Dude, if you think I’ve played Pokemon since red/blue, or I’m fanboying here, I’m glad to be part of your strawman because it’s delusional.

I mean…

I’m glad there are so many Pokemon, and that Pokemon were not unique enough for the most part to be trademarked, but if you think they didn’t lift very heavily from a single source you’re fooling yourself and making flippant accusations of your straw-manned opposition.

Also I’m questioning if it was actually “way better” or just edgier for the memes that games would latch onto and vehemently defend. It seems to have been very successful in the latter even if it wasn’t their intent.

I can see supplies extending longer than they thought with their refurbishing program being as popular as it is (they don’t stay in stock very long)

I’m sorry, you don’t see phobias in the right wing?

It’s proven right wing individuals have more active fear trigger regions of the brain.

Building a wall and shutting down the border, letting people die of dehydration in the desert, are policies from the left wing?

What about a steam deck?

I do believe there’s a happy medium between out-casting and electing, probably even a large amount of medium space.

But that’s not what you get in a first past the post system.

Or you need to identify those who aren’t behaving properly (sickness or other resource intense disability) and should be outcast from the group (something we don’t need to do today, but the right wing narrative insists that need to do)

Was going to say this is a good refresher on o-chem. Such a stupid meme.

It’s not the shared root system tree in North America? I could totally see it being a mushroom.

Where are you getting 1600p screens that are 9 inches diagonal?

And what hardware are you using that puts 1600p into a 9 inch screen? Sounds a lot like overkill, or bigger numbers for the sake of having bigger numbers.

I’ve never had resolution complaints on my handheld screen. There’s been scaling troubles and other graphics shortcomings, but resolution has never been a problem, how close are you holding the deck to your face?

That’s a shame, my favorite way of gaming on the deck (outside of some console port games) is Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, I play 4x and grand strategy games, along with many games that are “have not been tested for the deck”. This new thing looks like it would be a huge pain because you’re either going to have to play it while looking down at it on a hard surface, or you’re going to be imparting motion on the device every time you try to use the keys (or the keys will be so soft that they’re prone to sticking/errant inputs).

My only trouble with Bluetooth m+kb on the deck is some games refuse to acknowledge you’re not using the controls, and will pop up the keyboard interface every time a text entry box is opened, that’s annoying but most games don’t force that.

It can be passed from mammary glands? That’s… Oh it must be on the skin and getting mixed into the product…

I worked with a guy who claimed to only their scissors, true to his word ever time I saw it, but I suspect when there was something he really wanted he was ready to pull out the paper, it’s a clever ruse if you can get people believing for long enough

… I may have 3am brain, but the intercept is y=b…

Slope intercept formula???

That’s a formula for a line, y intercept is x=0…

Oooooorrrrrr, this is fucked, that’s fucked everything if fucked and nobody is paying any attention. Just because it’s beautiful doesn’t mean it isn’t fucked, we’re all fucked.

Hades and disco Elysium are both incredible experiences. Hades when you’re feeling reflexive on point and rogue lite with a hell of a story and development, disco Elysium when you want a long story driven narrative branching and repeatable.

If you want another game, with equally great story, on the entirely opposite end of replayability and gameplay (and equally highly regarded by most critics) add return of the obra dinn to your list, it also works great on the deck!

Tossing out other deck favorites here, (sorted by length of name as it appears on my phone screen, because duck it why not)

Hades

Griftlands

Dead cells

No man’s sky

Monster train

Hollow Knight

Disco Elysium

Dave the diver

Wizard of legend

Backpack battles

Hero of the arena

Vampire survivors

Skul the hero Slayer

All of these I’ve sunk dozens of hours into on the deck

I like the term “single stick shooter”

Ours went from the po(bro)tatoe machine to the backpack (battles) machine. I’m thinking about getting a 2nd (3rd, already got my mom one of her own) so I can use it some times.