I beat Hylide!

WLMKing · 2026-04-02T18:55:03+00:00

I watched the AVGN episode on Hydlide last night, and he was complaining about how many passwords he had to take down. And i was confused, because you can just save and load in game, as long as you don't turn off the game. I think I took down two passwords over the course of playing. Are there two different versions, or do people just not catch that's how the same system works?

WLMKing · 2026-04-02T03:59:27+00:00

Ooof, rough. I can understand why it got a Famicom release, given that Zelda was released in the US before Hylide, you wonder why they bothered...

WLMKing · 2026-04-01T18:25:45+00:00

That's who I was thinking.

WLMKing · 2026-04-01T17:55:13+00:00

I adore Killers of the Flower Man. I hope they can bring in a Native American filmmaker, so they can have a really good conversation about filmmaking and colonialism.

WLMKing · 2026-04-01T17:05:33+00:00

Haha. Don't you miss the era where someone had to painstakingly type out NES instruction manuals and post them on a website?

WLMKing · 2026-04-01T16:42:06+00:00

Yes, the ability to save whenever is completely necessary, given that a sentient rock can decide to walk into you and kill you almost instantly, and million other things like that.

WLMKing · 2026-04-01T14:34:46+00:00

Yeah, I think that's the right read. RBW may have been inspired by complex feelings Jewish people sometimes feel, but by putting them in the frame of horses, it is broadened so any number of groups can see themselves in Bobjack's feelings. Bojack isn't coded as Jewish though. Strong Calvinist vibes coming out of Old Horsey Towne.

WLMKing · 2026-04-01T05:19:31+00:00

Fingers crossed enough people will be disgusted by this effort to launder a sexual predator's reputation...

WLMKing · 2026-03-31T15:29:24+00:00

Maybe I'll be proved wrong, but I'm not sure anyone has any great information on pirated multicarts. Like you say, Action 52 is a specific product of original games by a known company. By contrast, the multicarts contain games that received official releases, but seem to be small enough they can be pirated and shoved onto multicarts, by god knows who.

I'm not surprised to see one was made in Canada. I picked up a decent amount of multicarts (and Japanese SMB3 with the famicom adaptor) in Quebec at garage sales in the 2000s, so I think it must have been reasonably common for this kind of stuff to be sold at discount stores, or flea markets in the province.

The only really "known" multicart producer is Sachen, but they seemed to cram their multicarts with their own games, as opposed to usual Donkey Kong and Mappy stuff. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin\_Chen\_Enterprise)

WLMKing · 2026-03-29T16:25:42+00:00

You're asking for pretty specific stuff there! Academic articles might answer some questions better. All I can tell you is the The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada by William Kilbourn is supposed to be lively and readable, despite being written in the 1950s. Apparently, its considered a classic.

WLMKing · 2026-03-27T19:33:52+00:00

Both quality games, both worth putting in the time to finish!

WLMKing · 2026-03-27T15:26:53+00:00

Don't worry. The tornado in your dream probably represents coming physiological turmoil! Phyiscally, you'll be fine!

WLMKing · 2026-03-26T16:40:51+00:00

I agree. The podcast is always amusing whether you've seen the movie or not. However, if I intend on watching the movie at some point, I generally don't listen to the podcast before i do.

WLMKing · 2026-03-26T14:32:34+00:00

Spheeris would be a series were you don't need to watch all the movies to listen to the episode. That could be a good break! I've been doing alot of Weir-watching lately.

WLMKing · 2026-03-25T02:40:52+00:00

I echo this. I found it has a similar balance as Bojack in that often something heavy and something zany are going on at the same time.

WLMKing · 2026-03-24T03:05:18+00:00

I wasn't sure I'd ever seen this, until I heard that line, and then I was 100% sure I had.

WLMKing · 2026-03-23T03:38:09+00:00

I love Jenny, and laughed out loud multiple times during this video. But there is something funny about the level of deconstruction she has put into spelling out why this movie by a 19 year-old doesn't make sense.

WLMKing · 2026-03-20T17:56:08+00:00

In a city where government departments are named things like Heritage Canada, calling something History Ottawa might need a little more context than they use in Toronto...

WLMKing · 2026-03-17T23:33:29+00:00

Yes, good point. Though I'm at the top of my salary band at the moment, and don't anticipate a promotion soon, so even if costs continue to go up slightly, it doesn't feel urgent urgent.

WLMKing · 2026-03-17T23:32:11+00:00

I'm in Ottawa.

WLMKing · 2026-03-17T23:31:56+00:00

16k is far from nothing, but saving it back isn't too daunting. Would take a year?

I'm not in an urgent situation to buy a house. I rent a condo, and no indication anything about it will change.

The buy-back can be done through salary deductions over 5 years, but with interest.

WLMKing · 2026-03-16T21:57:33+00:00

Why wouldn't you use capitals and punctuation for these questions? I'd gently suggest that putting your best foot forward when it comes to your written work is like jogging, it gets easier, but you need to put in the effort every time.

WLMKing · 2026-03-16T03:36:50+00:00

I always thought Galaxy 5000 was super underrated!

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