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This feels much more poignant than jokes about abandoned nintendogs and tamagotchis.

The love for a Sylveon is so much more cynical and brief and intense. It’s not simulated pet ownership; it’s a manipulative love bomb.

11.03.2026 03:39 👍 18 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I bought one of these at a convention, unopened, and it runs so much worse than I expected. There’s no excusing it. It released 8 years after the first Game Boy.

09.03.2026 23:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I support yanmega identifying as an attack helicopter.

09.03.2026 17:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They’ve never stopped producing spinoffs. Their last big-budget Switch game was a spinoff too.

09.03.2026 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Look at this le gem! 💎

09.03.2026 17:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Star Trek fans sure are eager to invalidate each other and divide into tribes this year.

09.03.2026 17:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Some are HO and some are HOm; so they’re matching scale, but accurately made for annoyingly differing track widths.

08.03.2026 21:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This one’s more photogenic but it doesn’t have hinged wheels; you have to pick a configuration. Neither has satisfactory doors, but at least the old one tried.

08.03.2026 20:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That scene was immediately obviously biting off more cast than they could chew. It was like when the 80s Transformers comic spent a panel introducing a bunch of new toys who would never have lines again, but in the case of Star Trek… why? Did they really think those people would fit in the format?

07.03.2026 18:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Episode naming conventions are pretty rare in all of fiction. I think the most famous one is “Friends,” and they didn’t even use their titles onscreen.

My favorite Trek title is “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry.” I don’t even remember what the episode’s about, but that is batshit.

07.03.2026 16:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

You **just said** you weren’t aware of a backlash at all, and now you’re saying you’ve seen it but you don’t respect it and you’re assigning half of it to **Russian bots**.

Your own bad faith is off the charts. The irony meter has exploded.

06.03.2026 01:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is the real reason G1 TFs have metal toes.

05.03.2026 21:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Marquane

05.03.2026 20:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Most praise for this show takes the form of “backlash to the backlash,“ and it’s not a flattering look.

I wish we could just take things for what they are, but everyone uses SFA to mark turf.

05.03.2026 18:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We’re still getting a 10-episode season 4 and a 6-episode season 5. Neither has aired yet.

04.03.2026 23:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Season 2 is filmed already. So are two more “seasons” of SNW, but the last one is so short it shouldn’t be called a season.

04.03.2026 20:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m gonna customize it so the joints on the prototypes feel authentically jank borked.

04.03.2026 15:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s insane that #3 was that trilogy’s flop. It was the only one I liked.

04.03.2026 07:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That only works if you blow on the cartridge.

04.03.2026 00:46 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So impeach Bondi?

02.03.2026 22:45 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s about the same. The whole GBA library looks great on the OLED and the 2. They’re nice screens.

28.02.2026 07:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On the right: the first toy I ever bought that wasn’t from American retail.

28.02.2026 04:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

RIP the Scream 5&6 protagonist.

27.02.2026 19:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whenever I need an antenna, I plug in a Sega Genesis RF switch. It’s just wire.

25.02.2026 20:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For a moment I thought this was like Double Punch’s bio saying he can withstand an unimpressive 150° Fahrenheit.

25.02.2026 02:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Paradise Parakeet?

23.02.2026 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m a Metroid-only “metroidvania” fan, but that does sound like the spot-on genre experience.

22.02.2026 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whose health secretary, mine or yours? Are all of them like that now?

22.02.2026 16:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It is possible to see tiny glimpses of flecks of color, yeah. You’re getting very close to the pixels. The red piece is obviously a strict filter for that. But that extra inch of closeness to the screen is indispensable for me, and it’s still *plenty* red for my red-loving eyes.

21.02.2026 18:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The red eyepiece is funny too; it doesn’t do anything to the gameplay, which is already red-only (for now). It makes the hardware look correct on your shelf, but it also turns non-red menus red (like the full-color box art menu), and blocks your eyes from getting the intended closeness to the lenses

21.02.2026 17:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0