I think saying that GB 'boycotted' the wizard game is a bit of a misrepresentation by the folks making that observation? My impression has been that simply none of them really had any desire to engage with it, so they didn't. Which is fair. Plenty of games don't really get coverage on this website, including some that I would consider my favorites. This has never been a "the whole world of video games" kinda joint, so I don't think they have any obligation to cover one particular game more than any other.
Earthworm Jim 3D really isn't all that bad. Like, it's not good, it's just a not great also-ran 3D Platformer of that era. I don't think we're gonna get this amount of chaotic insanity out of that one. Also fuck the bigot who designed the character of course.
Bubsy 3D is legendarily bad though, that could be fun. It's one of those games nobody has played more than the first 5 minutes of. Could be fun to make Grubb try to actually get places in that game.
The game length thing is kind of interesting. For some reason we automatically think that JRPGs (or any RPG for that matter) are these huge long games. The thing is, Chrono Trigger ain't that long. It's like a 25 hour game. Like 85% of modern big budget games are much longer. You can basically finish Chrono Trigger thrice over in the time it takes you to finish any Ubisoft game.
There are also super long RPGs of course, but at this point most games are long as heck. The Last of Us Part II is longer than Chrono Trigger.
Linguist chiming in: Jan is kinda right. Cupboard is a compound word like clipboard, it's just been lexicalised over years (or rather centuries) of use and pronunciation has shifted. Reasons why it isn't the same with clipboard are likely that it's a younger, less frequently used word, and also that the parts of the compound are semantically a bit stronger than in cupboard. It's still the same structure.
I'm also with Drew on Tom Waits songs often being much better in live versions. There is a pro recording of a 2008 show in Atlanta, which hasn't been released officially, but is on Youtube in its entirety. It's like 26 songs, and every single arrangement is incredible to the point where I often cannot really do the studio versions anymore.
They take a song like Hoist that Rag from Real Gone, which is sparse and dissonant even for Tom Waits standards, and just make it sing in a way I didn't think was possible.
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