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Just adding on to this, I do think the "up-specced OG hardware" approach something Nintendo has done before. Upgrades like GC to Wii and Game Boy to Game Boy Color are really just boosts to the clock speeds and RAM, they don't have anything specifically included for BC reasons (unless you're counting GameCube memory card slots). They really are just iterations on the same hardware. Similar to the New 3DS, on modded consoles you can run GameCube games at Wii clock speeds and they almost all work without issue.

On that subject, the fact that Nintendo says the compatibility won't be 100% is potentially encouraging. If the Switch 2 was just going to downclock compatible parts to their Switch 1 performance and was otherwise identical, you'd expect all games to work. The reduction in compatibility could be because games are going to be running with Switch 2 clocks across the board, which most games should handle just fine and a small handful may not.

That is how every previous Nintendo back-compat implementation has worked.

• GC on Wii
• Wii on Wii U
• Game Boy on Game Boy Color
• Game Boy/Color on Game Boy Advance
• Game Boy Advance on (New) Nintendo (3)DS
• Nintendo DS on Nintendo DSi
• Nintendo DS/i on Nintendo 3DS
• Nintendo 3DS on New Nintendo 3DS

In every case, the system drops back to the earlier console's hardware specifications. There are hybrid cross-gen games on some of the handhelds which offer improvements on the newer hardware, but up to this point, older games have never been updated to get the improvements of newer hardware. That doesn't necessarily mean the same will hold, but I'd suggest you assume it will and be pleasantly surprised if they buck the trend.

I wonder if the magic rule understands double negatives. If you tell a vampire "You ain't never coming in here," can they enter? What about sarcasm? "Oh yeah, I'm definitely inviting you in."

I was curious too. The US National Parks Service states that 85% of wildfires are caused by humans.

It's the name of one of the main characters in the Comedy Central sitcom Workaholics.

This is pretty interesting. The claimant never pitched his movie to Disney itself, instead arguing that the exec he provided those materials to, Jenny Marchick, was "using legal loopholes to pass on his materials to Disney." Not trying to dox anybody, but Marchick has a public LinkedIn profile and her official association with Disney is limited (she worked at the Disney Channel for four months in 2011). Otherwise, she has been employed by Mandeville Films, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Animation and DreamWorks.

2003 and "over the next few years" is vague, but it roughly corresponds to when Marchick was Director of Development at Mandeville, a studio probably best known for 2008's Beverly Hills Chihuahua--for certain definitions of "best"--although Marchick was already with Fox by that point. I'm not making any sort of judgment about the likelihood of Marchick aiding in theft of Woodall's work based on this stuff, just putting together how it is alleged to have happened.

Would you care to speculate how your psychoanalysis of Internet commenters leading you to describe them with what would generally be regarded as personal insults--jealous, insecure, immature, assholes, smug bastards, emotional--makes people feel? In this discussion about how you desire for people to be nicer to each other, it's worth considering.

To be clear, toxic people are majorly unpleasant and you're right to call people out for throwing around personal insults in a place where we hopefully all want to come to have to or see civil interactions and maybe sometimes have a bit of fun.

Do any of you use the Interstellar app? I can't access Fedia via the app currently (error 500), but it works via web. Perhaps there's an API issue which is preventing both app access and federation?

This is pretty common, especially when using petrol/gasoline as the accelerant. There's two big mistakes people seem to make:

1. they'll start the fire then pour on the accelerant and the fire will travel back up the stream because it's not a ghost
2. they don't realize that the fumes are also flammable, so the fire can easily jump from the pooled accelerant via the evaporating gas to them and the container of more accelerant they're holding, resulting in an exciting light show if you're outside of the blast zone

"Take a comic" isn't a real expression, they are doing a joke where they have paraphrased the second panel.

Well, this quote is not attested in any of the known works of Epicurus. This particular version was first printed in The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues compiled by Charles Bufe in 1992. So Mastodon might be back on the table.

If anyone else finds themselves checking Wikipedia to read about this show, note that you're looking for The Franchise (2024 TV series), not The Franchise (TV series).