Playdate: A Boy and His Blob - Trouble on Blobolonia (10/17/2018)

@the_nubster said:

The idea that Google Maps/any other GPS navigation tool - which guides you places, hands-free, without having to stop, usually with voice queues so you don't even need to look, including unfamiliar places you may suddenly need to get to with no preparation, and can sometimes even give you on-the-fly data to help you to not break speed limits on unfamiliar roads, and is kept up to date automatically or near enough automatically - isn't solving any real problems and only invents new ones is questionable. You could argue there's a sort of cultural laziness that such technologies enable, but not cause - it's on us to bother to learn things. But when the trade off in that particular case is that an automated map is doing all that for you 99% of the time vs the 1% when you can't get a signal and don't have a paper map (or the right one with enough detail for the area), and maybe you're young enough to have not even seen a paper map, it might never occur to you to learn which is more an understandable failure of imagination than fault of that tech. I get what you're saying in principle, and I'm sure there are technologies that only invent new problems; I just don't think this is a good example of one.

Which apparently I care enough about to ramble on about it after waking up 3 hours too early for no good reason... bleurgh.

I hope they finish this game, and make Dan start the 2nd part.

This game frustrated the hell out of me when I rented it as a kid. I got to the blob land and past the mushrooms and gave up after falling about 100 times down in the caves.

WHEELS UP BLOBOLONIA

School shootings now are bad but people forget how awful the '90s were. Domestic terrorism was rampant with bombings all over the place. My school, like many others, received constant bomb threats and were paranoid of the potential. The CNN '90s series covers this well in an episode. Once you understand this, the media of the '90s makes a lot more sense: There was this sense of not being able to trust your neighbor or feel safe outside.

The remake for Wii was fantastic! If you are reading this you should go out of your way to play it.

A Boy and His Blob

Update: apparently it came out on PS4, Steam, and Xbox. It's on sale for the holidays for a couple of dollars. You have no excuse go play it!

I still very much enjoy Giant Bomb, and I still very much enjoy Vinny, Abby, and Dan's current endeavours ... but boy, there was just something special about Giant Beast.