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today only, I've got d&d tomorrow!
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yessir, still happening tomorrow as well
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I updated my adapter's firmware and got it working! Same goes for my 8BitDo gamepads.
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👀👀👀
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y'all really don't understand until you try it. you can now "look at" your opponents mid game while trash talking. it's a couch-versus revelation.
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No, I'm referring to reported issues with HDR while docked.
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when you say "washed out video," do you mean......
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brief testing before I pass the heck out: neither the official Xbox 360 nor PlayStation 3 webcams work on NS2, womp womp. (an old Microsoft PC webcam DOES work, at least.) also, my 8Bitdo Pro 2 gamepad won't pair, anybody know what that's about?
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she'll bark at the Moo Moo Cow racer, I bet
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we're digging trenches and writing letters to loved ones
....light finally visible at the end of the tunnel. I just wanna get back to my dog!
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the system transfer wipes the host system and removes the account, right? if I wanna keep using my old Switch, isn't a transfer a bad idea?
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thank you for finally confirming my cool dude status
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The line has finally wrapped around the block, possibly 100. Passers-by are asking what the line is about. I lied to one car full of ppl and said a new pot shop was opening and that we are all gonna get high. All four in the car nodded and said "ohhhh, cool!"
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ugh the ass-kissiness of the latest model turns my stomach so hard, like it's been trained on every email written to Satya, Mark, and E**n in the past 10 years
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...but, again, since Switch 1 launched, all of the most likely contenders bombed on that front, too. Stadia? LOL. Xbox? Welp. Netflix Gaming? We're still waiting for whatever market-shifting idea they have. It's Nintendo's world, and we're all just preordering inside of it. /t
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Nintendo eventually adjusted to a two-platform strategy (ie Pokemon saved the home-console line's ass), and now they're up to, uh, five entertainment platforms? More? Which gives them more space to be conservative. That, of course, reeks of opportunity for an upstart to disrupt Nintendo...
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Nintendo enjoyed relative insulation, via a region-locked gaming market, to experiment with Japan-only iterations like Famicom Disk Drive, SNES Satellaview, and 64 Disk Drive. But tocks like those failed in a MUCH different entertainment marketplace, where failure could mean fewer Mario fans.
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Remember, we're over eight years since Switch 1 launched. Have you seen ANY other company come close to replicating its hardware and software ecosystem? Nope. Which gives Nintendo even more runway to monopolize the portable/home hybrid market and R&D the hell out of the Next Nintendo Thing (NNT).
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So a good "tock" in 2025 can succeed by selling *just* enough hardware and software, maintaining exclusives, keeping an evangelical core audience engaged, and toying with new IP, all while Nintendo gets better at films, in-person experiences, and other profit-driving forms of entertainment.
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Answer: hold until the next "tick" makes sense, whatever form it takes. They have enough yen in the bank to slow down device-sales profit, maintain a gaming customer status quo, and shift their longtime "blue ocean" plan by expanding sales of entertainment to more types—and thus more customers.
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Especially now, tick vs. tock misses the mark, because since Switch 1's launch, Nintendo has shifted into identifying as an "entertainment" company. Films, theme parks, even smartphone presence: They're setting up a decades-long plan to Disney-fy. What does that mean in the games-selling short term?
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I argue that SNES and N64 each moved the needle *just* enough for their classification, in ways that GBA and GC did not. (The NES-to-SNES gap in both time and tech is the clincher for me.) And tick vs tock is not necessarily an indicator of success or revenue, just more historical context.
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Nintendo's big "tick"s: NES, SNES, GB, N64, VB, DS, Wii, Switch. And their "tock"s: GBC, FDD, Satellaview, 64DD, GBA, GC, 3DS, Wii U, and Switch 2. (Not even gonna try to classify their Game & Watch and arcade boards.) You can likely piece out my differentiation: big swings versus iterations.
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...what sequel, I can't find anything about an additional game? Or is the update the sequel?
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citing the health of.... her flimsy rhetoric?
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Also, I'm a longtime D5 resident (Moore's district) who's about had enough of this council. And I am underemployed. So, I guess if anyone in Seattle's north end has their eyes on 2026 and needs a hand, HMU.
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brb writing this up without crediting you (kidding! holy shit! great scoop!)
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I'm gonna add: we are NOT learning enough from the modern bubble-then-pop economy of the past, uh, 40 years. Even with AI, an industry I loathe, it'll be the same thing: real ppl w families who need jobs are all doomed in ~3-5 years, and the top cats'll make off with the dough. Like, what do we DO.
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It sounds like you said you prefer talking to automated voice systems. Did I get that right? I'm sorry, I didn't understand. It sounds like you said you prefer talking to automated voice systems. Did I get that right? Hmm, I didn't quite understand you. Let's try something else.