Oh no poor Amazon.*

*Would be happy to see Amazon disappear from this earth

Right. I’m literally missing nothing of value by not going there.

People like to think they are missing something. But they aren’t.

“But my [topic of interest] isn’t on [some other platform]!” Then be the change. Stop lurking and make it if you want to see it. That thing started off small at Reddit and Twitter, too. They just have the momentum of being around for a decade or more.

Lemmy Mastodon Bluesky

These are my main social media platforms now.

I might hit a Reddit link here or there because occasionally the information I need is posted there (that I found from a web search). But I don’t browse that site ever any more.

Deleted Twitter because of elon. Deleted Facebook after Cambridge Analytica. Never had Instagram (will never download a Meta app at this point).

You might try Ebay if it’s available where you are.

I just did a quick search and found some ~$30 which I think was around the MSRP.

That reminds me that I do have Shulk as well. I had just moved recently, and a lot of those things are still in a box.

Honestly, the Shulk may have better detail than the Noah and Mio. But I love Noah and Mio a little bit more anyway 🙂.

I ended up spending the $40 or whatever to get the Mio and Noah Amiibo, and they are sitting on my desk right now.

I’m so sad I didn’t get the steelbook case for the game when I had the chance. I had waffled because while I like XC2, it was just OK for me. I don’t know if I wanted to spend the extra money on the steelbook at the time. XC3 is in my top five favorite games, too, now.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3

I started a New Game + on Switch 2, and while it doesn’t have a resolution or graphical update (please, Nintendo), it now never has a frame dip so it does feel better to play.

This game is still probably my favorite of the last generation. I love these characters to death. It’s fun to see the story again from the start knowing where it’s going and to also to absolutely stomp everything because I started at level 88.

But yeah, the story is awesome, and it makes me have real feelings in a way basically no other game has done. So good.

This is going to be so good.

After basically going all of 2024 with the Switch 1 winding down its life cycle it’s fun to see new games again.

Nintendo just sold 3.5 million Switch 2s in about four days.

I think they’ll survive.

They seemed to have a lot of units available last weekend, so I’m sure that helped.

I’m really enjoying mine! It’s a good system.

I have been waiting to see if Splatoon 3 would get an update for Switch 2, so this is great!

Though I’m somewhat hesitant to spend $85 on the game plus the DLC.

I may end up trying to get a used copy of the game and THEN just buy the DLC separately.

Tears of the kingdom feels so much better.

No stuttering at all in towns, buttery smooth framerates. Great HDR. It’s so good.

Got mine last night, and it’s great!

The system feels more premium, Mario Kart is really fun (and that map is huge!). Zelda at 60fps HDR is something else. It’s so smooth. I’m envious of people that get to play it this way for their first time. I’m going to go back and try to get more koroks.

I’m glad Nintendo has a system I don’t feel bad buying certain games on again!

Haven’t we kinda dealt with this issue already on discs?

I can’t think of a physical disc I have bought for my PS5 that does nothing more than download the game to the system once I put it in - with whatever current updated version it is. And I still have to put the disc in to verify I have the physical media - even though it never checks the disc after that point.

And you might say, “Well some of the discs have the whole game on them!” OK, sure. But they immediately download the latest updates once you install the game. And unless I have never seen it, I don’t think there’s a “roll back to X version” option anywhere.

Makes sense. The cards can hold a max of 64GB, so any game below that size should be on the card. Any game bigger will have a download.

TotK is something else. It’s so good.

The mechanics on how Air Ride plays is pretty different than Mario Kart. Instead of just pressing A to go, your little star goes automatically but then when you hold A that starts to slow you down, and that’s how you are able to make turns. And then when you release A you get a little boost of speed.

That sounds weird, and it is a little, but it’s not just simply another kart racer. It feels much different to play.

I’m all in, baby.

I’m really excited for an official way to get TotK in 60fps. No, I don’t want to emulate. I still sometimes turn that game on to walk around and stumble upon stuff. It’s great. And with that app, I may actually try to get all the Korok seeds.

This sentence alone is why Linux is a hard sell for the average person.

Yeah, every time I have ever tried Gimp, attempting to do anything felt like someone had purposefully been contrarian and made every operation work in the hardest and most confusing way.

And someone may say, “well, you just have to learn it!” OK, sure. Or I can use something that makes much more sense from the jump like Affinity Photo. (Yes, I know you have to pay for it, but it’s worth it. Yes, I know not everyone has the money to do so.)