Quick Questions XV: Episode Prompto

I watched a trailer for the upcoming Lost in Abyss game yesterday, and it reminded me of a feature-length anime I watched on Netflix or Funimation’s YouTube channel sometime between 2013 and 2017. It had a similar setting to Made in Abyss: a big gaping pit with a community living around its rim. But I think the pit was lined with old rusted girders.

I think the protagonist finds a sleeping magical girl in the bottom of the pit along with some sort of high tech weapon, which he uses to fight off an invading army that’s after the girl… or something.

Anyone know what this movie is called?

EDIT: Looks like it was Origin: Spirits of the Past, and I misremembered the scale and form of the ruins as a big gaping pit.

Do I keep the boxes for my 8bitdo and chinese handhelds or throw them away like a normal person.

Anyone here recommend this? You Died deluxe hardcover (black cloth edition) – Tune & Fairweather I quite like the idea of a written breakdown of the souls era and their internal function but also published game crit is a complete crapshoot especially for what they’re charging.

Are they nice boxes?

Toss ‘em. Boxes are fungible. You can always get more boxes

Im kind of a box keeping freak but mostly on stuff I plan to sell or that might need padding for a move. I however have like attics and stuff to fill with kindeling. I assume japanese apartments are different

I watched a Sonic The Hedgehog 1 long play on YouTube one time with someone narrating with a real chill voice. I’m almost positive it was linked here and may have been a video made by an SBer. Does anyone know what this is or have a link?

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I was playing this today. I ran out of continues in scrap brain zone 3 and lost all hope

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Years and years ago on the selectbutton IRC I announced I was gonna sit down and play through Sonic 1 and get the emeralds. I got a lot of “good lucks”.

I did not get all the emeralds. I barely finished the game. I think about those good lucks every time I play Sonic 1.

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playing sonic is a perishable skill I’ve learned

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Sometimes I wish Mania was wholly new but it works well as a greatest hits that’s slightly easier when I don’t want to get good at the Genesis games

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i rinsed sonic 1-3 so much as a lad i could probably finish them blindfolded and i still wouldn’t bother with the special stages in the first one

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the idea of there being no payoff from collecting all 6(?) emeralds feels like a joke in hindsight, though I actually like the sonic 1 special stages (this is one of so many respects in which all 3 original titles are severely uneven and mania is fantastic as the only credible attempt at putting together a single solid release in maybe the whole series)

fair to maybe imagine that it’s bugged and they just left one out

If you burn a 4K UHD remux onto a blank 4K UHD disc will a standard PS5 be able to play it?

yes, but mastering is kind of tricky, purely because there aren’t a lot of tools that scaffold the whole process like there were for DVDs. you shouldn’t need to reencode unless some strange decisions were made about the audio or aspect ratio, but you’ll need to create the filesystem image in a particular way

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sonic mania is way harder than the mega drive sonics imo

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honestly found mania kinda meh at launch, been meaning to have another look for a while

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I played through sonic 1 last night and it whipped my ass, that chill EZ mode video was a tonic, thank you!

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Sonic’s such a different game without the spindash. Instead of “gotta go fast” it’s “gotta patiently backtrack and build momentum first”. Also “gotta go on the high path because sometimes the lower speedway sends you direct into a bottomless pit”. I love Sonic 1

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