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Yeah I grabbed that SNES app right after I got home from work. Was about to start schooling the 8 year old on Mario Kart when the baby interrupted us

I have Diablo 3 and it's not doing it for me like I had hoped. Probably just gonna do another run through Diablo II next time I get the itch. But Torchlight II is pretty cheap too. Guess I'll wishlist out for now and wait for a sale price.

"Closer to the Heart" has been an enduring fan favourite since it was released on A Farewell to Kings (possibly my #1 fav Rush album) in 1977. It's a rock radio staple.

Any of you PC gamers play Torchlight II before? Is it any good? Caught my eye on the eShop.

Tom Sawyer Freewill Limelight A few big ones. Surely you've heard them on the radio or somewhere. "Closer to the Heart", "Spirit of Radio", "The Trees", "Subdivisions", "Fly By Night", "Working Man", ... there's no way you haven't heard at least a couple of these tunes.

I will fix that! Get ready for a bunch of YouTube videos coming tonight. You don't think you have heard "Tom Sawyer" even?

Now you're talking my language I've been working on the bass lines from some songs off of Fly By Night by Rush this week, so I've been listening to "Anthem", "Best I Can", and "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" a bunch. "Anthem" is a top notch album opener. Also Jay Som's new album And some Steely Dan too, gotta study those Chuck Rainey bass lines

Gotta give a new game a big push. Maybe they're tired of Pokemon.

Depending on the price, I'm interested in Little Town Hero

Huh, I missed that SNES announcement. I'm looking forward to this! Got my bluetooth SNES-style 8bitdo controller all ready to go All I've played this week, if you can call it playing, is Pokemon X with my daughter. She's the one playing. I'm just referencing a FAQ to help her get through to the last badge she needs. I'm impressed how well she's done figuring the game out to this point since she doesn't really play games much - nowhere near as much as I did at that age. I'm finding this more fun than actually playing a game myself. We're going to play Pokemon Sword together when it comes out ?

I had a Game Boy but when I saw a friend's Game Gear I wanted one *so* bad. Had to give up my Game Boy for it. I guess I mostly regret that choice, but I did also have a lot of fun with a handful of Game Gear games.

I Wishlist'd this on the eShop when it was "coming soon" but then totally forgot to follow up Thanks for the reminder! I guess this is next on my to-buy list.

I'm interested in Showdown

Sounds like a bad combo indeed. I'd totally FAQ my way through it too. (If I'm being honest, these days with time constraints and an increasingly short attention span, I will use walkthroughs on most RPGs... )

I think the last episode alluded to the sick older sister having imparted some knowledge on people..?

Popped up in my recommendations on Netflix last week so I checked it out. Violet Evergarden was a real hit for me, so I figured why not try another Netflix anime. Didn't take long for me to get sucked in, and I just finished last night. The wife even watched parts of it with me and started getting into it. (She's usually more of the, "Why are you still watching cartoons " type so that kinda took me by surprise) Netflix is still batting 1.000 with me Anybody else watch this? What'd you think? It's apparently been renewed for a second season, so keep an eye out.

Yeah, really great animation. I'm happy if Netflix wants to throw as much money as possible at good studios and directors The story was a bit hard to follow at first, maybe a bit unnecessarily complicated, but it all came together for me eventually. I love a good mystery so the detective parts were very interesting to me too. Gilbert was one fucked up dude

I'm not a big Zelda fan aside from maybe 2 or 3 of the games, so I'm probably biased, but to me that sounds like the description of any older Zelda game I gotta get going in Diablo again. Not enough time in the day...

Her new album dropped a few days ago, Anak Ko. It's pretty darn good! For those unfamiliar: She basically does what people "bedroom pop" or "dream pop", which I guess when you listen feels like an appropriate genre name; although this latest effort is perhaps a bit less lo-fi. I haven't read the credits for Anak Ko, but I know on previous albums she's played a lot of the parts (guitar, bass, drums) on several tracks. As a wannabe-multi-instrumentalist, I really appreciate the DIY approach. She does tour with a band though and maybe they got to play more on this album. I dunno. Any other fans out there?

I dunno man, the Dodgers are so good. Kinda hard to believe this Dodger team hasn't won a World Series... But you're right, if anybody is going to give them a hard time then it looks like it would be the Braves (right now at least...)

Bit of a rough stretch for the Jays lately, but you can't fault them for losing to the Dodgers. LAD has too many good players - they can't fit them all in the lineup. Such a stacked team. Nice to see a win last night though. Bo is the best.

Been too busy with my guitars and catching up on anime in the evenings. Haven't had a chance to keep going in Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon. So that's on the todo list for the weekend.

I can't tell if I'm watching this show because I genuinely enjoy it or if I'm just hate-watching I like some of the developments at the village but I would also like to get Taiju and Yuzuriha back into the story.

Taiju is the best character in this whole show

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