This is true, according to Spec Ops: The Line.

“I don’t like the comment, so it’s spam!”

Yes, he’ll become a ghost ghost and the living guy will have to stab a knife with another knife, then use the ghost knife to stab the ghost gun and use the ghost ghost gun on the ghost ghost, and so an ad infinitum.

Dog: "Don’t look at me, I don’t like Trump!

Here’s hoping!

PBS and NPR rely on American federal funding, so I don’t expect them to last.

Nah, Edison actually invented things, even if he was a shitty person.

Expedition 33’s Composer Breaks Down

Oh no!

the Soundtrack

Oh, okay.

It might not be.

I don’t know when it was specifically, but I know it was to make a music CD for my old car that could play MP3s off of CDs. 15 years ago, maybe?

I dislike roguelikes and soulslikes. It feels like that cuts out the vast majority of indie games being made nowadays.

Yes, it is. It’s just offensive to refer to a person as such when it’s not in a scientific or formal context.

The loss of Reggie and Iwata are sorely felt. Nintendo is just run by generic corporate suits now, and it really shows.

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Also, I am a real human with soft human skin.

It didn’t come with one, no, but plenty are available and I use mine just like a Switch with no problems. From plenty of experience having to fiddle with running laptops on bigger screens, it shows when a device was made with seamless screen switching in mind. I don’t have experience with the other popular PC handhelds - are they as easy to swap between big screens and portable as the Switch or Steam Deck? My assumption is that they all have that in mind, but maybe they don’t.

Also, this was Canada.

“Quebec City” is a big clue, too.

I wouldn’t consider the GPD Win in the same category because it was not designed to easily switch between being hooked up to a big screen or used portably. It’s a palmtop computer with a controller embedded in it, not a hybrid. Being able to hook it up to a screen is an afterthought.

Hard to say for sure without seeing a timeline where Nintendo didn’t make a hybrid console and seeing if the Steam Deck and other PC handhelds still happened the same way. I’d be surprised if the success of the Switch had absolutely nothing to do with the Steam Deck’s creation, however.