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I couldn’t tell you unfortunately, as I’ve never listened to WTYP. I’ll be happy to download a couple of episodes to check it out, though!

Lions Led by Donkeys! It’s a great podcast for history nerds!

You should give some of them a try. Nintendo is a shitty company sometimes, but some of their games speak for themselves - stuff like The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Mario Kart 8 DX, Ring Fit Adventure, Super Metroid, Donkey Kong Country, Earthbound, etc. are all legendary for a reason.

I’ve gotten thousands of hours of play out of every Nintendo system I’ve ever owned (including the WiiU), because the games are just that damn good.

That said I love the Steam Deck as well, but it scratches a different itch. It has a much bigger library of awesome games, and it’s less restrictive than Nintendo’s walled garden approach to gaming.

TLDR; Steam Deck is great, but Switch 2 will be great as well. Gamers win with both choices.

Geysers.

I stuck a finger in a geyser-adjacent hot spring to see how hot the water was, and my finger burned for three days. Don’t fuck around with geysers, y’all.

Discussions about a certain LUIGI

Additionally, it’s also nice to not see much of this trend of self-censoring words that make advertisers uncomfortable - it’s one of my least favorite things about modern social media. Words have power, and they should be engaged with, even if they’re uncomfortable.

Sticking asterisks in the middle of words for reasons is galling and frankly, dumb.

Pokémon GO hasn’t been good for a long time, sadly. The game was peak during the pandemic before Niantic absolutely turned it into a dumpster fire.

Orna does a much better job of scratching that GPS RPG itch for me, and it’s a better game in every way.