Metroid wasn’t first. Games like Pitfall II and Montezuma’s Revenge predate it.

As for the “Metroidvania” name, originally it just applied to Castlevania games in the Metroid mould (particularly in the GBA/DS days when there were a tonne of them) but people just started applying it to the entire genre. It was always a terrible name.

I thought he had a tear running down his cheek.

Found one.

What’s Upcat?

It asked Updog for a boost.

Well yeah, it’s NASA.

Using an LLM to play chess is like using autocorrect to write a novel.

Better than Rowling

I scored 9 out of 10! Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? 💻🔪 https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/

The more unkempt and dishevelled they look, the more likely they are to be a language inventor.

Which he wouldn’t be.

Chorus line of people.
Dancing till they make us stop.

Games continue to get cheaper to make as middleware improves and advancing hardware lessens the need for optimisation. If companies choose to spend more on games despite this then that’s their problem.

Unfortunately the USA hates public transit.

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And the prevalence of guillotine-posting here shows that that attitude transcends political affiliation.

What are you doing, step pyramid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUjG1HSSaGI

Basically everything Nintendo makes is AA, they just charge AAA+ prices for them.

Normally in a democracy you’d expect the voters to keep the politicians from violating those unwritten rules, but Americans gonna American.

I mean, we all knew that the NRA was on the fascists’ side, but what about all those leftist gun owners that kept spamming the “under no pretext” quote after every school shooting? Surely they’ll be starting their glorious revolution any minute now, right?

Neither Astro Boy or William Wallace are American, though.