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Steel yourselves - the Harry Potter Universes Beyond is inevitable. It will start with a Secret Lair and sell out in nanoseconds, then blossom into a main set.

To assist those of you that play MTG, I will pre-write some excuses for you. When (not IF) it happens, feel free to use them.

Seems my Wii U games got hit with this the worst

Mario Kart 8 disc

Mario Kart 8 disc with light shining onto it, revealing patches of mold.

Mold growing on some of my games 🤢 Guess the last house I lived in was too humid. You wouldn't even notice unless you hold it against the light a certain way. I'm taking today to wipe all my discs with distilled water and a microfibre cloth.

I feel the same way.

Wario Land title screen on Super Game Boy 2

Wario and two powerup blocks

Wario standing underwater near a giant powerup block with a polite expression

Wario Land world map

#ScanlineSunday

The powerup blocks in this game do the flushed 😳 emote.

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 // MiSTer FPGA Super Game Boy core // RGB scart 240p // Panasonic PAL consumer CRT

Launch model 3DS son vs pale pink 2DS daughter

Solatorobo box

Back of Solatorobo's box

Interior of Solatorobo's box, containing the manual and cartridge

Solatorobo's manual, showing some flavour text about Hunters

#RandomGameSaturday

This boxart is so funny. It's like, mere hours before it went to print, they suddenly became scared that nobody would buy the game if they weren't promised the ability to pilot a powerful robot.

I think it's tragic that physical media basically doesn't exist in the realm of PC gaming anymore and we don't talk about it enough. I would ditch my PS5 in a heart beat if PC games got physical releases.

I am so so grateful for music. Every day can be wonderful, thanks to music.

Fantastic interpretation of the character, well done

FF7 Remake activates my Rebuild of Evangelion PTSD

That Manawave art may just be Hiroo Isono's finest work

Yeh on GBC. It's very cute.

Knight enemy from Castlevania

Two statues in Castlevania; the one on the right is broken

Simon Belmont in Castlevania and a tower in the background

Simon Belmont in Castlevania, climbing stairs under a large crescent moon

#ScanlineSunday

Cool aesthetic, great music, brutal challenge but secret broken strats to discover, generous checkpoints... This one's a classic.

Castlevania // MiSTer FPGA NES core // RGB scart 240p // Panasonic PAL consumer CRT

This mf

Pikmin 2 box

Back of Pikmin 2 box

Open Wii game case, showing the disc and manual for Pikmin 2

Spine of New Play Control! Pikmin 2

#RandomGameSaturday

Of all the games I played in my teenage years, this is my number 1 favourite! I have many, many fond memories of crawling through caves and reading the Piklopedia while listening to rain hit the windows on a cold winter's night.

Anything for the possibility of ditching those pesky employees and their goddamn wages

Understood 🫡

This is so cool...

It's so cool...

Two slices of toast with creme fraiche, blackberries and walnuts on them, a knife and a fork, all on a wooden board

Blackberries on toast with creme fraiche, toasted walnuts and chopped dill.

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

I'm always happy to see the sword girl from your game

Unless it's actually Wonder.

Maturing is realising that Super Mario Land really did have the best music in 2D Mario all along.

Close-up of world 1 map in DKC2 on a CRT TV

Close-up of Dixie on the DKC2 title screen on a CRT TV

Diddy and a dead vulture in DKC2 on a CRT TV

Mine level from DKC2 on a CRT TV. Dixie is sitting in the bottom left.

Last-minute #ScanlineSunday before I go to bed. When I played DKC trilogy on NSO I couldn't stop thinking about how much nicer they'd look on a CRT. I'm grateful to have that now.

Donkey Kong Country 2 // MiSTer FPGA SNES core // RGB scart 240p // Panasonic PAL consumer CRT

My Bluesky settings page with an ugly-looking feed promoted by Bluesky highlighted on the right.

What the hell is this?

Box of Crash Mind Over Mutant

Back of Crash Mind Over Mutant's box

Spine of Crash Mind Over Mutant's box

Copy of Crash Mind Over Mutant in an open Wii game case with a black safety instructions booklet

#RandomGameSaturday

I only have this because a roommate back in my college days moved out (without telling anybody; I just woke up one day and he was gone) and forgot it. He also took my Classic Controller with him I was mad about it for like a whole week.

Black spoon, chopsticks and a bowl containing kimchi and a halved egg, all on a wooden board

Kimchi and ajitama on rice

This patch file (follow the ROM information carefully) on your emulator, flash cart or FPGA console of choice. The translation is dated in a couple areas because we all were very stupid back then. There's a Switch remake but the atmosphere doesn't hit the same.

www.romhacking.net/translations...