Ravenprose said:

I woke up this morning, took care of my dog, made an iced coffee, and began playing SMB2. WTH? I haven't played games in the early morning (5:30am) in years. I usually read the news in a fog until I wake up, even on my days off. I'm playing games like I did in the 90s. A proper return to form.  

Well look at you, you young whipper snapper.

gamingeek said:

I was going to get one. How's the d pad?

Excellent. No complaints.

gamingeek said:

What colour did you get?

Black

Dvader said:

aspro said:

Well, my new doctor, a nice vietnamese man, prescribed me two months worth of an epilepsy drug that the pharmacist put me thorugh 20 questions and lots of side eye before he gave it to me.

It's a drug they give people with epilepsy to stop convulsions with high pshychological and physical addiction risk. It's explicitly not reccomened for my condition in two research papers I've read and Pfizer was sued for hundreds of millions of dollars for illegally marketing it!.

What could possibly go wrong? :

Pretty sure half a bottle of tequila would have been a better sleep aid.

Paper 1:

"There is moderate- to high-quality evidence that anticonvulsants are ineffective for treatment of low back pain or lumbar radicular pain. There is high-quality evidence that gabapentinoids have a higher risk for adverse events."

Paper 2: (CLBP = Chronic lower back pain)



"Existing evidence on the use of gabapentinoids in CLBP is limited and demonstrates significant risk of adverse effects without any demonstrated benefit. Given the lack of efficacy, risks, and costs associated, the use of gabapentinoids for CLBP merits caution. "

Not sure what an epilepsy drug will do for back pain. Which drug?

surgery not an option?

That why we call him Dr. Vader. The street drugs I were prescribed did nothing.

That's why I have not been around much. No drugs help. Went to a physio therapist and he gave me some exercises to do, which have been extremely effective, including accupressure. Long story. Any way. not sure if this is just pain releif (the accupressure takes it away) or actual healing, but I will stick with it.  For now I have a ten month supply of "Gabbies" as they are known on the street, so should be a lucrative side hussle

Playing Spiritfarer, and it is working out. Like it still motivates me to play.

aspro said:

That why we call him Dr. Vader. The street drugs I were prescribed did nothing.

That's why I have not been around much. No drugs help. Went to a physio therapist and he gave me some exercises to do, which have been extremely effective, including accupressure. Long story. Any way. not sure if this is just pain releif (the accupressure takes it away) or actual healing, but I will stick with it.  For now I have a ten month supply of "Gabbies" as they are known on the street, so should be a lucrative side hussle

Playing Spiritfarer, and it is working out. Like it still motivates me to play.

Is it too late for you to sue Pfizer instead? Sounds even more lucrative.

It's easy to get what you need to take with gabbies from other nice Vietnamese people a couple of blocks away from my house to improve its pain relief (and other) qualities. His mistake was not prescribing you some of them, as well!

Ravenprose said:

"⁠New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 18.06M"

That's kind of surprising. I wonder how many copies is sold on the Wii U?

You guys played Citizen Sleeper?

The sequel is getting great reviews and the first is reccomened too. It looks like a board game choose your own adventure thing? But it looks largely text based which has put me off.

Anyone tried it?

SupremeAC said:

WiiU sold 13 million units.

I do wonder how they'll pace the release schedual for Switch2 though.  The argument for creating one hybrid system was so that all their development teams could focus on one system, thus providing sufficient new releases all through its lifespan.  That certainly worked, with a number of first party releases left for this year still.  But that roster of games was bolstered by Nintendo rereleasing nearly their full WiiU catalogue to an audience who never played those games.  They won't have that luxury this time around, and development will take longer and be more costly due to the higher fidelity.