I appreciate the record-straightening here. You’re doing good work
I appreciate the record-straightening here. You’re doing good work
But of course the anti-war protests were also inextricably tied up with civil rights protests happening at the same time.
The people who actually make these games have said that the timeline in Hyrule Historia is little no more than elevated fanfiction, because they don’t follow it when making their games. It’s all retcon and forced connections.
People who want them to have some shared continuity as if they’re a real history might as well make a timeline for Mario too. It’s silly, and misses the point
Headline is misleading. There is no canon timeline and never has been, regardless of what officially-licensed book it was published in.
The game designers have said many times that they don’t take any sort of timeline into account when designing a new Zelda game. They nail down the mechanics, and the story comes next, and if it happens to match up thematically in relation to another game, that’s just a bonus.
Oh of course, the list of horrors is endless. Philosophers desperate to maintain the existence of a benevolent deity have wrestled for two thousand years to solve the problem of evil, and none of them ever came any closer than shrugging and presuming that there must be an unsurmountable flaw in our understanding of the universe that blinds us to his plan. A flaw in us, his allegedly perfect creation. Whoops, there’s that nagging contradiction again.
Canonically speaking, according to the lore, God is a huuuuge dick, so if you believe God exists at all, it’s not hard to believe he’s up there throwing hurricanes and fires at us just because he can. Because he’s a dick.
Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.
I used to get up early on Saturdays to watch cartoons, and remember being really bummed when they weren’t on because Saddam Hussein was invading Kuwait.
And I can sort of mentally mark when I started to sleep in later because by the time I got up all I managed to catch was Saved By the Bell before the broadcast switched to a golf tournament or a fishing show.
And ATMs charge fees, which you don’t pay if you use the teller.
“Real old heads”? Blu-rays are older than Silly Bandz.
My bluetooth headphones still do this when I use the microwave at work. I have learned to stand back from it when it’s in use.
Apple IIe’s in the computer lab at school, magazines with whole programs in basic that you could type in to make the computer draw something.
Road trips with Prairie Home Companion on tape, Dad was at the wheel, and Mom flipped the tapes. I didn’t quite grok that there was a big plastic case full of cassettes, so hearing “turn to side eight” mystified me, because surely tapes could only have two sides, right?
That smell is Christmas to me. That was the only time we typically got new NES or Super NES games, and lord I loved that smell of fresh print and plastic.
I remember always resenting Prince Valiant for taking up valuable page space that could have gone to Calvin and Hobbes or something else that didn’t suck. Good lord, Prince Valiant was fucking terrible.
One of my first vehicles came with an aftermarket ten-disc cd-changer someone had installed in the back and hooked into the sound system, with a separate control panel up front. It was such a pain to use (and would skip constantly) that I usually just listened to the radio anyway.
And you didn’t have to update it constantly with patches that might change its functionality.
It was channel 4 for us, because channel 3 was the local CBS affiliate and it would interfere with the signal from the NES. There was a switch on the console to flip between 3 and 4, because it varied depending on location which channel was optimal.
Channel 3 was CBS, 5 was ABC, 12 was NBC, and that was it.
The ABC affiliate would also broadcast Sesame Street because for most of my childhood, we didn’t have a local public television station. When we finally did get one, you had to get cable to pick it up where I lived. I have vague memories of having cable in the house for a brief time around the time the ABC station stopped carrying the show, but my parents dropped it pretty soon afterward when we started to want to watch exclusively Nickelodeon. At least I always assumed that was the cause, but the cost of cable was probably a bigger factor. They compensated for that by recording movies that came on network TV with the VCR, and we happily rewatched those constantly instead of whatever we were missing on cable. We had whole shelves full of just VHS tapes full of movies recorded off the TV.
Happy beanniversary. The standard gift is beans.