Camacho

Late VGM Friday post
Anniversaries
Crash Bandicoot Warped (25), Castlevania: Rondo of Blood ( 30), Red Dead Redemption 2 (5) and Super Mario Bros. 2 (35)
Reg contribution
^Sonic finds himself in an oil refinery in Los Santos
Usually only do 1 sonic track but I was missing another random out of my playlist since I've been so busy and I've been listening to this new release all day so...

Sega wants Sonic to catch up and surpass Mario
https://mynintendonews.com/2023/11/01/sega-says-they-want-to-catch-up-to-mario-and-then-surpass-him/
It's nice to want things

Microsoft bans 'unauthorized' third-party Xbox controllers and accessories
 
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-bans-unauthorized-third-party-xbox-controllers-and-accessories-124703807.html?fbclid=IwAR250qenj3cPtp3td4xXWQldNAH6o7ZUrH3Yo4wxY4BKsThbqpT3gf2qWsw

A GameBoy COLOR game?? 😂 Why??
 
Interesting that they got Stoker's blessing. I still have a copy of that sequel Dacre Stoker wrote to the original novel, but I haven't read it. Maybe that'll be next on my reading list. 
 
For the record, that prologue to the original novel they were talking about HAS been published before. I have a copy of the novel that includes it. Interesting that they're making reference to it in this game.

Think about it Thursday 
 
 

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I'll probably finish it at some point. I have to disagree with you on throwing out Dracula and just about everything established being for the better. The whole thing feels like they're doing their damndest to pander to Reddit communists. Forced diversity aside (Eastern European CV setting and vampire lore be damned), setting this one in the French revolution and giving it a black and white "good guys vs bad guys" spin is particularly nauseating to anyone who has actually read much about it, its immediate consequences, and its lingering aftermath. If anything, it's pretty backwards- in CV lore, the sorts of people who want to burn down everything that came before, fundamentally change man's nature, and create utopia from rivers of human blood are the ones who would side with vampires and resurrect Dracula so that he could cleanse the earth in chaos.

As for my complaint about the magic, I meant that it's lazy in that it is limited only by the writers imagination. Want to make a  shield out of a floating block of ice? Sure, but it can melt, and that same magic spigot apparently can't make more. Need to throw fire? Make some Dio horns and you're good, but the fire only does something whern we want it to, otherwise being roasted can be ignored. Need to make a bridge? Sure, let's make one appear while on the run, but you also can't just use that some magic to move lots of dirt or rocks into a boulder that crushes your enemies, nor can you just move the ground out from under them and form spikes for them to land on. The shit isn't grounded in any way- even with pure fantasy mechanisms by magic, having rules, costs, effort, and limitations laid out- more than "I'm emotionally scarred, so now I can't hadouken, even though someone who was literally enslaved and also saw their mother murdered can make dirt float"- would be much better. It's crap, and I thought it was crap in the first one too.  

Just finished another playthrough of Super Metroid, as I've done dozens of times before. Almost 30 years later and it still holds up great- what a masterpiece. 

Just finished another playthrough of Super Metroid, as I've done dozens of times before. Almost 30 years later and it still holds up great- what a masterpiece. 

Just finished another playthrough of Super Metroid, as I've done dozens of times before. Almost 30 years later and it still holds up great- what a masterpiece. 

Just finished another playthrough of Super Metroid, as I've done dozens of times before. Almost 30 years later and it still holds up great- what a masterpiece. 

Just finished another playthrough of Super Metroid, as I've done dozens of times before. Almost 30 years later and it still holds up great- what a masterpiece. 

Just finished another playthrough of Super Metroid, as I've done dozens of times before. Almost 30 years later and it still holds up great- what a masterpiece. 

Well, if I were writing it and wanted to extrapolate a story out of what's established, there's the whole Belmont family legacy thing with their eternal struggle against Dracula, training to fight vampires, facing the inevitability that Dracula will return, Shaft's life shaping him to want destruction, Shaft raising cult who wants to destroy humanity, their efforts in procuring Dracula's remains and figuring out how to resurrect him, the struggle and failure to prevent said cult from reviving Dracula, Dracula's subsequent rampage and targeting of Richter's friends and family, Richter's journey to and through Castlevania, the rescuing of villagers, his sister in law, and his fiancé (smart twist would be to have her die and be turned into a creature like when you fail to save her in SNES Dracula X), ongoing struggles with the necromancer Shaft and Shaft's ghost, encounters with the powerful overlords (bosses) along the way, the battle with Dracula himself, and following events that leave Richter feeling without purpose and susceptible to Shaft's corruption and setting the stage for SotN.
 
Instead, from what I've seen so far, we get almost nothing about the Belmonts, the little backstory we do get involves Richter being in revolutionary period America (??) before being shipped to France, a whole lot of story about  Caribbean slavery (but with vampires)  jammed into a comic book level take on the French revolution (also now with vampires), the expected Netflix-isms with gay stuff, the catholic church, and what I'm expecting to be some non binary thrown in for extra diversity points. No signs of anything to do with Dracula, more crappy magic that has no rules to play by (superman level writing laziness), and almost no focus on Richter. Only a single villain character has any sign of being more than a one dimensional 80's cartoon character, and it looks like the main reason for that is so he can commence some backdoor action later in the show. Basically, it seems like the point of the story is to lift up Netflix favored groups and slap the Castlevania label on it. There's a part where characters are talking about the revolution and Richter says something along the lines of  "I don't know anything about what you're talking about, but my job is to support you". Which is exactly what I'd expect from a Netflix writer when they have to paint someone from an unfavored group as anything other than a 2d villain.  

I watched 3 episodes of it today- doesn't seem to have much in common with the source material. Not that there was a lot to work with, but this really feels like someone just shoehorned some CV characters into an unrelated story they wanted to create, and of course it seems like Kendi signed off on it. I didn't think the first CV Netflix series was that great either, but at least it stayed somewhat in line with the established story and characters. But to be fair, I don't like anime or this image comics anime-ish style in general. 
 
Honestly, I'm surprised Netflix didn't use the bolshevik revolution and frame Lenin and Stalin as heroes fighting vampires- shit, let's make them black too. Maybe they'll do a Bloodlines series one day and run with that.

Man, doesn't feel like it's been that long since MM9. MM9 is peak classic MM, only thing that sucked about it was the yellow devil and not being able to go back out for e tanks afterwards. 

Getting stuck on something stupid because you didn't catch that you could interact with it has long been one of the most annoying things in gaming.  I welcome the yellow tape, it's better than those dumb hangups or devs restoring to "detective vision".

Getting stuck on something stupid because you didn't catch that you could interact with it has long been one of the most annoying things in gaming.  I welcome the yellow tape, it's better than those dumb hangups or devs restoring to "detective vision".

This Cait Sith situation describes the absurdity of our times perfectly. Final Fantasy VII  is 26 years old. The internet has been a thing for two decades. Extreme, soft serve, internet butt hurt has been a thing for like 7 or 8 years. I literally heard about this like a month ago. All the clickbait nonsense that Kraptaku, Puritygon, and The Lamer shits out, and this hasn't been click farmed before now? Granted I don't frequent Rejectera, so I may have missed it. 

I watched 3 episodes of it today- doesn't seem to have much in common with the source material. Not that there was a lot to work with, but this really feels like someone just shoehorned some CV characters into an unrelated story they wanted to create, and of course it seems like Kendi signed off on it. I didn't think the first CV Netflix series was that great either, but at least it stayed somewhat in line with the established story and characters. But to be fair, I don't like anime or this image comics anime-ish style in general. 
 
Honestly, I'm surprised Netflix didn't use the bolshevik revolution and frame Lenin and Stalin as heroes fighting vampires- shit, let's make them black too. Maybe they'll do a Bloodlines series one day and run with that.

What he said actually makes a lot of sense.  Most components now a days have some sort of relay or something in the circuitry that will trip when stuff is starting to get too hot and it basically shuts everything off.  Relays also make a physical "click" sound when they switch over, similar to like how if you first turn a TV on or something, sometimes you hear a clicking sound.  But you said it made a popping sound which to me sounds like it is louder than that, but perhaps it is the same type of functionality, and it stays tripped until your PS5 got below a certain temperature.
 
It's kind of similar to how most modern PCs will shut itself down if the CPU is getting too hot as a way to keep itself from burning up the CPU before it is too late, except it's at the PSU level. 
 
But if it IS overheating, that does mean you need to figure out why that is happening.  Maybe take a compressed air can to the vents on the PS5 and see if any crap blows out of it.
 
At least that is my theory and I'm sticking to it!
 
(not an electronics expert by any means but have dabbled a bit into it)