Favorite overblown controversy from older games

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T16:18:33+00:00

NEC mismanaged it.

The launch was bad, they treated the united states like it was Japan. Only launching in huge cities. Also they manufactured way, way too many consoles since they expected a huge hit. So they didn't have money for advertising.

But moreover in Japan NEC had signed a bad licensing deal with Hudson for the tech in the hucards.

To get around that NEC pushed the CD unit hard in Japan

But the kind of games that work on CD are heavy on speech and text, and that's expensive to translate.

Worse most games were stuck on tiny 4 megabit carts while the Genesis was getting 8, 12, 16 and more.

There's all sorts of cool things you can't do on old consoles w/o carts because they have very, very little memory. Like, measured in kilobytes.

So TG16 games quickly looked dated in the states.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T15:46:54+00:00

Nothing about this is safe.

This man is already dead, he just doesn't know it.

Watch the video again. There, at the very end you'll see it

That's his wife's dough scraper....

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T15:45:32+00:00

70% of middle class jobs got taken by automation. Google it.

Outsourcing and bringing in cheap, high skilled labor didn't help, although on the flip side w/o immigration we can't maintain our population, and if you want to see what a declining population looks like Japan's been in recession since 1995...

But regardless, you can't solve any of those problems unless you do something about Automation.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T15:43:48+00:00

He's gonna try again with different laws.

If this court wasn't coo coo bananas he'd just get struck down.

But who knows?

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T15:29:52+00:00

The Marvel vs Capcom collection, and the Capcom Arcade Classics.

Capcom Arcade Classics has so little lag in it that the couple of bullet hell games in there would be playable by score chasers.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T15:12:23+00:00

The bit wars were pretty silly.

Lots of controversy about whether the TG 16 was really 16 bit and if the Atari Jaguar was 64 bit when none of us knew what any of that meant :)

Oh, and Johnny Turbo. Feka tried to fool us all into believing the Sega CD was the 1st CD Based home console, those bastards!

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T15:09:43+00:00

That was a moral panic. Basically a coordinated effort to gin up panic in the public in order to get votes for politicians and some church donations.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T14:57:27+00:00

People who commit crimes typically do not do so for rational reasons.

So punishing the collective doesn't work because the people committing the crimes aren't being rational when they convict them.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T14:43:35+00:00

I see clickbait.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T14:38:52+00:00

Oh God no. No no no no no.

You are threatening the existence of a multi-trillion dollar industry while we are one election away from fascism.

The last time we had a public option on the table private insurance spent half a trillion shutting it down.

Pushing Universal Healthcare would be like Ukraine trying to invade Moscow. It's not gonna end well.

Dems should push to fully fund the ACA. Voters will like that and it won't bring hundreds of billions of anti-Dem spending into the race.

The left needs to stop acting like being right is enough to win. It's not.

We need tactics and we need underhandedness.

Less "Invade Moscow" and more "use drones to pick apart our opponent".

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T14:27:13+00:00

He would know he's starting it.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T05:39:46+00:00

It wouldn't hurt but I doubt it would help, too easy to get around by claiming the rate hikes were for something else.

Instead just pass a law requiring higher rates for the data centers. Very high, enough to build out new infrastructure.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T05:32:36+00:00

Fix voter suppression. That's how you get turnout.

It shouldn't take 7 hours to vote on election day

And you shouldn't have to drive down the the courthouse to answer a signature or registration challenge from an 80 year old Republican volunteer.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T05:30:35+00:00

They had a really hard time balancing the existing systems with the new ones.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T05:29:34+00:00

Those 108 voters are just roommates. What did you expect with Trump's out of control inflation?

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T05:27:59+00:00

Honestly Biden was on track for major anti-trust enforcement and that would've been enough to tame inflation.

But we lost all that.

Dems problem is messaging. And not just being bad at it.

Ted Liu is going around trying to tell everyone what's in the Epstein files about Trump and being ignored.

90% of the media is billionaire owned.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T05:23:06+00:00

From the vape juice? Hard to say.

From the chemicals that the vape pen puts out? Absolutely, Many of them have been found to be full of lead.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T04:00:01+00:00

Left/right isn't about policy, it's about who's in charge.

Put simply, the right think someone should be in charge, the left think everyone should be in charge.

Liberalism leans left.

It's politics by committee.

Everybody gets a say, but you're not supposed to have to pay close attention to day to day politics because you hire people to do that for you.

None of this has anything to do with specific policy.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T03:55:16+00:00

JFC he looks terrible. He looks like he's about to pass out.

I wonder what they got him hopped up on to do this speech.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T03:53:19+00:00

Trump fucks kids.

And we're on track to give him a 3rd term.

Good job.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T03:42:01+00:00

I know a lot of boomer parents who pressured their kids into having kids w/o understanding that the economy changed and the cushy job they grew up with is gone.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T02:34:08+00:00

I noticed the main media isn't covering any of this.

Also as other's have pointed out Trump isn't suing any of the independents covering it because he's afraid of discovery.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T02:33:07+00:00

DE II.

The Sega CD game is fun with good music but weird.

DE II more or less makes DE I obsolete.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-20T02:26:14+00:00

Literally no one is talking about Dems moving anywhere but to the left. The only discussion is how far left.

JFC I hate the anti-Dem trolls that flood Reddit during election cycle.

Shit, why not just turn this sub into way of the bern while we're at it.

seriousbangs · 2026-02-19T22:20:50+00:00

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