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I hate the DNC as much as you do, bit the DNC is not the state.

Apu is a complex and multifaceted character that fans have many reasons to love. But no matter how lovable the character is, I don't think it's right to say that the good parts of the character can just cancel out or erase his problematic origins.

Most importantly though, if Hank has decided he does not want to voice the character, that is his right to do so and it would not be right to force him back into the role.

Really though, the best solution is to just... let the Simpsons end already. It had a good run, but it's been trash for far longer than it was originally good. Are you sure you really want Apu back on the new seasons today, or do you just want your nostalgia for classic Simpsons? Because the latter is something you can already have, no one's taking that away.

If you want to be upset about $80 Mario Kart, I'm not going to tell you not to be upset. But I am going to tell you not to lie and spread misinformation.

They are making new games too. Square Enix is a large publisher with a lot of different projects in their pipeline. Including their HD-2D team that's still doing sprites.

I play a fair amount of stuff, some mainstream enough to post here, some not. But genre-wise I'd say my biggest favorites are fighting games and versus puzzle games.

!fgc@lemmy.world exists, and I do post there occasionally. But the games I play (Skullgirls, Them's Fightin' Herds, Under Night In-Birth) are the niche-within-a-niche, I've drifted off from the wider mainstream FGC.

Versus puzzle games... I'm the guy who been very disgruntled over the fact that the genre as a whole is dead and buried. There's just not much of a community for these games anywhere anymore.

Last year I published a video essay about how Sega's mismanagement slowly killed Puyo Puyo. I did post that one to a few communities here, because "In-depth video essay about a game you've never played but will still find interesting by the end of this video" is a genre that can fit into a general space.

But that kind of video essay is the only type of content that I think I could post here. I don't expect anyone to take an interest in competitive highlights, coaching, analysis, etc. Last week we got some more news about Sega screwing up again, but that's still not something I'd expect to generate discussion here.

It's not just how niche the games themselves are, but the distinction between the type of content that fits a general space versus content only hardcore fans will even understand, let alone take an interest in.

The remake is split into an episodic trilogy.

FF7 Remake - Part 1
FF7 Remake Intergrade - Updated rerelease for PS5, featuring an additional bonus chapter
FF7 Rebirth - Part 2
Part 3 is still in development.

Say what you will about the direction they've taken the remake, but they most certainly did put work into making something very different from the 1997 original.

I don't think "hobbies" makes sense as a generalist community. No one is interested in "hobbies" as a general concept, they're interested in their own specific hobby. Trying to consolidate completely unrelated hobbies into one space in the hopes that more people will subscribe won't work if those people have no common ground to discuss together in that space.

The problem is that trying to talk about very specific things in a general community will just result in silence if no one in the general community knows/cares about the very specific thing.

On Reddit, you can type /r/nameofanygame and find a sub populated by people who also found it that way. This obviously cannot work on Lemmy, not outside of a few very very very popular games. But for games that are too niche to have fandom spaces here, directing the niche fandom elements to !games@sh.itjust.works isn't likely to fit there either. Some of my favorite games are titles that I might just literally be the only person on Lemmy who plays them, so I just don't think there's any kind of space for them, general or specific.

I play a lot of Riichi Mahjong, and I saw that !mahjong@lemmy.nerdcore.social already exists, so when I see some interesting content I try tossing it over there in the hopes that if I keep doing so, maybe at some point more people will eventually join me. Would I be better off posting to !boardgames@sopuli.xyz because generalist good, specific bad? Probably not, I doubt anyone there is interested in deep technical What Would You Discard? analysis. Maybe the most surface level casual/beginner content might fit in, I could crosspost a basic How to Play tutorial there, but content that is too specific doesn't make sense in that kind of community.

It's not like those kinds of niche subs are going to see tons of activity on Digg either.

Please don't. There's a reason.

It is less bad than code-in-a-box. That's not a high bar, but it is less bad.

There are two main reasons to buy physical:

Ability to share, trade, and resell your games. These key cards still support this, whereas code-in-a-box did not. So, slightly better.

Then there's the peace of mind that your games will still work in the distant future. I think if you ask most people who primarily buy physical, myself included, we'll say this is the main appeal of physical games, and the big reason why key cards don't feel acceptable.

Some day when the servers eventually go offline, these key cards will become bricks. It's not a question of if, it's a question of when. We have no idea how long Nintendo will support them for, and they're not going to hard commit a timetable out loud for us. But we know it can't be forever.

But even for standard physical games, there is some uncertainty regarding their long-term future that I'm not sure people realize. When those servers eventually go online, your cartridge only has 1.0 on it, you won't be able to get patches. That's better than a brick, but for a lot of games that's probably not the version you want to play.

And then the even darker concern is bit rot. No form of physical media is permanent. Every disc and every cartridge will eventually degrade. Worse yet is that for many forms of media, we don't even know how long they're set to last for, we only find out once some of them start to fail. Cartridges are generally better than discs, but beyond that we truly have no idea how long Switch cartridges should be expected to last.

Curious if these carts remain compatible with Switch 1, booting back into the base game.