I value a good playthrough much more than a review. Just because an influencer likes a game does not mean I will.

A good playthrough should put me in the mind of a player. For example:

• How much are they paying attention to their own game state vs. looking to help/hinder their opponent?
• How many different moves do they need to consider?
• How much are they calculating the expected value of a move?
• How many things do they need to remember?
• How much of their strategy is based on preexisting knowledge from previous games?

A reviewer might not bring it up or may have a different preference for it than I don

There is a market segment that loves them and you can cut some corners on difficulty tuning. As long as the game is impossibly hard with no meta-progression unlocked and laughably easy with all meta-progression unlocked, you can call it good enough.

Sally, Limited Run Games releases some games on Game Key Cards.

It is a big deal. If Epic changes some API and breaks Heroic, it is your problem for using an unsupported third party application. If Epic breaks their official client, their QA manager has a problem.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/467810/Splody/

It is a Bomberman rip-off, but very fun. The Steam page claims they can support any number of players, but recommends limiting it to 4-20.

It is a grand jury. That is the practice round for a trial. The prosecutor goes over the evidence and explains what argument they are going to make in court without the defendent or their lawyer present to argue against it. The role of a grand jury is to pump the prosecutor up and say “You got this. I would totally believe you if I was on a real jury.”

The fact that in this case, the grand jury said “That is stupid. You have no argument. Just let the guy walk,” means that either the prosecutor is an incompetent idiot who did not understand what evidence he was presenting or the jury thought that no crime had been committed.

Obviously you should not exclude her. The more people, the better the efficiency.

In (US criminal) law, you need to prove “beyond a reasonable doubt”. If no reasonable person would have a doubt that the killing is political then legally it is proven. The point of the jury is to be a representative sample of reasonable people.

That is why they should not quit on the spot. Start applying for job postings and quit once they have a new offer in hand.

I thought that the US banned flavored vapes. If your home country has not, encourage politicians to ban vapes altogether.

Edit: In retrospect, I should let the vape addicts be.

MySpace (and a lot of early social media) was about keeping up with what was going on in your friends lives, not screaming into the void and being drowned out by brands and influencers (like I am doing now).

And someone needs to hire the lifeguard and manage that budget. That is why that house has to have an HOA.

A magnet school is just a school that will take students from anywhere in the district instead of only students that live nearby. Some require tests to attend, but others do not.

But yes, there are public schools for gifted students that admit purely based on academic merit and exam scores. In theory, a rich student would not be able to buy their way in. In practice, having a tutor who can coach a child on exam specifics is a very large advantage.

There is a community pool so there needs to be someone managing the shared community assets.

You can still have reliable migration without the user the ability to open a save on more than one system. For example:

1. Tell the Nintendo servers that you want to migrate a game.
2. Copy the game save into the migration app save then delete the game save.
3. Migration app sends the game save to the destination system.
4. The destination system checks that the save is fully downloaded and free of corruption. It tells the Nintendo servers that it is ready to finish the migration.
5. Both the source and destination systems watch the Nintendo servers for the next step. Once it gives them permission to complete the migration, the source system can permanently delete the game save while the destination system copies the game save from migration app storage into game storage.
6. If the destination system fails, the Nintendo server can abort the migration and give the source system permission to put the save files back. When the destination system recovers, it will be told by the Nintendo servers that the migration was aborted and to delete any save data it got.

If global banks can transfer millions of dollars from account to account without money being created or destroyed, Nintendo can make sure that only one system is allowed to open up a game save.

I found the relevant Nintendo press release: https://www.pokemon.com/us/news/pokemon-firered-version-and-pokemon-leafgreen-version-link-with-pokemon-home-this-october

I am curious what they mean by Fire Red and Leaf Green getting Pokemon Home integration. I don’t own either game (yet) but I was under the impression that both games could already send Pokemon to Home, but that it was a one way journey. Once a Pokemon was sent to Home, there was no way to get it back to Fire or Leaf.

The news post says that

Once a Pokémon from Pokémon FireRed Version or Pokémon LeafGreen Version is brought to another game in the Pokémon series, they will be unable to return to Pokémon FireRed Version or Pokémon LeafGreen Version. Pokémon from other games in the Pokémon series will be unable to visit Pokémon FireRed Version or Pokémon LeafGreen Version.

So does that imply that I will now be able to move Pokemon from Leaf to Home and back to Leaf? Will I be able to use Home online trades to get Fire/Leaf Pokemon and them bring them into my game?

If that is true, it would resolve my biggest gripe with the Switch version and put the game at the top of my shopping list.

20 year old Pokemon Scarlet save? That game is only a couple years old.

Do you mean that the save file included mons that the player had been moving from game to game for 20 years?

Not that that is an excuse. Nintendo should have expected some amount of migrations to fail and either have the migration retry and/or restore the save on the original system.

The AI running the account has trouble identifying dogs

I assume that Microsoft is trying to appeal to two different groups of shareholders. The first sees Microsoft buying up studios and assumes that the studios will be able to put out better games cheaper (by firing support staff like HR). The second group sees Microsoft cutting low performing workers and assumes that Microsoft will be able to get more profits by cutting lots of cost without losing much income. If they time it right, they can get the second group to start buying just as the first group starts selling.

I don’t see any mistake in Devolver putting out an IPO.

I assume that when the founders started the company, they were not ultra rich and had to take investor money in order to get their first couple games to market. They likely hired people at below market rates in exchange for equity.

Once the company became self sustaining and profitable, those people started asking about how they could turn the promises of equity into actual money. The easiest way was to IPO. Hopefully, the founders sold a bunch of stock when the company was at $250 per share.

Now the stock is at $7.50 per share and the founders can buy back all the stock they sold and all the stock they gave away in leu of payments. If they did it right, they now have complete control of the company and a pile of cash, all at the expense of the investors who bought in at the public offering.