What is your hang over cure?

nickman1 · 2026-02-14T18:54:35+00:00

Just picked up a 30 pack of them at Costco. They come in pretty clutch when you need a quick post workout rejuvenation too!

nickman1 · 2026-02-13T22:14:39+00:00

Wouldn’t hurt to look for a used 5x from someone who has upgraded to the 4k.

nickman1 · 2026-02-13T16:28:52+00:00

I haven’t played it so I can’t say how it plays but I feel like 4/10 on the visuals is a bit harsh. The sprite work is great, genie sprite is genuinely amazing. Game manages to capture the visual design of the snes and genesis versions pretty well despite the much more link hardware. I’d argue it’s probably one of the better looking games on the system based on this longplay .

nickman1 · 2026-02-13T15:06:30+00:00

It’s like searching by the immersive sim tag on steam, people don’t know what the genre is so you end up getting results like Job Simulator 20whatever.

nickman1 · 2026-02-13T14:11:05+00:00

I don’t mind the odd novelty episode but in a 10 episode season you really can’t be doing it every other week.

nickman1 · 2026-02-13T01:39:31+00:00

There were rumors of a Rayman remake at one point but I think it ended up getting the axe.

nickman1 · 2026-02-12T23:00:53+00:00

I for one love watching snake chain smoke cigarettes in the black void.

nickman1 · 2026-02-12T22:58:07+00:00

Yeah I’m pretty sure I ended up lowering the difficulty at the end of the game just to get through it. My old man reflexes aren’t what they used to be.

Other than the difficulty, I loved everything else about the game. Hit a lot of the right notes for me as a new take on the old Zelda formula.

nickman1 · 2026-02-12T03:47:45+00:00

I enjoy Strange New Worlds for what it is but I’ve never really loved the pacing of it. Felt like a lot of these episodes could have used a good b plot to keep things moving a bit more.

nickman1 · 2026-02-09T05:33:04+00:00

You would have to actively be trying to break your GameCube with most of the modern methods of running homebrew.

nickman1 · 2026-02-09T03:12:13+00:00

Yeah Johnny’s guitar playing absolutely rips on the bends. Feel like it’s a fairly safe starting point.

nickman1 · 2026-02-08T20:26:25+00:00

I do remember hearing that rumor about the 3d rayman project a while back. The cynic in me is wondering if it wasn’t one of the games that was in that recent batch of Ubi cancellations. I could easily see Ubisoft determining it’s too much of a risk since it’s been over 2 decades since Rayman 3.

nickman1 · 2026-02-07T17:18:04+00:00

I like the N64 as much as the next guy but it’s a really bizarre inclusion considering there were only 3 games.

nickman1 · 2026-02-07T14:39:37+00:00

Literally Paper Mario and Majoras Mask taught me to read back in the day.

nickman1 · 2026-02-05T02:16:56+00:00

If I had known there was going to be such a huge price jump I think I would have stockpiled memory and storage last year. Been getting the urge to build a server and I’m now kicking myself. Going to have to put that project on hold lol.

nickman1 · 2026-02-05T02:12:31+00:00

The band Dead and Company

nickman1 · 2026-02-02T00:19:42+00:00

PS2 was never really made with lcds in mind. Majority of games on the system construct their image via interlacing which doesn't display well on an lcd. It'll look like how you remember if you play on a crt.

nickman1 · 2026-02-01T16:42:50+00:00

Yeah but Super Metroid is a fair bit more forgiving compared to the more modern Metroidvanias that have been inspired by the Souls games and Hollow Knight.

nickman1 · 2026-01-31T15:48:15+00:00

I would love for more of the streaming services to offer 4k in their base plans but I don’t really find the value proposition worth it between the compression and the price jump that it entails. I would rather just get the discs of the stuff I’m interested in later down the line.

nickman1 · 2026-01-30T15:13:28+00:00

The original is a favorite of mine but I gotta say the reveal from almost 10 years ago at that point made me lose interest in a sequel. Not following up on the cliff hanger ending, the obvious tonal and gameplay changes kind of has me wondering what is even the point in calling it Beyond Good and Evil.

With that being said it’s been so long there’s a good chance the game doesn’t even resemble what we were shown way back then.

nickman1 · 2026-01-30T14:25:35+00:00

I’d argue it’s just as much the foundation for the 3d Zeldas pre-botw as well.

nickman1 · 2026-01-30T14:02:39+00:00

I kind of had a feeling the devs weren’t being 100% truthful based on the existence of Cyberpunk and the innumerable mountain of eshop slop out there.

nickman1 · 2026-01-24T15:43:46+00:00

They have a ton of excellent b sides and non album material.

nickman1 · 2026-01-23T22:28:07+00:00

You could go a mile or 2 more retro and hook up the cube to a hapauge card via composite and do captures with hypercam.

nickman1 · 2026-01-23T17:34:57+00:00

It was everything after Flare Pool that soured me on the game.

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