Ashley

I've got Prime, Netflix and Disney+. After really shitty service from Amazon over Christmas I'm getting rid of that because I can't remember the last time they hit next day delivery. I did recently watch Upload and given my monthly renewal was yesterday and I didn't realise I'll check out the new Donald Glover Mr and Mrs Smith when it drops next month, but the fact they're shoving adverts in there makes me want to leave more. Might get rid of Disney+ too once I check that my nieces aren't using it.

This is Nintendo though. Once the Switch successor is out they could pull something like this on us again:

I can. I'll give it a try tomorrow on my laptop. And will test it out first because on more than one occasion I've accidentally done it the wrong way round 😅

Maybe everyone needs to just be more of a morning person? I've not done anything yet as I'm away for a few days, but does seem to suggest it's a server thing (or at least out of our hands). Will try and keep an eye on what visitor numbers are like during slow and not slow times as that could potentially be an issue.

Hmm can't say I've noticed anything particularly bad but I can ask @Shorty if he's aware of any issues on the server side

I've just thought of an amazing April Fools article that will probably equally make people laugh and piss them off...

I didn't even bother listening to the beat or anything, I just put a finger over each button and fixed my gaze at the bottom corner of the screen and just followed that.

I did the tutorial yesterday and it kept telling me I was bad so I looked online to see if I'm making a mistake and they said it does that. Did the actual race and it was fine.

Oh yeah I don't care about how people actually pronounce it (I'm a big proponent of the fact that language is something all people have power over and they should), just kept hearing it and it always stands out so I thought I'd ask what others say. The same way if I read something like "Nintendo have..." it stands out to me because technically it's grammatically incorrect so it pricks my ear but you do you. And I know it wasn't your main point but I think ASAP is a rare example where it's pronounced as an initialisation and acronym, although I think acronym is more common. Just something I thought about while reading. And my point about the Q is it forms a harsh uncommon sound at the end of the word. The Q and K sounds are different, particularly the softer K sound that is usually used at the end of words ("quick"). I know it's one word, but it's one word for stylisation purposes. I always just end up pronouncing these separately ("reset era") but maybe that's just a me thing. Regarding "official" ways of saying things I refer you back to my point about the creator of GIFs. And also, Twitter.

You should have mimed it out while transforming into the characters as a homage.

Do people say "facks" for just FAQs? I've never heard anyone say it that way. Whereas ROM has become an acronym. If there wasn't the O I'm sure it would be an initialisation because it would just be awkward to pronounce, which I think is my problem with "facks" because a Q should be followed by a U, not a 's'. "Facks" just sounds clunky. But yeah I'd say "nez" and "snez" because the vowel helps it. If Nintendo had called it the Nintendo Famicom System in the West I would be saying "N-F-S" not "nifs".

Pivot to right wing punditry in 3,2...

Me looking at this as someone that doesn't follow YouTubers:

Oh no I got that, but I didn't know where to find the items to just take. Unless I did need to press the shoulder buttons? Oh well, it's moot now anyway

Oh I saw that but didn't know where the items were. But yeah I used Thought Peek on my first attempt (the only thing he did before he died) so I built up FP and just spammed him with that. Thankfully the Toad random thing was an attack too which lopped off some health.

Is this difficult early on or am I rubbish? Back at the castle and died on my first attempt with the pogo stick/sword boss. I'll go again later but had enough anyway but Mallow is basically useless at this point and I've still not seemed to have mastered the defensive A button press so he dies after like 2 hits. Plus the shop keeper is cowering so I can't even buy anything. Edit Went and levelled up for a bit and used a different strategy and barely took any damage.

They're turning the classic sitcom into a RPG?!

The rule of thumb has been "current consoles here, old consoles in Retro" but then looking at the description of this forum it says "Talk about Nintendo's consoles and their games here, including the Nintendo Switch, Wii U & 3DS." which may need updating a bit! But yeah perhaps move but you can leave one of those redirect things for a week or so in order to make people aware it exists in Retro.

I hate to admin an admin but we do have a retro forum...

Hmm so looking at last year I didn't really have any. I mentioned travelling but that was more a plan (which happened) than a resolution. Also wanted to bulk up and actually I've kind of ended up doing the opposite. January 1st I weight 71.5kg and today I'm at 66.3kg. Travelling did make me lose about 5kg because when you can't control your food intake its hard for a veggie to get sufficient protein and my muscle mass was the first to go. Ended up spending the latter half of the year doing a recomp of sorts. Anyway, 2024! Next year is going to be a transitionary year for me. Decided I want to travel again in 2025 and look to move somewhere. I thought getting back from travelling I'd have gotten it out of my system and look to settle down (given I've basically spent the last 20 years constantly moving from one thing to the next) but nah, don't want to be here. I'm going back to my old job on a one year contract to save some more money and to give myself time to get my career in a better position to freelance. I came back from travelling and did PTing for a while and the idea was to do freelance web design alongside it but need to build up a portfolio still. Got some projects under my belt, just need some time to get my ducks in a row. My loose goals for the year are: Save about 50-60% of that salary Become more structured in my language learning (still figuring out how exactly but it has definitely slipped off lately) To bulk (yes, its a repeat) To get in a better position so that at the end of the year I can begin freelancing properly (develop new skills, sort out portfolio, sort out the business side of it etc)

Day later than promised but I've had a look and it seems that is all down to IPS (who make the forums) and looking on their support forum it's not available and little call for it. It may happen, but doesn't seem like it would be anytime soon sorry.

I'll look into it tomorrow and see if it can be done

Presumably the name will change to Streets of Rage Wii before its released?

"Make friends, increase your fans, and create a movement" Is this Jet Set Radio or Only Fans?