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"Slopstream: The Old Console Wars"
Mar. 28th, 2025 04:45 pmSeveral things...
- "bRaVe FeNcEr Is At LeAsT bEtTeR tHaN zElDa 64." Yep, this is exactly what it was like back in the Console Wars™. Personally, I thought the whole thing was immensely stupid, even as a kid, because for the longest time all I had was the original gray brick Game Boy that I bought "myself" (with allowance money). I never had a NES or anything Atari or whatever. I absolutely knew what I was missing. And I didn't go around trying to claim that the fucking Game Boy was better than the Sega Game Gear or whatever. Even when I did finally get a SNES, years later, I was always trading it back and forth with my best friend in middle/high school, who had a Sega CDX. They were all cool. It mostly depended on what games you wanted to play, anyway. Just for RPGs alone, if you wanted to play Earthbound or Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger or Super Mario RPG or Secret of Mana or whatever, you needed Nintendo. If you wanted to play Vay (first RPG of any kind that I ever played) or Lunar or Shining Force or Phantasy Star or whatever, you needed Sega.
- Reggie claims that ZSNES is "the goat," but it was either ZSNES or SNES9x, depending on the game. Some SNES games just played better (or at all) in one or the other. I mostly just use RetroArch these days, though, as it basically combines just about all the old and newer emulators (among other things) into one client.
- I'm kinda feeling called out with that "Magus" bit. >_>; I still go by that shit now, let alone way back then. And, hey, at least I combined mine with another 90s edgelord character, and didn't just call myself "Dark Magus" or whatever. ¬_¬ Though my AFK nick in ye olde IRC dayes (i.e. the nick I would switch to when I wasn't actually paying attention to IRC all that much) used to be "Kage_Magus" (basically "Shadow Magus"), which was pretty damn close to that, admittedly.
- The fact that Woolie doesn't know what The Elder Scrolls: Redguard is should already tell him pretty much everything he needs to know about The Elder Scrolls: Redguard. *nods sagely*
- That one guy, keeping it fucking real. (Not the ALL CAPS masturbation guy, but the very last one, Ted, who they brought in on top of his shit.)
