Ashley

Only tangentially related but when I was at Game you had to answer the phone with some kind of promo (new game, offer, preorder etc) and back in 2006 I got used to saying "Good morning thanks for calling Game [location] where you can now preorder Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training on the Nintendo DS, Ashley speaking how may I help" because it really threw everyone. Look at what they're giving up!

It won't be for some weeks (I'm going on holiday on Wednesday) but at some point it would be good to give Mario Party a go. Used to love those when I was younger but now all my friends live abroad 😭

Are the images for the last two posts not working for anyone else?

A Metroid and Mario RPG bundle Is £50 at Currys: https://www.currys.co.uk/products/nintendo-metroid-dread-and-super-mario-rpg-bundle-10265950.html

The spoiler button is broken, it's on my list. Although if you find an existing one you can copy and paste and that'll work.

Quiet you

Thanks. Think it was Peach I was thinking of.

I might spin it into a thread about the US election. For good or for ill, it'll be big over the next few months.

What's the crossover with Starfy and a Nintendo franchise? Is it the same developers, does Kirby appear in one or something? I know there's some factoid like that but can't recall what.

You're not alone in this mentality but why?

I know it's from a different thing but it's just reminded me of this which is the opposite of sadness:

Would you?

Wet barbeques, people drinking in the park with their top off and teenagers hanging around in town.

I remember really loving those games.

The idea isn't one I'm necessarily opposed to, but it depends how heavily weighted it is towards that. If the single player is a mere afterthought I'd be disappointed.

I had to check too because I felt the same. We're unintentionally being gaslit by @Cube

It's on NSO

He asked for a Coke mask and they said "is Pepsi okay?" and it was.

I'm confused by this. So it's not full width but when there's no sidebar the space is used up with extra width for the posts? So when there's no sidebar it's not 100% but like 90%? Is that what you're saying?

I can have a look on my laptop (certain parts of the admin area just don't display on mobile) but I'm curious how big is your display? General design principle is that text shouldn't be full width anyway so in theory the sidebar should help that. Although I do see you point regarding the consistency.

You joke but I did once have to tell a colleague 4 is greater than 2. In terms of only two tags displaying I may be able to change that but obviously don't want to have too many. But maybe we just tag "Switch" and "the great unwashed".

I guess it could be a case by case basis and probably wouldn't apply to remakes anyway.

Thanks for a long and considered reply which I will respond to fully in turn but guess a few quick points for now. I am sure the "other gaming" forum is positioned where it is not by some kind of othering design, just history/things moving around etc. But I see your point and perhaps it would flow better under Nintendo gaming. As to indie games I think people are just gun-shy about creating new threads and I've never figured out why. We've tried to be more heavy handed in the past about not relying on huge threads but people seem to naturally gravitate to having fewer threads to check. Related, I've considered before now if we need a pre-release and post-release thread for things because sometimes by the time the game/console is out we're dozens of pages deep. Obviously managing that both from an admin and logistic point is difficult as people end up with copies before the release date so when do you define that cut off. I'm happy to have flexible rules when it comes to moving threads (although obviously that makes it more complicated). If a title gets announced without consoles, or without Switch confirmed, but later gets it announced prior to launch shift it over to Nintendo. If it eventually comes to Nintendo, like the example you gave, just give it it's own thread. We could always make use of the pinned post feature to include a link to the original and that way it will show up at the top of each page. Some people may want to go and see the historic discussions, others may prefer a fresh start. And obviously it gets complicated that there are normally differences between the versions too.

That's a good idea. I know we don't currently use tags often (and sometimes they're joke tags) but we could make more active use out of them.