So can we stop using those damn things? They’re super annoying!

Note the blur at the bottom of the screen. It’s trying to emulate a tilt-shift effect, but since it’s just applied in a straight line across the bottom regardless of how close the objects are to the camera, it just looks ugly:

The 8-bit image I posted above is of a Zora in the original LoZ. They were also in ALttP:

But in OoT, the people called Zoras looked like the white guy to the right in my earlier post. In Echoes of Wisdom they finally have both kinds in the same game, and call them River and Sea Zoras:

Thankfully, for those of us with hacked Switches, there’s a blur removal patch out, just like with Link’s Awakening. It looks so much better without that ugly smear across the bottom of the screen.

I thought it was cool that they finally explained how both of these are Zoras:

CANNON BANNED

I’d hesitate to call the pixel remasters definitive (aside from III), since the extra content from the GBA releases isn’t there.

I’ve been stuck on the DLC for a long time now, not because of difficulty, but because I just don’t find it very interesting. Hoping to force my way through it one of these days.

Does that mean this was actually posted last Friday?

I got it for free in 2021 when they were doing the Play at Home initiative. Unfortunately, I’ve never liked it. I hate having to be sneaky and use ranged for combat. I just wanna run up and hit stuff with my stick.

Not air conditioning, silly, Animal Crossing!

I figured it out because I remembered there being a scene in a bowling alley. I know a surprising amount considering I’ve never seen it, thanks to cultural osmosis. I really should watch it sooner rather than later!

“Let me put it this way. A corporation is like a big, hungry monster. My job is to find plenty of smaller, weaker monsters for it to eat.”

Yet they’re rarely torn down. Other stores hermit crab into the space.

Shopko

Memory triggered. There was a Shopko in Nebraska near where my grandfather lived. I remember buying Super Metroid, Secret of Mana, and Mega Man Soccer there in 1994. Well, at least two of the games were great!

There’s still a Blockbuster sign up by the freeway near where I used to live. There wasn’t a Blockbuster there even when I moved there 10 years ago.

I haven’t seen The Big Lebowski so I almost got everything. Just not what Lebowski’s obsession with a large heavy ball is. Bowling…?

I’m a filthy pirate and played it for a few hours last weekend. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy having to summon things to fight rather than just whacking enemies with a sword, but it works surprisingly well! I think anyone who wasn’t too put-off by the performance issues with Link’s Awakening will like this one.

The dead-eyed, plastic-faced one. You know which one I mean.

Good, I’m glad you liked it! I may try it sometime in the future when Ubisoft does their usual deep discount.