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But rather, it was Nintendo's absolutely asinine decision to not at least port Echoes and Corruption to the Switch before release, let alone a remaster. For people who first jumped into this series, and like to do everything square and don't feel comfortable with emulation, having only the Metroid Prime 1 remaster and MP4 available to play on Nintendo's current gen console can absolutley give the player a sense of whiplash had they not known the direction that the Prime series was headed in before the hiatus. Having Corruption be playable on current gen Nintendo hardware could have had the effect of tempering expectations that people had of MP4 being "MP1 2.0" and signaled to players the fact that Beyond was going to be more similar to Corruption than MP1.

I keep hearing conflicting stories about how that lineup of Styx ended up breaking up. Some people say that it was just a continuation of the same old fighting and drama between Dennis and JY that existed since the Cornerstone era, but I'm also hearing that they were actually getting along in that period and wanted to do a follow-up album with Glen Burtnik but A&M basically said "no Tommy, no Styx" and dumped them because of that.

Its an interesting era because a lot of people in the media were treating that era as Styx's "big comeback", arguably even moreso than the Return to Paradise era when Tommy did eventually return. They made appearances on Rick Dees Into The Night and Arsenio Hall, Love is The Ritual got attention on Headbangers Ball, they were headlining arenas on the ensuing tour, and then it all went poof in 92 like it never happened.

I mean, when it gets to the point where on ANY post talking about Michael or Paris, the mods set it to "approved users only", it can't be any more obvious that they're still trying to control the narrative. The truth is, more and more people are waking up to the truth by the day, more and more people, some of whom aren't even big Michael Jackson fans, are doing unbiased research into the facts behind the allegations, the court documents, the trial etc. and they're finding out that it's all been one big giant heap of bullshit from day one. Michael Jackson is innocent because the cold hard facts prove that he is, not because he "dANCeD GooD" or "mADE ThRIlleR"

But of course, we're all apparently "RaPE ApoLoGIsTs aNd ViCtim BlamERs" because we dare view something from an objective lens rather than an emotional one, which ironically, is what they accuse MJ fans of doing.

We all know that Top Thrill 2 had a severely rocky start, but since it's re-opening in 2025, it's been rather consistently operating and has gotten rather rave reviews. The former Senzafiato, now ThunderVolt at PNE Playland as well as the new Naruto coaster has gotten pretty positive reviews as well. Personally, I think that the fact that TT2 is now up and running on a regular basis and has more uptime than the OG TTD shows that they are indeed capable of breaking through in the extreme coaster market, but I feel like they really need that "Lech Coaster" moment, a ride that makes ALL enthusiasts pay attention. The Thunderbolt model had potential, but was unfortunately plagued with really uncomfortable restraints. Now that they're utilizing similar overhead lapbars that Intamin uses for their modern Blitz coasters, It'll be interesting to see if a park will buy one of their new "lightining" models.

For me, it would absolutley 100% be the pro-shot Munich 1992 concert in full. We know it exists because MJ filmed every single one of his shows and either John Branca has it, or it's in some vault in Germany. For me, that would be perfect. It would be another early Dangerous show with TWYMMF and Bad in it, the black and gold Jam jacket, WBSS and Beat It in their original key AND sung live, Black or White sung live, just an awesome show full of rarities.

I wouldn't go as relentlessly hard against people who criticize Metroid Prime 4 if they didn't rely on absolute falsehoods about MP4 to the point where anyone who actually has played it would question whether they played the same game.

For example, people who call it a "Call of Duty clone with no exploration or Metroidvania mechanics" That is the biggest line of bullshit I have ever heard in my life. From a PURELY objecive standpoint, there are several times in MP4 where you are required to explore new areas and backtrack to old areas to explore new sections in order to get upgrades previously unreachable or new abilities in order to progress further in the game, which is texbook Metroidvania gameplay. In many ways it hearkens back to Prime 2, except the planet is split into five slightly smaller areas as opposed to three larger ones, but the general formula is still the same. Explore one area, explore another area, then you have to backtrack to the previous area to get a new item to progress further.

I think it so disgusting that a cottage industry was established around trying to destroy this game and I frankly resent the fact that the Metroidvania genre's popularization completely warped people's ideas of what Metroid Prime is supposed to be like when anyone who's entirely familiar with how MP3 played out knows exactly what MP4 was going for.

Or as it's more commonly known as, the Streisand Effect. The more that antis put in the effort to try to shame people who use AI on social media or advocate for AI bans in certain communities, esepcially on reddit, the people who disagree aren't going to say "oh gee whiz I guess I can't use Seedance or Nano Banana anymore.", they're going to splinter off into their own AI-friendly communities. We see it all the time on Reddit and it's also the same with many other communities. Antis want everybody to think that AI is universally hated, but the truth is...it just isn't. Some people find it useful and other people find it simply fun to use.

While I do acknowledge that antis do have a point when it comes to the environmental impacts of data centers, a lot of the loudest anti-AI voices on social media want to propose is essentially just authoritarianism at it's core, the belief that people need to be forced to stop using AI, even if it involves draconian internet censorship laws and state sanctioned violence to enforce them. In many ways, they remind me a lot of radical vegans like Rodney Coronado and FreeleeTheBananaGirl, who back in 2015 got in major controversy for making a video where she says that people need to be forced against their will to stop eating meat or using animal products due to animal cruelty and the environmental impacts of factory farming, implying that meat eaters "don't deserve to live". I routinely see posts on Twitter, Threads, and Instagram of people straight-up saying that AI users "don't deserve to live"

I think what I find the most disgusting is the fact that most antis are willing to set aside their beliefs in a free and equitable society where everyone's human rights are respected and opressive systems are dismantled and advocate IN FAVOR of the very things they hate towards an out-group that they don't like, like somehow expressing wrongthink about AI is tantamount to someone losing their personhood.

In a nutshell, I downloaded a bunch of roms from Vimms as they're already in xiso format, the issue I have is that not all of them work. THPS2X and Conker Live and Reloaded works, but Morrowind and Amped 2 gives me the "Please Insert an xbox CD" error. I've looked everywhere on the internet but they keep saying "yOU nEEd tO coNVerT to XiSO yOU nEEd tO conVERrT to XiSO" Well...it already IS. So what's going on?

Given the fact that so many anti-AI activists are on the left side of the political sphere, whether they're liberal, progressive, or outright socialist. So many of the argumentation they'll engage in is pretty much indistiguishable from how right wing conservatives talk about video games, porn, or abortion, not to even mention the extent to which they'll essentially put a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" spin on natural drawing ability and become hella elitist if they're naturally gifted and frankly, it gives off the vibe of people who were born rich and privledged telling poor or disadvantaged/marginalized people to "quit yer bitchin' and work 80 hour work weeks and get three jobs if you want to afford rent" Like...okay? Thats not gonna inspire people to "pick up a pencil", like you want them to. Especially when they start throwing in this faux-positivity of "oh you can do it! You have it in you!" like they're talking down to a special needs kid or a dog, which honestly makes me belly laugh when you realize that what they're actually saying is "if you don't agree with me on this issue, you deserve harassment and threats uwu cat emoji sparkle emoji"

Another thing that just makes me lol is when they'll sit there and call AI an "intrinsically fascist demon technology" and then in the same vein argue that "people need to be forced to stop using it" At that point the only response should be to reverse the roles. If someone were to kick down your front door, stick a rifle in your face and say "for your next art commission, you WILL use ChatGPT for it. You don't have a choice." Would you call that a fair world to live in? No. You wouldn't. I sure as hell wouldn't.

But apparently, Im a right wing fascist giga-nazi because I dare believe in personal choice when it comes to AI, I guess.