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LOL that's such a valid reason

He's said some very wonky shit about work ethic & worker management on his channel, but it's still cool to publicise so much knowledge about game-making, esp when it's usually very much safeguarded by Nintendo corp to maintain the image of the "nintendo magic" of video games. The more we demystify how anything in our world is made the better imo

Japan has plenty problematic cultural aspects, but the tendency for some big companies to use directors that frequently are obsessed enough to do stuff like ditch capitalist incentives in favour of their 'vision' is always a good'un to see.

Honestly the older I get the more sense this stuff makes and the more I appreciate this. Life is too short for loading screens.

This man protected me from an ad and that makes him a hero in my book

Me and my sis played the fuck out of that game (port when?) thanks for giving us those 100 seconds back king 🙏

“If you take one second from each user, that means you’ll be taking 10,000 seconds from 10,000 people. The more this repeats over the years, the more time you will cause players to lose.”

Sakurai has joined rhetorical forces with the anti nuclear crowd

this is really funny

To be real, how many of you even actually know what Dolby Surround is or refers to? No snark, genuinely wonder. Bonus points because Sakurai is using the wrong term for it here.

Multichannel is cool in racing games, like Forza Motorsport 4 is cool in 5.1 but for Air Ride it was probably the right call cutting it to save bootup time, given how few people likely had their Gaemcoobs hooked up to a hifi.