Speed limit is plenty clear, it’s just that it’s become lexicalized. People no longer process it as the combination of the words “speed” and “limit”, but as one unit “speed limit” that doesn’t in fact mean speed + limit but means a collection of associations they have with the term “speed limit”, including the idea that it’s a suggested speed that it is acceptable to go slower or faster than. “Limit” in no other context is a suggestion that it’s totally fine to exceed. Swap any other term in for it and it will momentarily surprise people, but in a matter of years they’ll build all the same associations and forget what the “max” was supposed to mean.

Also, are you really suggesting to replace all speed limit signs across America? That seems like a poor allocation of funds to me

Or esoteric fitness equipment for hobbyists 

me when i skip all the dialogue and optional collectibles then get to Myrmidon’s fight and am confused about who Zanzibart is or why Myrmidon wants forgiveness (it’s spelled out pretty clearly if you just read the dialogue and lore text)

honestly kinda a snafu

I think it was instituted to discourage certain types of shovelware. The restriction is automatically lifted once the game hits certain thresholds on revenue, etc. 

The Ori games cite Meatboy as an inspiration, and I liked them a lot. Metroidvanias with more focus on platforming than combat. 

The modern Donkey Kong Country games by Retro Studios are also great, although they are pretty dissimilar to Celeste. Celeste and Meatboy both take a “precision platformer” approach with short levels, unlimited lives, quick respawns, and less traditional enemies, while DKC is more traditional/like Mario with longer, less precise stages and Goomba-like enemies. But I liked them a lot, despite not liking the Mario games I’ve tried nearly as much, and imo they’re worth a shot. They’re a lot more expensive, but if you already have a Wii or 3DS for Returns or Wii U for Tropical Freeze you can find them used for indie game prices

A lot of them are faithful in the sense that they attend Church, share its social values, believe in God and the afterlife, and won’t publicly besmirch the Q15, but not in the sense that they believe the party line on the finer details. My dad is a scientist (not in the social sciences, but still) and when, as a child, I brought up things like two Cumorahs or the Firmament as an explanation for global flood, he was like “don’t focus on that stuff, it’s not the point.” I get the sense he wouldn’t be too bothered with the BoM being ahistorical (though I don’t think he’s come to that conclusion yet). 

aka OP being smug about their ideology—it’s in the name

More giant space rabbit trouble?

If you have a Switch Pro controller or PS4/5 controller, yes… asterisk. It doesn’t work great in every game. If a game doesn’t officially support gyro, Steam can emulate mouse input from gyro input. Some games refuse to accept simultaneous mouse and controller inputs, so they don’t work great. But the Steam release of DOOM (2016) for example, I played with gyro and the only issue is the map screen rotating and making a noise for small gyro movements (it’s rotation is controlled with the mouse). All of the Valve-released shooter-adjacent games work pretty much flawlessly with it

A previous botting tool was called Rosnehook. Presumably this is a successor

Post launch support is not the same as not being money hungry when your game includes extensive microtransactions, so I wouldn’t count Ninja Kiwi

Pretty sure earlier games had context sensitive buttons. Off the top of my head, Mario 64 from two years earlier has each button do something different based on Mario’s state and whether he’s in front of a sign. Hell, Mario 1 on the NES has B shoot fireballs when in fire flower in addition to running, that’s arguably a contextual button use. OoT may be the first game to have the buttons displayed on the HUD to explain what each will do based on the current context

ngl the joever pfp is kinda funny

based consequentialism

Yeah it’s like… sure, my parents will talk to the nonmembers in the ward boundaries, but they’re never invited to events. even the events that aren’t church-related and wouldn’t be co-opted into a “missionary moment”. (or they could—and this is an idea—invite them to a non-Jesus focused church-organized event and not evangelize! there’s nothing stopping them!) I’m good friends with some of them now and they feel rather left out—when you’re in Utah, you may well end up quietly neglected by nearly the entire neighborhood 

even if Spidey was right, i kinda don’t fucking care. $100 to PP once is still a tangible good in the world, and refusing to engage with conservatives online is also great. who cares if he gets some attention from it or not

I do kinda agree with you, but I’m doubtful Nintendo will actually do it. Maybe there won’t be another Smash game just because Sakurai is done and nigh irreplaceable, but another Mario Kart just feels like easy money if they do it right

True of my second sentence, but not my first

Sure, we have some new Mario iconography, but is that enough of a hook for a full new game? Each previous Mario Kart game has had a hook. Mario Kart. Mario Kart in real 3d. Mario Kart on the go. With two drivers and special items. In the arcades. On the go but not as compromised as Super Circuit. With bikes, trick jumps, and half pipes. With gliding and underwater driving. With antigravity. On your phone.

I’m sure Nintendo could release a Mario Kart that’s mostly just 8 again but with 16 new tracks drawing from new places in the Mario franchise, but anything that’s more or less just 8 again runs into the issue of feeling like a lesser game if it has any less content than 8. And since 8 has had 8 waves of DLC across 2 console generations, it’s hard to beat on content. You’re competing with 96 tracks, the series’ definitive character roster, and tons of wacky and fun kart parts. No way MK9 has more than 96 tracks on launch. And if the Switch 2 has backwards compatibility, MK8 and 9 will be in direct competition with each other. Are the 60 million people who already own MK8 gonna fork over $60–actually, let’s not kid ourselves—$70 for a lesser game when the new system already plays the cool one?

They have a feature to filter out “periods of off-topic review activity” that’s on by default. And even when there’s review-bomby stuff in the reviews, I’ve never had much trouble personally filtering through it to find the reviews actually about the gameplay

Link doesn’t have a vow of silence in the open air Zelda games. In the horseback riding memory and the diary in her room in Hyrule castle in BotW, Zelda relays things Link said, presumably audibly, to her. Also the player gets to select dialogue for Link which only makes sense if Link is saying the dialogue aloud

“thing bad so no other thing could be worse” typa mindset

important cities *in the 1800s when these conventions were solidifying. i’m a west coast best coast boy myself but you can’t deny that the east coast was the heart of the nation for quite some time after it was founded