All I gotta say on the Spyro remaster trilogy is that I 100% support the 3rd game ( the only one my family had ) having been remastered. I don’t like how the bugs in certain levels look/looked in either version because bugs can fuck off, but I was dreading a certain level where you’d find a giant gateway to that shark ( submarine? ) shooting mini game and I didn’t even realize I breezed through that section. Little kid me was scared of that giant gateway because the music would stop and then I’d be face to face with a giant black void, but them deciding music should be played by those portals made it 300% less terrifying.

I have no clue how the original Crash or Rayman games compare since I only played Wrath of Cortex, Twinsanity, and Tagteam Racing for Crash ( before getting the remasters of the original trilogy ( still on game 1 ) ), and Rayman on DS and Origins on xbox360 ( before getting Legends ).

As for Ratchet & Clank, I have played all the PS2 titles ( still in the beginning of Deadlocked ), so I have a frame of reference for how it compares to the latest R&C game. So far ( only have made it past the first Rivet section because getting my controller to work while playing it on Steam Deck, is for some reason, the biggest pain in the ass no matter what I try ) it has been very fun for me. Absolutely love Rivet because 2 words: Giant Hammer! The story, so far, is also pretty good, too.

With Jak and Daxter, I 100% played through the first game but haven’t touched the 2nd game since I was less than 25% done before losing my copy alongside the memory card with my save. But can say with certainly the first game is worth it and would love to see a remaster of.

I hold more against AI than not.

1. Take out all the copyrighted material all the big models illegally trained off of and their AK collapses. Their scrapers are also doing everything they can to kill small websites through DDOS by scraping everything they can as many times as possible and you know this is a feature and not a bug because it gets rid of any form of competition by default.
2. It’s an attack on education and critical thinking. Why would the average Joe put in the effort to research and learn something properly lr even question the results if they believe an AI would never lie or be wrong? Critical thinking is already a skill on the decline, but I firmly believe AI is expediting this for a lot of people who either don’t know better or just don’t care.
3. From a coding perspective, if your software relies on AI generated code, I’ve heard more stories of that same software being full of vulnerabilities caused by said AI code than not. I also hold a view that if you have to use AI to understand what a program does rather than using something like a textbook written by an actual dedicated expert in a programming language or consult someone who is better than you in said programming language, you are gonna learn the absolute worst practices, like leaving a default Django password that the AI generates.
4. I view AI as extremely unprofessional. If you have to rely on AI to help your work that isn’t AI related, I’ll take that as you don’t actually know what you’re doing and am just phoning it in. It also shows how lazy and unable to think for yourself you are. I’d gladly admit I’m dumb as a bag of rocks considering I have used it to fix software errors on my Linux running laptop, so I’m not exception to my own rule. Forums and help groups for software troubles exist for a reason.
5. With the amount of energy they require ( using non-renewables ), any action you do to try and stop global warming is offset within a couple nanoseconds ( hyperbole, maybe, but it’s definitely been a big issue ). I’m absolutely positive they don’t use renewable, at least for the big US data centers, because that would require building new infrastructure that they’re not willing to shill out a penny for. Most likely the same for just about every other country with large AI data centers out there.
6. Looping back to point 1, with them scraping everything to death, they are able to essentially embolden the deranged “artists gatekeeping art!” sickos who believe that artists are somehow gatekeeping art from everyone because they have spent time practicing and getting better. I can pretty much guarantee these deranged sickos want art for free and without having to put in any effort at all because they all don’t value art or artists at all. After all, why would they support the arts when they could instead generate AI Jesus for Fakebook and get a shit ton of validation for their “art” from people without having to put in any effort?
7. AI writing is just derivative of the training data it’s based on. As of now, because of the way it’s trained, you can tell certain models apart from how the text is generated. “Brow furled”? Immediately, if I see that, my mind immediately goes to text generated by Anthropic’s Claude AI. Also, the writing, from my experience, tends to be too well written for the average Joe. It’s also as generic and logical as I usually tend to write and have been trying to shake off. That’s subjective, though, on how generic and logical it reads.

I swear, the moment this comes out on one of my favorite websites, in good enough quality, I’m watching it as fast as possible. If this came out maybe 2018-2019 I would have definitely been running over kids and their parents at the theater to see it, but now I’d rather just wait for it to be released on a certain site.

Hell, the first time I saw the original, it was on a sketchy website where someone filmed in a theater ( English dub but Chinese subtitles for some odd reason ), so I’m definitely doing something similar, but this time from a certain site that tends to be a lot safer than going to random websites like I did back then.

Closest I can think of was maybe a little less than 2 decades ago now. I vaguely remember it, but some time after my grandpa had died, our landline got a call. I was in the room with my grandma and mother and my mom went to get the phone. There was no number, but instead just his name. Pretty sure she answered, but nobody replied. The line was dead.

My mom swears it was something like my grandpa, in the afterlife, calling to tell us that everything’s gonna be okay despite his recent passing, but I don’t buy into that kinda religious spiritual stuff

Other than that, I have memories from when I was younger that I cannot confirm or deny because the only people I know who might have an answer probably wouldn’t remember and I’d feel real weird asking them about these memories completely out of the blue. One is me supposedly going on a trip with the family of one of my older brother’s friend’s family to a city/town ( don’t remember name ) in a nearby county ( name not included for obvious reasons ) in the same state and me being in the basement in a house we stopped at for some reason. That’s a very vague memory. Same with an unconfirmed memory where I swear I went with the mother of this friend to some berry picking place and was stuck in their van once we got back to their place, with nobody coming to help me get out. Very vaguely remember that I couldn’t open the van door for some reason. I’d probably chalk that one up to me being a kid and time moving by relatively slow from my perspective, making it seem like forever when it was probably just a couple minutes of me trying to get out.

Both vague and highly unconfirmed, but I am more concerned about the memory of a mystery road trip that I somehow ended up involved in that my parents don’t remember. Wouldn’t expect them to since they weren’t there, but the fact they don’t remember this supposed trip happening adds to the mystery.

As much as I hate Firefox having AI, they really don’t have a choice. If the majority of people are already using it and don’t give a rats ass, they’re absolutely gonna switch to the AI integrated browsers ( chrome, edge, probably safari if they already have AI in it or are working on it, etcetera ).

Firefox is inbetween a rock and a hard place right now. They either not add AI integration and attract less users or they do and risk alienating their current small userbase and becoming irrelevant enough to become unusable because big tech 100% enforces a new web standard that non-AI Firefox cannot handle.

For now, I’m siding with Mozilla on this because I can almost 100% guarantee if Firefox falls, the free web will die in less than a year. No more Librewolf, Firedragon ( floorp w/ Librewolf settings/patches IIRC ), etcetera, because if we’re being honest, what open source company/rando volunteer has the time, drive, and money to keep the Gecko rendering engine alive? And that’s just a start to keeping Firefox alive.

Just the other day I figured out the Plants vs Zombie fangame has not only a community server ( discord, sadly ), but they also have a demo out! I had an old build using an old engine that has more levels, but I downloaded and played the new demo and it’s amazing so far. Officially called 植物大的僵尸: Universe ( Plants vs Zombies: Universe in English ).

Totally looking forward to the games completion ( assuming neither EA or Talkweb don’t destroy it ) because it’s a very ambitious project trying to take content from, if I remember correctly, pvz1 international, China’s exclusive pvz1 journey to the west edition, 2 international, pvz2 Chinese edition, Online, and the card game ( not 100% sure if I’m right on that one being added ) and rolling it into a single game.

Demo currently gives you Emperor’s Mausoleum from Online and Ancient Egypt (the pvz Online version), with just base levels for now. Minigame side levels, which are present in the old build I have, aren’t currently available in the latest demo they have linked in their discord. As a big enough fan of the non spin-off titles, this makes me very gitty.

Otherwise, more dungeon clawler and that’s about all for non-mobile games. I did try modding Sonic Lost Worlds on PC, but I can’t with my setup.

1. Definitely gonna keep my subscriptions as minimal as I can, like I currently am: just a VPN. Obviously I have a few others I’ll need in the future like utilities, internet, and phone, but those are the bare minimum you need since you can scrape by without paying a dime for content thanks to piracy, so long as you are careful.
2. I have a couple of ones that I’d say are both high on the list ( no idea which is higher because they’re both pretty annoying to me ).

The first is that when I do dishes at home, I put certain things a very specific way when filling the dishwasher and putting things away, which is why I absolutely hate when other people do dishes. I’ll deal with other people doing the dishes, but then I always feel like I gotta go and put things back where they belong when I’m not the one to put the dishes away.

The second is more furry fandom specific. So, when it comes to fursuits, some people might ditch the fursuit head and just maybe wear the paws or other pieces of it if it’s not a single piece costume. My gripe is specifically that: not wearing the head. I don’t care if you poodle ( wear a partial and show some skin ), talk in suit, or whatever, but I think it’s extremely disrespectful to the character your suit is based off of, whether it’s your fursona, OC, an adopt, liberty suit, whatever, to not wear the head at a bare minimum. It’s why my opinion the bare minimum you should do for a fursuit commission should be the head.

I imagine if you told these same people that AI slop is for losers, their heads would explode and you’d be called all sorts of colourful words. It definitely, in my experience, feels like AI slop enjoyers aren’t the most stable. Though, my experience hasn’t been too much since I actively avoid them if possible.

I’ve got at least 2 on my desk. Both from my new phones ( the one I accidentally fried in a lake and the replacement I got ). They’re both connected to some little piece of magnet strip that I have no idea where it came from.

Calabash Brothers ( the original from either the 70s or 80s, can’t remember which decade ). Still looking for the series that came after ( and also the 2010s version ) with ENG subtitles just to see how insane they are in comparison.

Original contains death in a couple different ways at least, and some weird scenes like one of the characters losing their powers by essentially having magic strike his eyes or 2 characters that look like minors ( but probably aren’t ) getting drunk and passing out off of magically conjured wine.

Out of the ones I’ve seen, The Cat Returns. It’s not the most cinematic, amazing, fantastical movie like Spirited Away, Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, etcetera, but it’s one I really like regardless.

Though, if we’re talking about the opposite, Earwig and the Witch is at the very bottom.

One of my personal favorites has been Plants vs Zombies 2: Reflourished. It’s a modded version of the original game that removes all ads and microtransactions and is a challenging enough game.

Also, Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Simple enough to figure out, simple controls, and no 2 runs are the same until you unlock seeded runs by beating a run ( which I can somehow never do ).

Look! He left a publicly available email address to spam! You know what to do, people!

I remember reading an article about an airport staff person ( possibly TSA? ) laughing about a little girls name. Same exact name. Crazy stuff that any parent could start their children at square -3 upon being born.

I was thinking something a lot worse, an upside down cross, since I assume just about anyone currently supporting Trump without question are basically no better than the stereotypical Satan worshipers they call us left leaning people who support people not suffering.

If we’re talking strictly the games, just a about any place from gens 8 and 9 because they’re either sparsely populated in a way makes them way too hollow, boring, and pathetic, or you can’t even interact with what little NPCs or majority of the buildings that are in the town, which leads to the same problems. To me that’s more depressing than any lore could ever build for a town.

Though, that’s only my opinion, as I would much rather prefer things like gen 1-4 where every single city/town you can enter just about every single building and talk to the NPCs and they’ll have a line or two of unique dialogue that really helps me feel like the world is lived in by people and not NPCs.

News like this makes me wish I knew their addresses and lived close by. I think a symbol they’re very familiar with would look lovely burning in their yards.

I haven’t been playing it much, but Chuzzle Deluxe and Mahjong (the match 2 tiles, clear board version).

I don’t know the exact specific version of Mahjong my grandma used to have on her laptop because it’s generic and has 3 trillion different clones/versions of it, but the reason I haven’t gotten rid of the KDE version on my laptop is because it reminds me, in a way, of a long time ago when I’d spend time with her. Same with Chuzzle.

I had a pretty good time earlier on my laptop just spending a little bit of time in the zen chuzzle mode and it was great. 10/10 would recommend.

I also learned earlier today that there was a Christmas skinned version and there’s a non-EA Chuzzle 2 mobile game out, but as of now the Christmas version isn’t available ( as of May 15, 2025 ) unless you pirate it.

Take out all the people and creatures trying to kill you along the way and I feel like a walk down the intended route from Goodsprings to New Vegas would be fun enough and fairly pleasant. Otherwise, it’s a survival game nightmare I wouldn’t win, no matter how you slice it.

And if you’d consider Yooka-Laylee open world, the full first book you enter would be fun to stroll all over in for a short while. Especially since the majority of the enemies look like little pushovers.

One thing I’ve noticed is that my dad, who is getting up there in age, recently fell for the trap of “the youth don’t wanna work anymore” and “they’re too afraid of hurting themselves” arguments.

Yeah, we definitely would rather collect unemployment if it’s better than 900% of all jobs willing to hire and yes we don’t want our bodies being mangled and destroyed by factory accidents, without compensation of course.

Hell, I’ve been thinking of some creative ways to make a little extra money on the side through some shady dealings, and I’m still living with my parents and in college. Just need a shit ton of prep to avoid being caught online.