Aw man, I think they're being too harsh on Republic Commando. I remember loving that game back then and I've enjoyed playing it again in recent years. When I get a Switch (I know, still behind on that), I'll get this again.
Wait, are frog legs not a thing on the West Coast? When they're talking about weird foods, Jeff mentions that. Fried frog legs aren't necessarily the most common thing, but you can relatively easily find them in the Midwest and South.
For @janman: I get that kind of pain and numbness in two ways: first from playing games too much that require odd hand positions (like mouse+keyboard games with big stretches between buttons), and from sleeping on it wrong during the night. If you don't already, consider getting a wrist splint to use during the night; a lot of finger nerve issues spring from the carpal tunnel, and splinting it at night can help!
@vinny and @brad: Here's a small niche reason for the resurgence of interest in cassette tapes: a properly stored quality cassette tape will likely last much longer than a CD. CDs have wildly varying decay rates, with some early CDs starting to degrade already. Tape can be more robust, again provided that they are stored properly. And it provides the "neat" factor of having something in hand, while being smaller and easier to display/store than vinyl. The handful of cassettes that I have are definitely more for show or from special releases that I wanted to own, like a recent special release from The Mountain Goats that came in a deluxe cassette package.
Physical CDs definitely still have their place, as well. There is a noticeable difference in audio quality between a physical CD and all but uncompressed digital audio. Also, speaking as a working audio engineer, I still burn plenty of CDs for clients, with about the other half accepting .WAV files shared over a cloud service.
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