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Announced during the direct with more details to come later. Video isn't available on YouTube yet. Will update this post when it is. Thanks @Julius!

There is! And Mario RPG remade!

Didn't expect Nintendo to have so little faith in the game

That looks like horse shit. Putting a load of screaming influencers in a room doesn't help sell it either. Although I do wonder if this means it won't even be shown during tomorrow's direct.

Or we have confirmation Switch 2 is backwards compatible.

Presumably we'll see a trailer for Everybody 1-2 Switch because it's due out soon but it'll be amusing if it was released with no publicity information.

Interesting titbit suggesting either the new console is due by the end of 2024 (or so), or they just expected them to hold out for years.

Let's-a-go!

I don't actually recall this rumour but a Star Fox racing game could be fun

Full disclosure: I have no idea what you're talking about, I just wanted to use that gif

One thing I didn't expect to come out of this movie was the Luna becoming a nihilistic meme on Spanish* Instagram. Seen a few just browsing but here's an example I could find again. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsZQlSOOEw9/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== (My Spanish is basic but it's something like "happy birthday friend. Another year older, another year closer to death") *Not sure whether it's a specific Spanish-speaking country

I would assume it being labelled as a draft is just perfunctory as it's not the final one, not necessarily that any changes would be made, just it's literally not the final one. Any changes at that stage I would imagine to be largely technical (formatting and all that boring stuff) rather than anything substantive. And by quitting and slagging off the committee he gave away it's findings when the contents are supposed to be confidential until it's public release. Hence why there's a whole section about how him doing that is a further breach. He had a right to read it prior to it's publication, he did not have a right to publicly discuss it to try and get ahead of its publication.

The committee report is out and they would have recommended 90 days suspension. Only glanced at it but multiple uses of the phrase "serious contempt". There's even a whole section dedicated to his resignation and how that, and his statements, broke the confidentiality of the report and thus is another serious contempt.

After purchasing all the companies in the world Embracer is overspent and laying off many people and cancelling projects. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/embracer-s-m-a-era-is-ending-with-job-cuts-and-game-cancellations?s=09

Let's hope he never returns.

Less hyperbolic than calling Norman Reedus a "visionary artist". FWIW we had a chat about video game films in light of the Mario movie and decided mostly they should go in general chat (alongside Last of Us TV show) but the Nintendo-specific ones stay in the Nintendo forum. But I guess documentaries are slightly different so who knows.

I've never been a huge fan of the franchise anyway (seen all the numbered films and whichever one it was with Riz Ahmed but only once each) so I was never going to be the audience for the shows anyway but the discussion above does resonate. Much like they did with Marvel, Disney seems intent on milking the franchise until the point where keeping on top of it becomes exhausting. I personally can't be bothered but I'm curious how many people will have given up and just focusing on specific shows rather than trying to watch everything.

Obviously American prices and retailers but this article explains the various different Blu-ray options: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/6/23751170/super-mario-bros-movie-blu-ray-release-date

Noticed this is £20 in Tesco earlier if anyone is looking for it.

Olimar is bad at his job, Louie merely violated the Geneva Convention.

Not sure how Olimar is so beloved in the game universe given he's constantly crashing his ship. You'd think he'd be reprimanded by this point.

I have stuck with the pixel line for quite a while because I want a good camera and prefer the Android OS to iOS but I would say if you have no particular alignment to one manufacturer or another give them a try and see which you get on best with. As you say, there's very little daylight between them if you're not into the granularity so it's mostly about vibes nowadays.

I've been thinking a lot about work recently. Came back from travelling a few weeks ago and kind of landed with some PT stuff (my old PT gave up and is doing a desk job but wanted to keep the business going) which was supposed to start this week but I'm ill at the moment and struggling to get people in for free sessions, yet alone paying. Part of me is worried I just said yes because it seems "sensible" to do something, which is a work pattern I repeat quite often. Intend to do it along web development stuff alongside it but it is very much "to pay the bills" and not even sure if it'll do that at the moment. I am trying to resist going back to my old line of work which paid stupid well but I found it soul sucking. As Sheikah said, working for others can be a drag so I'm looking to move into something more self-orientated. I don't necessarily mind working for/with others, as long as I have some autonomy. At some point last year there was a plan for some of us to open a gym but then the Tories tanked the economy (again), but that would have given seen me work for others, but with control over my specific area. A few weekends ago I was in London and catching up with some friends who work in creative industries and it reminded me how much I want to create. I went into my last line of work after finishing a creative degree because I needed to pay the bills and I just kind of stuck with it because I had to be self-sufficient. No slight on those I studied with (who have gone on to do very well) but those that started at the bottom did so because they had the financial support/backing of a partner or family and I didn't so I ended up in office work. So I'm trying to think of ways to make money from creative endeavours but I think I've come to accept I'll never have one of those mortgage things so maybe I can fuck around a bit more. Pursue something less "stable" for a while to see how that goes.

I imagine most reviews will basically say "it's fine if uninspiring, the appeal wears off quickly and it should have been free on NSO". I'm sure it'll be a 6 or so from most places.