I remember one booth sat on three copies of Chrono Trigger for the DS. All with weird various prices. Some had the first print posters. Most exceeded $200 and they’d barely budge if you tried bargaining for the actual asking price of the game. I stopped going to that booth after that interaction.

I went to my second retro games convention during the summer. I had a good time and was able to walk away with some good to decent deals. But looking back at my photos proves your statement. The folks who hid their stuff behind glass had the worst deals and barely sold anything…

When I was running an anime club in high school I edited a video with a couple catchy OPs that could get people’s attention at club recruitment day. Baccano used to be an easily identifiable series to get people interested in anime. It’s kinda upsetting to see its manufactured obsolescence.

FUCKIN’ PEAK!! 🔥🔥✨✨

This is exactly why I’ve been a patron for years.

not the first nor the last time Bava’s cinematography on a film became the main attraction for watching a film

three years away from that reality lol! I’m already an aunt and watching my friends around me get married. let it be known I wish to remain vigilant against mind rot generation bashing when the alphas and bellow become the stars of every headline.

Side Note: Wolfwalkers is also one of the few truly perfect animated films. If you’ve slept on it, please correct your mistake

The closure of EA Sports BIG and other more arcadey sports games really hurt the diversity of the genre. Now their games are a capital-S simulation series that only appeals to its rapidly aging demographic. Your only other options these days are Nintendo Switch Sports and… Backyard Games(?).

[EPILOGUE]: if you’re upset at the current state of Nintendo or games as a whole, instead of continuing to support their ventures why not give some of that attention (and/or money) to the indie scene. They need your eyeballs more than ever in our current monopolistic totalitarian media sphere.

Point of all this? It’s just really interesting watching the 5-10 year shift in opinions on whether Nintendo is cool or the literal devil of gaming. And the points of defending used to justify or demonize them. Forever making it blindingly apparent how little people understand their hobby’s history

It’s kinda unfair to compare the price structure of cartridges to the modern mostly downloadable focused models, yet I will say Nintendo is no stranger to the tier based games pricing. They’re just really good at smelling blood in the water.

Of course the difference is also that Nintendo usually keeps their employees… employed. So you have some degree of trust the money you spend goes to keeping its staff on the payroll. Unlike 90% of AAA studios. (cough cough) Microsoft… excuse me, I’m getting over a cold

Nintendo catching up to the current trends in the games industry forever puts them in the hot seat. Only difference is when they slap a $80 sticker on a game it comes with little actual pushback. Microsoft got bullied into dropping the $80 games quota, Nintendo is rewarded with chart topping sales.

To this very day I get people asking if I picked my name after Ramona Flowers. Even from other tgirls. While I’m legally obliged to not deny my Scott Pilgrim bias, I swear to god it was not the sole reason. Everyone who knew me by my old name agrees that I’m a Ramona. And that’s why it stuck.

When my brother changed his name I originally thought it was a requirement for trans people to stick with the first letter of their dead name. Turns out we as humans have freewill of choice. Who knew? Also Ramona has Cuban heritage so I was honoring my ancestors better than my white bread dead name

the public yearn once again for tradition

this you?

anyways, the class was dreadful. I do not wish the curse of being in high school in 2016 to anyone. probably one of the worst periods of my entire life