@Pedro: "I remember loving this game despite its clunkiness"

One could say this about pretty much every game that Piranha Bytes has ever made. The Gothic, Risen, and Elex games all have great ideas with brilliant open-world gameplay and freedom of choice marred by lack of polish and budget.

@mrbojangles25: I didn't name any by name or location but when I said "high quality buffets" I was actually exclusively thinking of Las Vegas buffets like at the Bellagio or the Wynn.

But yeah, I agree. I'd rather go to a high-end steakhouse or sushi restaurant than a buffet.

Check out "True Story" on Netflix. It's a series where he stars with Kevin Hart. Not an action film or anything but it's the best thing he's done in years that I've seen.

I think it cuts both ways. The game development web series Extra Credits did a video that basically addressed the same question but in regards to video game music with the idea that there was a general perception that game music from early games was way better/more memorable than modern game music. Something they pointed out was that when dealing with the tools of the early console gaming, they had less to work with. Games from that era only had a few channels of midi synthesizer music to work with so the writing was more focused on the melody than anything else. Songs with strong melodies tend to be memorable, or at least you remember the melody. Everyone remembers the music from games like Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, and Castlevania. Compare that to an overloaded orchestral score from something like a modern COD game that suits the action at the time but leaves your brain the second you aren't listening to it anymore.

Same early games had strong stories and/or writing because the story was most of what you had to work with. Hell, text adventures were literally just words. The flipside of that is true as well, though. Modern games have all kinds of ways that they can deliver story woven into the gameplay other than long cutscenes of exposition dump. The Last of Us had amazing writing, characters, delivery, etc but it wasn't known for grinding the game to a halt for 20-minute cutscenes like MGS4 or Quantum Break. Games can have as much or as little story these days as they want because there's so much more "game" that can be included, or they can use all of the tools available to them to deliver a great story through the modern mechanics themselves.

Spammer necro bump.

I like ellipticals, particularly for recovery. They were my main form of rehab cardio when I was recovering from knee surgery.

Never assume what? That when you use words you'll use the ones that mean what you say?

Ummm, ok. Noted, I guess?

Like others in this thread, I grew up on flight sims on PC so inverted was my default. My kids did not, so they preferred non-inverted. I got tired of flipping the controls back and forth between us so I just got used to playing non-inverted. It took a bit to get used to but it was not what I'd call a hard adjustment.

Flight/space sims I play on HOTAS and I play those as intended. I wouldn't call that "inverted" in those cases, though, since they are accurately emulating the thing they are simulating.

BJJ and more recently Muay Thai. Normal cardio is the most mind numbingly boring thing a person can do, and I've had two ACL surgeries (both knees) so I'm not a huge fan of jogging.

During the height of the pandemic, I got back into DDR in a big way though. I had a friend who used to come over to my house and play on my setup during his lunch break. I used to play with him and I got back into it when I needed a cardio option that wouldn't bore me to tears.

You did, whether you meant to or not. "The great unwashed" is literally an expression describing the socially/economically disadvantaged.

Regarding buffets, I personally only really go for them when it's because it's a buffet that's known for particularly high quality content (or at least really, really tasty). There are a few choice ones in Vegas that I'll head to, but generally when I eat my goal isn't to cram as much food into my gullet as humanly possible. Haven't been to one since the pandemic, though.