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  • An history of title confusion in the Metroid series.

    1980s-1990s : no, no, the main character is not called Metroid, the lifesucking reptilian jellyfish are the metroids

    2000s : OK, the lifesucking jellyfish are supposed to be extinct now, but she’s got some DNA of them, so technically, you know, she’s kind of a metroid…?

    2020s : Metroid lady’s gonna eat your face.





  • Chronologically, it’s just after 1, starting right after Samus’s escape from Zebes. She doesn’t even leave Zebes’s star system.

    When the other Prime games take place is not clear though. It would be weird to cram all of that before 2 but I don’t think there is any other hint pointing at when they could happen compared to the 1-5 series, including Prime 4.

    If someone wanted a full main canon run, they’d have to insert that Other game between 3 and 4. Seriously, though, nobody deserves that punishment.





  • At the time the SteamVR forum was flooded with reports of connection errors, mainly Quest 3, I think some 2 too. Nobody seemed sure what caused it exactly.

    Some were adamant it was a bitrate/stream quality problem, but I reduced it till it was instant vomiting-level of quality and still couldn’t keep a connection for more than 5 minutes.

    Some said it was a wifi bandwidth issue, but I ended up using a dedicated wifi 6 router with only the ethernet-plugged PC and wireless Quest 3 on it, at like a 4 meter distance with no obstacle and it was still not working.

    The exact same hardware and configuration were flawless with VD, even better than SteamVR when it still worked.

    So yeah, I’ll try again, if for no other reason because I need something that works better with linux. Unfortunately no VD there.


  • I meed to try SteamLink/SteamVR again. It’s been completely unusable for me for more than a year, so I had given up on it for a while.

    I went for Vietual Desktop on windows and WIVRn on linux. VD worked perfectly, WiVRn was buggy but at least functional. SteamVR got utterly broken in an update and removed access to the previous functional build, Very shitty support for months.

    I hope they finally got their shit together, because, they’re not doing that as a gift. They’re selling the games. Them fucking with compatibility of previously functional hardware for months was terrible.






  • Few years ago I completed the pokedex on Gen 6/7, using transfers back from Gen 4-5. That was fun. Especially Black, the way they balanced content in BW felt very fresh IMO, and the sprite work is very nice in Gen 5.

    I kinda fell off the series after USUM, didn’t care about Let’s Go, there was the “dexit” debacle, the whole “get used to not being able to get eveyone in one game from now on”. And then the absurdly bad performance/glitch reports in new episodes.

    Pokopia is my only Pokémon-adjacent game since Ultra-Moon, and that’s mainly because I heard it was great and I liked Dragon Quest Builders 2. And, to be honest, it is a very cool game. I just finished the base game’s pokédex.