"Sega Unironically Hire This Man | Castle Super Beast Clips"

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So, as of this video here, this is the first time I've heard of the fan-game Sonic Smackdown. Haven't tried it yet, and I'm not sure I'm going to bother, because I'm just not really into fighting games all that much anymore, but it's still nice to hear that Sega is supportive of fan-projects, rather than being all Nintendo or Square-Enix or whoever about it.

Not so nice that they're trying to nickel-and-dime buyers for a collection of decades old games with their own shit, though.

Also, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood was released on September 25, 2008, which was a few days shy of one full year after BioWare was bought by Electronic Arts. So no, Pat, it was most assuredly not "BioWare during its good years when it was to be trusted." Those years immediately and forever died on October 11, 2007.

"On the Matter of the New Twitter Boss and Other Things"

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Mr. Scalzi is a bit more que será, será about this than I was, but to each their own, I guess. *shrug*

Also got some freeze peach disinformation distributors and/or Elon Musk fart sniffers and/or dumbfuck shitbags showing up in the comments under that article, who I'm a bit surprised Mr. Scalzi merely responded to (mockingly, granted), rather than full-on hitting them with The Mallet™, which kind of killed my interest to continue reading the comments under that article.

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Link (since I can post this here in my own blog, which I apparently can't do in a comment under the Whatever post [even though it showed up fine in the comment preview, as otherwise I would not have made the comment in the first place, or at least not in the same manner], which is a bit strange, since someone up-thread embedded a Youtube video in a comment, so why allow that, but not image embedding...?)

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"Contra How I Remember It - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)"

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"This is episode 202 of the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) and The Nerd is talking Contra! After years of playing nothing but crappy games, The Nerd's dreams are fulfilled through a wish on a monkey's paw, allowing him to finally play something good. Contra for NES is one of those games that everyone has nostalgia for and the AVGN is no different, so he's taking us back to the past to relive a series near and dear to his heart. While focusing on the original Nintendo Entertainment System classic and it's sequel Super C, The Nerd also checks out Contra Arcade, Operation C, Contra III: The Alien Wars, Contra: Hard Corps, Contra: Legacy of War, C The Contra Adventure, and Contra 4. -- Contra is a run-and-gun shooter game originally developed and published by Konami for arcades in 1987, before coming to homes on the NES in 1988. Also known as Gryzor and Probotector in some regions."

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I was never really all that into Contra. I mean, sure, I definitely played it, back in the days when my sister would take us (me and her daughter, my niece, who is only a few years younger than me) to Brewer's Movie Club every once in a while, and we'd rent a game or two for her NES. (I never owned a NES myself.) Never got very far back in those days, even with the Konami code. I've since beaten it, via PC emulators and save-states and all that, but that's not really the same, I guess. Also never owned or played the sequels on other systems (outside of maybe a few minutes on an emulator as, again, I just never really got into the series).

That said, I definitely acknowledge Contra as one of the formative games on the NES for many, alongside Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda and Metroid and Castlevania and Mega Man and the like.