guaranteed profitability by milking a captive audience

you ain’t wrong

you ain’t wrong

I loved that show. Still do.

One of the few times a kids show was wholly unafraid to age up with its audience, and Americans got shafted on that deal hard. Didn’t even realize what we missed out on until Toonami-era Cartoon Network.

I think he’s literally blue

dah boo dee dah boo dye

Bandai Namco is out here throwing every single dime they have at DBZ, and yet, we can’t get a port of Gundam EXVS 2 or SoulCalibur 7.

you got the important bit, that’s all that matters

I don’t think the system has the GPU power to emulate the NAOMI.

so I’m watching the latest episode of Scrubs only to recognize that the patient of the week is played by Michael Benyaer, and if he doesn’t look familiar to you fellow non-Canadians, if you were raised in the 90s, you’ll definitely know one of his most famous roles

“I’m sorry, that’s my fault.”

okay, enjoy handing prince bonesaw your money, I can’t make you smart

for the price of one console and three games, you could buy a MiSTer FPGA instead and it’ll play all 150 Neo Geo games right out of the box

always remember: only you can exit a fandom, they can’t ever truly make you leave if you refuse to

are you telling me that?

because I have a 90s era cab bash neo geo arcade cabinet with a MiSTer in it

I’ve also been emulating neo geo since NeoRageX on my Pentium 3 in 2000, so trust me, preaching to the choir

uhh

the method *does* matter

you must not know who you’re speaking to, hi, I’m yeet

I got one as part of a package deal with this, and uhh, it is everything I ever wanted in an emulation platform, save for CPS-3 and NAOMI support

WHY WOULD ANYONE WITH FIVE FUNCTIONING BRAIN CELLS PAY A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A SYSTEM AND TEN GAMES WHEN YOU COULD BUT A MISTER FPGA AND PLAY THE WHOLE GODDAMN 150 GAME NEO GEO LIBRARY FOE FREE RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX

new neo geo is $220, games are $70, you’re locked to an ecosystem

mister fpga is $500, works w/ every display type & usb input device imaginable

you can buy a new neo geo & 4 games for the same price you can buy 99.999% hardware accurate performance & play the whole neo geo library out of the box

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the new robo ky design looks like homeboy gonna start singing about how he hopes someone gets his message in a bottle

yeah except now you’d have to contend with giving 96.18% of whatever money you spent on SNK branded anything to a desert despot that loves ordering killings of journalists and keeping a construction crew staffed entirely with slave labor

I’ll go further than that: if the Dems find their way back into power, they’ll need to initiate the motherfucking purge on every single rat fuck that was involved with every facet of this shit. They would need to start going after the money men, too. And that’s why nothing will ever happen.

it’s like you showed up on cue

This person here, and many like them, are the reason why we cannot ever seem to have better things. They know this audience is the dominant revenue stream, and that they not only gleefully accept lesser, but they are utterly convinced that better is not only impossible, but entirely unnecessary.

Sir, the crayons are there to color the kids menu with, they are not appetizers. Stop eating them like they’re free breadsticks.

Andor.
Puss in Boots.
The Fallout TV series.
The Lord of the Rings films.
Jurassic Park.
No Country For Old Men.
Goodfellas.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Blade Runner.
Hell, the Dune movies are fairly decent.

Fuck, the original 1990 TMNT movie is downright fantastic.

But nah, why do that when you could totally give the pro wrestler the giant flat top, bro? Look, he’s throwing the fireball, bro, did you see that!? Bro! Look, bro! It’s the sound effects, bro! They said “PERFECT!” BROOOOO

some of y’all mfs will literally watch anything, stg

I know it’s possible. I know it’s doable. I know there’s real creative talent out there that, if given the resources, could make something that wasn’t content to be the equivalent of three hundred stitched sponsored TikToks in a row. But that’d require effort. Something to actually say. To *create.*