I tried that and got all the way to the Water Temple before I turned to ol' reliable Nintendo Power.

Welp. I was unable to purchase the tickets. Oh well. Hopefully there will be a video.

To be fair, the chili cheese burrito is the best item Taco Bell has ever had, so every chance to get it as a limited edition item is the utmost display of affection.

I was not expecting to enjoy this, but it was incredible.

TOONAMI: WEDNESDAY Intro (Moltar) #Wednesday 📺

As a Commander player, I am naturally terrible at Arena and reading.

There was quite a bit of it in that game!

Weirdly enough, the first game that scared me was Zelda 2, particularly the game over screen.

Or maybe I just really like Bomberman and should try the new game on the Switch.

After all the money I just spent on old electronics, am I really going to start reading physical books again? I joke, but the past few days have been really nice, and a major source of frustration on the train is losing service in the middle of doomscrolling.

Overall, it feels like the momentum of our lives is broken up constantly by constant waits. There's no flow to go with anymore. Maybe it's always been like that, but without things like smart phones, people had smoother ways of managing in-between times, like commutes and such.

My main TV is pretty old. It's a Pioneer from 2008 that a friend's parents gave me when they moved out of state. It takes a bit to start up, but everyone else I know has a TV that takes what feels like forever, especially if they're doing anything with the word "smart" attached to it.

I also find that I'm not as anxious about "losing," because whatever progress I've lost can easily be regained by playing the game and not waiting on dozens of tiny loading screens. Plus, if I turn off the game, I can just turn it back on again and it's back to the races almost immediately.

Don't get me wrong. Some of my favorite games of all time have released in the past twenty years. Many of them were absolutely massive experiences. But I know that if I could get a new game, bring it home, and be playing it in under a minute, I'd be playing more video games.

Welp, ran out of characters before I could start playing a game. That's not even mentioning that every other time I turn on the console, it or the game or both have to update.

Or instead of doing all that, I can hit two power buttons and be playing a game within thirty seconds. Or sooner.

That is, if I want to play a video game, I have to turn on my TV, wait for it to wake up, turn on my game console, wait for that to wake up, turn on game mode, navigate a menu, select a game from dozens of icons, wait for it to load, pick a save file, wait for that to load, and then I can finally pl

Playing old games on the Super Famicom and the VB, I'm kind of justified in something that annoys me about modern gaming.

It's never too late to try again.