There should be a rule on how many people or how many times layoffs can happen before leadership gets let go instead.

If you skipped the Switch 1, I think it’s worth going for. It’s overpriced for the moment - there are only a handful of Switch 2 exclusive games worth playing this year. Even the flagship Mario Kart game is a little weird with how it does some of its modes. But the Switch 1 has an extensive library with plenty of great multiplayer options. If you’re ready for a purchase, might as well go ahead and get the 2 so y’all can play the new Nintendo games when you want.

I agree that Nintendo the company is really slimy though, and it does feel a little gross to support them sometimes.

I’ve subscribed to a few, though I often find myself getting lazy about listening to them. So take my suggestions with a grain of salt.

Some I used to listen to, some I’ve wanted to listen to, some of these coworkers recommended in recent weeks that I have little to no idea about. Hopefully this helps you find something you like!

• Base.cs
• Book Bytes
• Coding Blocks
• Command Line Heroes
• CoRecursive
• HanselMinutes
• LambdaCast
• No Silver Bullet
• Signals and Threads
• Toolsday

Amazing game. I remember hearing folks describe it, before I ever played. I couldn’t get my head around the concept. Then you play, and all the rules just make sense.

When I played through Portal in dev commentary mode, I was surprised at the time to realize they’re basically trying to teach you things through the whole game (or at least heavily signpost). Made me realize a lot about game design, and design in general.

September 25, 2025

Not exactly games I guess, but https://neal.fun/ always has neat stuff. I think some of them are relatively recent.

Super Metroid

I haven’t played in a number of years, but I’m pretty sure fan-made servers are still running for Phantasy Star Online.

I was playing the GameCube version online well over a decade after that console was dead. Blue Burst on PC is well supported too, I believe.

Crazy now to imagine a console game letting you input a DNS server and IP address for online play. But it did.

Vim has that same kind of tutorial, that you can access right within the application. Such a nice feature.

I didn’t know that about Inkscape, now I really want to try that one.

Not to defend Nintendo much here, but the situation with game-key-cards is at least better than that. You can freely trade, give away, resell them like any physical cart.

It’s a step up from digital in terms of freedom, but a step down in convenience (cart has to be in the system).

Compared to real, physical, data-on-the-cart media though, these are a definite downgrade.

My niece introduced me to LKBC, and so far it seems like a lot of fun!

Ubuntu had a thing for a while where they would send you a CD if you asked for it. Friend of mine from school gave me one.

I really like App-images. For the most part, they just work, download, run, done. And sometimes you want the flexibility to install something the distro’s pacakage manager doesn’t give you (or doesn’t have the latest version of). It’s a little extra work to put the app in system menus, etc though.

Package manger still preferred. Having the system deal with updates and dependencies is nice.

AUR is still good, but I’d take the App Image. Sometimes these work for me, sometimes they don’t. Still have to manually update them, AFAIK.

Wow, I had actually never heard that Doug Bowser was formerly at EA. Ooof

I get that it’s more fun to point out his name, I’m just surprised I hadn’t seen the comment made before.

Yep, I feel like people overestimate how much anyone cares about official support or security patches or whatever. People will assume it’s fine until they’re either forced out or something goes horribly wrong.

Regular folks will most likely let it be if possible, until it’s time for a new PC anyway.

I’m not big on the idea of open world racing. To me, driving between race tracks looks like a chore.

I’ve seen other racers do it, but I’ve never really delved into a game like that. Maybe once I do I’ll really like it.

I do think grinding rails and wall jumping around looks pretty fun in MK. But it could end up gimmicky and unexiciting once you’re used to.

Basically all a big ‘wait and see’ from my perspective.

Had a scare when first hearing this. But somewhere else on the site it does specify this as something like “some physical games”, and as quoted in OP they’re contrasting here with “regular game cards”. So it looks like real game cards will still be a thing.

So far I’ve seen screenshots of SFVI and Bravely Default boxarts marked as game-key cards.

I’ve seen box shots for Mario Kart and Donkey Kong that appear to be normal game cards.

Seems so. Notably, Switch 1 already has games with a similar warning on the box.

They’re just giving a name to it.

On one hand, I’m glad they’re up front about it (and I’d rather see an even uglier, larger warning on the cover for game key cards). On the other, I hope this isn’t a sign that they’re legitimizing it or that it’ll be more common.

Fair point, some games are very big. FFVII Rebirth and Baldur’s Gate 3 shipped on 2 discs though, it’s not unheard of.