This was my third time through it. The first time I fell for the lies, second time was after I read about that slide jump and I tried all game long to break it all as hard as possible. Maybe context isn't the only thing that made this run special, maybe it's that I can finally bring that same balance of mastery and whim-following that I have with Super, where sequence breaking doesn't even feel like I'm resisting anymore.

The last Metroid is in the finished pile. My replay spree is complete.

Dread was so much better than I remembered, I think precisely because I replayed the whole series in a row. No longer is it its own thing compared against my favorite individual Metroids, now it's a series finale tonally and mechanically paying off what the past three games have been setting up.

Now I have to avoid the genre until the new one comes out so I'm not sick of it then.

Running through 2D Metroids in release order, up to Samus Returns right now. It's weirdly a lot more fun now than I had when it was the newest game. I've been avoiding it since Dread came out and was just it but more and better but it turns out there's something to be said for its relative simplicity. I find myself doing riskier and less efficient things I used to avoid because I feel so unthreatened now and feeling cool is more of an option.

Myself with a bad haircut I didn't remember getting.

Confirm being on the right is more retro, though. Nintendo is the way they are because they didn’t change. Surely it makes sense for a retro handheld to use retro controls?

I’m having a fun time reading about color science and then a murder suicide out of freaking nowhere and then it’s right back to fun color talk two sentences later as if nothing happened.

I saw a guy around reddit for a while who was convinced he could functionally cure colorblindness via stereoscopic vision (for people playing video games with VR). He reasoned that if each eye is seeing a different color in the same place then observers can train themselves to see that hybrid as a new color instead of an unstable blob of both. As time went on, though, he seemed to grow more and more obsessed with the idea of himself as a functional tetrachromat, and the accessibility feature of it all took on the character of a happy side benefit to his pursuit of personal chromatic dominance.

I kind of hoped I would see him pop up in the article, as silly as his version of “new color” was. With no information of what ultimately became of his project, I’m forced to assume he crossed paths with a natural tetrachromat and destroyed his research so that she could never use it to surpass his ultimate color vision.

Back to the article, though, I myself am an anomalous trichromat which means I have some potentially exciting news for my mother about her own eyes.

An author’s life becomes a metaphor but she’s not literate enough to recognize it.

I’ve just been doing it because alliums taste good. So in that sense you have been cooking wrong.

Koopa is Bowser. That’s his name in the original Japanese and we used to call him that internationally as well. If you had been a fan when the movie came out you’d have mostly played games and watched cartoons where his name was Koopa.

And what do you mean it wasn’t endorsed by Nintendo? Nothing that’s in the movie is there without their explicit permission. The studio literally asked permission to make it dystopian cyberpunk and got the okay. They put their faith in the movie industry to turn out a good movie. That may have been a hilarious mistake but it was Nintendo’s mistake.

My answer is Battleship. It was a bad idea to even try.

Arguments over whether Goku would beat Superman in a fight.

If your free time is required to be spent optimally then you aren’t experiencing the actual freedom of it. If what you want to do is nothing then do nothing.

There was Troll before it, actually. 2 isn’t really a sequel to 1 in terms of creative intent but it was titled as such for marketing purposes because the rights owners figured a movie with no plot connections that didn’t even have a troll in it was still close enough.