When this conversation comes up it's always good to take a look back at good ol' Lenny

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Well, it kinda says what the honour criteria is in the summary "that have enjoyed popularity over a sustained period and have exerted influence on the video game industry or on popular culture and society in general"

There's no doubt in my mind that FF7 fits the bill, heck I bet there's somebody cosplaying Cloud right now somewhere in the world. There are a lot of great games (FF6 among them) but there are some that stick out more than others.

Obviously "Hall of Fame" type organizations are strange in that they seek to honour stuff that quite frankly is already pretty well known, so the accolade rings somewhat hollow. Then there's almost always drama about inductees and sometimes even the order they are inducted. But at least we got an article on what appears to be a slow news day.

ALSO I don't think I've ever seen a post disappear before in real time but there were two anon posts when I first read this article, one was already modded -1 but now its gone (whatever it was, I didn't read it). Weird.

I call it immaterial design, thousands of controls and options that all do nothing.

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Back then the advertising was obvious and obnoxious but it was on a website with content.

Now the site you use is a sophisticated, often gamified means of collecting your most intimate details so they can sell that information to advertisers (or other agents interested in demographic information...) Ad networks pay for a slot on every site you visit so they can gather even more creepy information about you while also shoving their highly targeted ads in yo face.

Monkey Punching I could ignore, having to reciprocate social expectations like joining TwitterBook or FaceTagram and being datamined up the wazoo is a lot more difficult to avoid.

Apologize. To. The Car.

If I didn't use a drawing tablet every other day I think I might use a pen/pencil maybe four times a year??

When you use a stylus of any kind a lot you build up your hand as well as just learn to write and draw some things almost as a reflex. When diagramming on whiteboards or making scratch notes coworkers almost always comment on how neat and orderly it is - but like I say most people don't wrap their hands around any kind of writing utensil for months so I chalk it up to experience.

I guess they've phased out cursive writing in schools (I don't know, getting this second hand), I can't say I'm surprised if that's true.

Does anyone use cursive anymore?

Can only be traded for Flanian Pobble Beads (but at a very good exchange)

Our crystals start blinking at 45 and we proceed to Carousel...

When my Wii crapped out it was about 3 months after the Wii U launch, rather than buy another Wii I decided to invest in the new console with the expectation that I'd be able to keep playing my Wii games and pick from the selection of new games for the Wii U...

New titles were few and very far between, titles that were expected to drop in or around launch ended up taking far longer to get out the door or were just outright cancelled. There was hardly any 3rd party support and the online experiences it offered were fairly weak.

The only titles that really stood out were Splatoon and Mario Maker both released near the end of life of the console.

The Switch on the other hand has so far done everything right, the first year saw two absolutely colossal hit games drop from Nintendo as well as ports or sequels of Wii U games that were pretty good. On top of that there's been far more 3rd party support, with some fairly big titles getting ported over. The eShop has a good selection however the pricing is unbelievable (in most cases it's actually cheaper to just buy the physical cartridge) nothing really off the wall there except they DO have a good selection of games. And that's what it comes down to, buy this thing and there's a library of games to play right off the bat. The Wii-U was a solid system but the trickle of games was inexcusable and in my opinion the real killer.

Of course Nintendo hasn't launched it's online services (or the pricing model) yet so who knows how that will impact the future...

Is it because it's so entrenched in Windows 10? It wouldn't surprise me.

Are you telling me Bonzi isn't my Buddy?

Pretty much. I know a couple of devs who found creative uses for it on PC.

For the most part I was ambivalent toward it until it became an inseparable part of the already disastrous XBox One launch platform. They practically handed Sony market share. I think the hate for it mushroomed after that point (to be fair the seeds were already planted between gamers who enjoy sitting motionless versus any kind of motion control.)

Microsoft is a frustrating company to follow around, they sometimes come up with brilliant ideas and then utterly demolish them through incompetence.

Also the bus gets cleaned at least once a day, if your AIUber arrives with only puke in it you're lucky.

I love Utopian shit, what a future we could have if filthy humans weren't filthy humans.

I got my Telus mobility bill just a couple days ago, it's just a few cents shy of $90 for a 1 GB data plan. I get about 300 minutes of call time (which I don't think I've ever gotten close to using) and unlimited texting nationwide (whoop de doo).

I'm really thinking about going back to a dumb phone, or at least scrapping the data plan. 99% of the time I'm on WiFi anyway.