Just got my first issue of @gameinformer.com in the mail today. So cool!

This Donkey Kong Bananza advertising is everywhere.

Two young girls watching Elmo. Elmo is centered in screen. He is not smiling.

A crowd watches a message from Big Brother, as depicted in George Orwell's dystopic novel "1984." Big Brother is centered on the screen. He is not smiling. (this image comes from the famous 1984 Apple commercial).

Donkey Kong Bananza gets better and better the further you go along.
If you find the first couple levels underwhelming, keep at it.
After all, the audience is all ages. They ramp things up slow because kids will be playing.

Fun joining the Mario kart world room with the @dannydinosauryt.bsky.social livestream.

Here he is talking about the importance of community and, as he's reflecting, I rudely sneak past him & nab first place in knockout tour.

Check out his stream sometime. He also made BoTW vids back in the day.

My wife told someone to "Hit the R2" button in Mario Kart.

Painful.
It's ZR. And, in this house, we can tolerate "RT" (right trigger) but L2? Just another reminder of her decadent PlayStation past.

So sorry to comment on a tangentially related (& good! ) post but do you have a link to the piece where you recommend people NOT write their own wedding vows?
Was that you? If I remember correctly you even provided very good, (for lack of a good term) traditional but non-patriarchal vows examples.

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At a Preaching conference.

There is a 21 year old pastor here.

He was very offensive to me.

He told me the year he was born.

It was the year Finding Nemo, Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean came out in theaters.

The linear passage of time is a conspiracy against me, personally.

GQ introduced Kojima to Letterboxed. It's over for you, bros.

Oh my goodness thank you Nintendo.

Nintendo has entered the world of accessibility settings.
I have played four Yakuza games. All on Xbox. And despite being fine in every other game with Nintendo controller controls, I am struggling.

Nintendo now lets you remap buttons and save different profiles.

I got Yakuza 0 director's cut for switch 2.

I have only played Yakuza on Xbox.

...the face button differences don't usually throw me but I just got the WORST score on the Karoake mini game.

1 thing about the online age which isn't as fun is updates.

1996: you bring home a Nintendo 64. You plug it in. WOW Mario is in THREE DEE.

2025: you bring home a Nintendo switch 2. You plug it in. Connect to the internet. Mandatory update. Download your game. Estimated download time... 1 HR 45 M.

Q&A: Stanley Hauerwas on Alasdair MacIntyre - Christianity Today A conversation about the late moral philosopher’s life, work, and wit.

Theologian Stanley Hauerwas remembers philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s life, work, and wit:

It is concerning I see two main modes of life advocated

-endless consumption, self soothing

- "grindset"

An article sidebar lists performance and quality modes.

I mow my lawn. It's not long. But some beds of flowers have weeds and are overgrown.
It's not that I don't care.
It's that I value reading a book and taking my daughter to the park on a day off more than doing those chores.
And I value paying for her daycare more than paying someone to do yard work.

I for one like Nintendo switch 2 has friends only twitch streaming style party chat.

The world would be better if people watched streamers less and played with their friends more.

Churches and theologians did a lot wrong in that period, but —if I am looking for examples —the discipline of theology I studied has much more striking examples in standing up to fascism than what I am seeing offered by people who publish a piece in the New York Times, cash a check, and run.

I studied Barth (kicked out of Nazi Germany for not pledging loyalty to the Fuhrer) and Bonhoeffer (went back to Germany, knowing full well it could end badly for him. It did. He was murdered).

It's going to take a lot more for academics to impress me.

I find professors who say "We study fascism, and we're leaving the US" contemptible.

You truly believe the US is heading to a very bad place. Let's grant that. So you ... go to Canada to a cushy tenure track job?

Part of a reddit comment from SoupTheFifth: "I wish NIntendo did not go so hard with voice chat."

The specs for the switch 2 released and people are upset with how many of the resources are reserved for the OS, with speculation that it's for the new "Gamechat" feature.

Leading to this never-before-uttered sentence:

This is not why anyone cares about this game, but Doom the Dark Ages has the best large text and easy-to-magnify features of any recent game I've played.

Some of us don't sit at a desk 12 inches from a monitor.
I sit all the way across the living room.
It's helpful!

Whenever Sci-fi bashes its head against the reality matter & energy are not all there are, stories have a character talk about how there must be something beyond the measurements of science or the dogmas of religion & it's always just... Ecstatic union with the living God to which the dogmas refer.

F-Zero 99 is really fun! How did I miss this before now ?!

There is some quote from an Anglican source saying something like "Parishes who have languished under poor preaching, have often been sustained by the ministry of their lectors" but OFC I can't find it.

Anyone know that source?

I'm currently stuck because of my own skill issue

Oh... Yeah the battle system gets way more involved.

Wait until you get party members.

Are you leveling up your skill tree and your passives?

I have a slight right index finger injury from pressing the parry button too hard and often on expedition 33.