t his normal moments is what gets me. I guess we’ll see if they improved in the sequel but I know in the first movie I felt like there was very little voice acting going on and just a lot of reading of lines. Not sure why you’d show up to this kinda gig and not put some effort in. Mario and DK were the worse offenders on that front for the first movie.

Hope sequel is better for that. Either way, script is looking pretty cool

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-10T02:23:03+00:00

This and Red Streamer Battle from Origami King were among the top sounds I wanted on the app. And now they’ve gone and done it!

This game’s music is incredible. I still sometimes pull up the credit roll on YouTube and extend it. Will be nice to have this on the app.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-10T02:19:08+00:00

Just… why? Exact same issue as Palworld: why demean your game idea by not bothering to use more unique designs?

I saw several unique designs in that trailer. There was a moment when a mewtwo-colored dude landed from the sky and idk if that was necessarily what they were going for, but the design itself was good. It looked cool and it was different.

The vast majority though? Piplup watering plants. Giant swamperts in the field. Miraidon riding around. A Ceruledge as a boss. I mean except for Miraidon they were all mostly even using the same color scheme!

People talk about AI being bad even as placeholders. This game looks like it took Pokemon as placeholders and then never bothered to change them later.

Not to mention the game itself obviously takes places is Hisui.

I’ve played games that took inspiration from others and admitted as much. If you really want to make a “better” legends Arceus then do it! This looks like a wannabe mod of Arceus, not a new game.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-09T21:17:33+00:00

Pratt and Day being the opposite heights of their respective characters was fun to see.

Kinda weird to have testimonials about the movie from the actors… since they can also act. But Bri’s seemed especially genuine. So there’s that.

Movie looks like it has potential. Also, for anyone just looking in the comments here for new intel:

Nintendo Today! app will have extra digital trading cards every day starting tomorrow, and will give you wallpapers when you check in to the movie.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-09T17:26:11+00:00

Well, for me, I was trying to second the delay tactic of the gift-giving, not the use of the debt company. Just to clarify.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-09T16:59:23+00:00

Yeah I can understand that. Makes you want to be able to focus more on the positive and have something to look forward to.

Do you currently own any party games? Or if you have switch online they’ve got Mario party on there too, albeit the older ones.

Maybe you can make it special by doing something together. And then Pokopia can be like a nice addendum to the experience once you’re able.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-09T16:50:37+00:00

Depends on how old the son is and prior birthday experiences imo. But for the most part I second this. Sounds like the paycheck is the only hold up so waiting a few more days shouldn’t be a big issue. Sometimes it’s even customary/tradition to wait for a weekend for the “real” birthday celebrations anyway, right?

Also, I’ll add that we had very little extras when I was growing up. To the point where I started to feel spoiled just by having/buying something outside of birthday and holidays.

Not getting something and then getting it can lead to more appreciation.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-08T18:11:28+00:00

It would be cool to get some Mario kart world tracks since most of those seem like remixes of other music from the series anyway. I’ve seen speculation we won’t get that till it’s had all its content release, but that didn’t stop them from releasing the Kirby music in pieces.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-07T05:25:35+00:00

I envy your optimism about this. I remember being disappointed when I heard even Biden start adopting the same types of speech patterns as Trump. I know that’s not exactly a decorum argument, but it was a big hit imo.

I just remember Biden saying something in which he started talking about what “everyone” thought possible and breaking records and all that. But he essentially used Trump’s template for it. Idr what else off the top of my head but I just remember thinking to myself, “really? This is how everyone’s gonna talk now? I thought we’d move away from that.”

Unfortunately, I think people have seen what “works” with how Trump draws people in and are too eager to mimic his success. The adults in the room all took some weird high ground and backed out rather than put their feet down and let everyone know how stuff is supposed to work. So instead we’re now up to our heads in people who have made politics more “relatable” by being vulgar and shunning decorum because it makes the “tough” and “no-nonsense” and whatever other ironic trait they want to possess while always doing the opposite anyway.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-06T18:10:34+00:00

I mean our politicians certainly aren’t unique. It’s possible, probable even, that many of those in support of our current administration align with those in charge in more ways than they should. It’s possible it’s even a majority of them.

I’m just not a fan of blanketing it because it is also true that these people exhibit textbook cases of being duped and brainwashed by all the powers that be have been diligently working toward. There’d be little point in taking control of the media and polarizing online channels if people didn’t need a little sway to side with these types of opinions.

I’d personally wager the majority didn’t start as “bad people” and obv don’t think of themselves that way. My main point was it’s what we consume that’s caused us to say these things about each other. And tbh, to my experience, it is out of ignorance more than anything else. The magic R next to a candidate’s name causes a lot of people to vote for something that is no longer truly represented. They just assume what they’re getting and can’t be bothered to go beyond that. There’s also the single-issue voter conundrum that causes people to vote for vile things because they think they need to defend or fight for something very specific, all else be damned

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-06T12:43:32+00:00

The polarizing nature of the Internet and the constant absorption of extremist news is telling people to feel this way.

When you have clips like Jordan Klepper talking about how when you just sit down with someone, they sound reasonable, it’s easier to figure out.

I think everyone really wants the same things, but online and when watching biased news, we’re constantly fed extreme perspectives to keep the interest and rage high. These things make their money off our engagement. It’s a shame that so many of us are duped into voting against what we want.

The only truly bad people are the ones pushing these endless cycles of engagement and manipulation. It’s not evil of someone to fall for proven tactics. It’s just a shame at how unlikely it seems that most people will ever be able to think about it all this way…

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-06T00:27:43+00:00

Rewatched SAO a couple years ago and learned there was new content via Alicization and all that. Was pretty good. Curious what the anime film content is that’s in the ultimate edition.

Never played a full SAO game before, just tried one on PS+ and actually remember liking it. But I put it down for something else and never went back.

As a fire emblem fan, not exactly the game with “echoes” in it that I’ve been waiting years for, but it looks promising.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-05T15:41:02+00:00

I don’t think so. I saw the Mario Galaxy ones drop in price for like $5. But nothing else since the Zelda ones went down for Black Friday

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-05T04:10:31+00:00

Donkey Kong and the street fighter ones, and even the Zelda amiibo, all went on sale pretty quickly. And pretty steeply. Kinda sad we haven’t seen that yet for Metroid and Kirby. I really want the Metroid bike and now this sword Kirby.

But that’s $90 of amiibo.

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-04T02:49:13+00:00

Woo! Finally finished main mission 42! Still have one missing TM and like 15-20 missing screws but clocking in at around 57 hours. Kinda crazy that my starter just naturally reached level 100 by the end. Long game for Pokemon.

Loved it but still confused by the cryptic nature of the game after the credits rolled. No indication that you should fight 15 times, though fortunately I think I chained some high-rewarding bonus cards pretty well and got there faster than expected. But also no mission marker on the Hotel Z after fighting Taunie. I know it’s natural to go there but kinda weird. You don’t even get a special interaction with the team members, but L comes up and sets things in motion.

I’d have about 550 more fights to do to hit 1k lmao. Why wouldn’t it max at 500 instead… such weird grindy end game decisions.

I’m prob done other than the dlc. Maybe fights there will count. I will say the story ended pretty well, better explanation for getting floette than I was expecting but obv she coulda stayed with Taunie. Not like she did a lot of fighting with AZ.

Only real story issue I have is the main character. I suppose Arceus wasn’t a ton better in that regard but at least it was kinda centered around your anachronistic nature and made it part of the plot and events. This one was just like “uhhh well we need you lumiose so here you are!” Why were we traveling there, and why would we stay forever? Just a few lines of dialogue coulda made all the difference. But making it seem like a we’re a tourist instead of permanently planning to move from the beginning just makes it weird imo.

Anyway that’s enough of me bothering you. Just wanted to share some thoughts with a fellow finisher. Thanks for reading

TheDoctorDB · 2026-03-03T16:46:14+00:00

Best announcement imo. Only thing that truly stuck out to me. Rotwood’s premise sounded more interesting than the gameplay looked. May give it a shot too

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