The Nintendo Switch

gender preferences when it comes to leisure activities may very well be a thing but it's 100% not a thing i'm interested in discussing on ilx lol

everything mentioned in here is very clearly a video game, if there's a grey area it's in VNs

In other news, it's over a year since the Smart Dollhouse aspect of Fortnite brought in its first billion.

lol My daughter is now, with no prompting but hilarious timing, playing Mario Kart for the first time in months.

my daughters play games, goal-oriented (splatoon, mario odyssey) and non-goal-oriented (stardew valley), all the time. guess they're just cooler than your daughters.

Totally possible!

Speaking of amazing timing, I literally just got an email from Nintendo saying "We wanted to let you know that the components you sent to Nintendo for repair have been received." So it took a week or so after sending in my controller to get a confirmation that they got my controller!

ditto. i gave up yesterday and ordered a cheap controller.

I don't know any boys their age or younger who play with dolls or dollhouses

Still haven't broken down and got the Pro controller yet, but it feels inevitable

xps I was gonna say Fortnite is massive and ultimately a wacky dollhouse with shooting players barely care about

pro controller is really good other than the dpad being too sensitive for fighting games/puzzle games that need precision

All kids play with dolls & dollhouses, it's just that the dolls marketed to boys are called "action figures."

IMO games are all "Interesting Situation generators" and predefined goals and competition are just means to create the Interesting Situation, and by no means the only ones games can use.

I have come to terms with the fact that the Pro Controller dpad sucks, and I'm thinking about getting one of those 8bitdo ones. They look pretty good.

I'm hoping that after my controller is repaired it'll play better. I use the pro exclusively when I play on the TV, joycons in portable mode, but the drift issue was a PIA.

i get the point, but Fortnite is def a shooter first and the crafty bits are not rly dollhouse-y c'mon

Another example, I never played Minecraft, but my older kid sometimes did. But only building. (There's more to the game, right?) She still sometimes builds with friends online.

there's more to the game in the sense that the original game is a survival game but i think most people get tired of that and just play in free build mode

The bits where you pay money / complete challenges to get new clothes / skins / handbags / moves are pretty f'ing dollhousey, IMO.

the point is anyone who plays any video game of any kind is a fucking dork

otm

i mean in most games you complete challenges (or nowadays pay money) to unlock skins, clothes, and stuff?

xxp

also lol NA otm

lol yeah, if anything I suspect my girls are If anything too cool for me. I'm the dork for sure.

I've got video game madness again I don't want to stop thinking about video games

I’ve got dollhouse madness

I ordered a second console so I can play again. And (theoretically) my kid and I will get to use local two-player on our own screens. Really looking forward to it.

My nephew was over this weekend and introduced me to Splatoon. Rules!

make sure you get the new revision that just came out with the much longer battery life, if you can

Oh I did, memorized the different model numbers to be sure

hmm astral chain getting really positive reviews

Have any reviewers called it "off the chain?" I need to know so I can either shame or congratulate them, I'm conflicted

OK, fwiw just got a tracking number that my Joy-con is on its way back, so that's a pretty fast turnaround.

every reviewer has called it that, by sheer coincidence

xp to Josh,
I imagine that there must be a good rpg (with more story than zelda) that your daughters would eat up

or adventure game. My little sister eventually got into games like Monkey Island, Paper Mario, and Chrono Trigger

switch should have a paper mario game, hopefully that's in the pipe

Blz

I think they're just not that interested, tbh. Sometimes these things skip generations, and they have plenty of other distractions. I just hope my younger one (not that young anymore) is still interested in Animal Crossing by the time it finally releases for the Switch.

Curiously (or not) they do seem to enjoy watching me play games. Of course, I (and obviously countless others) enjoy watching others play games online, so that's not unusual. Another random data point is that when I was playing Mario Kart with my nephew this weekend, he was really into watching the instant replays at the end, whereas I never gave a poop about that.

hmm astral chain getting really positive reviews

I got it on preorder lol, really looking foward to it

yeah i'm gonna pick it up next week if i finish judgment this weekend

I haven't played Super Mario Odyssey yet but the Dr. Mario app loads a close-up picture of the new Mario and his eyes are kinda creepy. They didn’t need the hyper-realistic lines in the iris. A blue gradient is good enough.

Transferring my user data to the new Switch: painless

Re-establishing my kid’s ability to play her favorite games on the old Switch now that mine is the “primary:” hard brexit

The lack of qualified negotiators is going to lead to food and medicine shortages at my house. Some industries are already looking for alternative locations

Really mistook which Switch to ditch in this sitch

yeah that stuff is very arcane

Completely corrupted her Minecraft save. Had to blow it all away to get it working again; if she had anything important on local that wasn’t in the Microsoft cloud, I may not survive tomorrow

I feel like I’ve been working on an old car for the past two hours

you may have hit the point where your best move is to buy your child’s love back by rebuying all the games.

Oh that happened too. Spending another hundo on things I thought we already owned was the easy part

untitled goose game out sept. 20

honk