I always figured the playbook was something like:

1. Cut staffing (and save $$$)
2. Shrinkage increases due to fewer staff
3. Construct a narrative around rising crime, of which locking up products is a part
4. Get more cops

Congratulations, you've successfully shifted costs of protecting your property on the public!

Get some plants. Having some green living things in the house feels nice. Even if you don't have a green thumb, something like a peace lily is dead simple to care for.

I remember my discrete math professor getting to Aleph Numbers and thinking "My God, it finally happened! THEY RAN OUT OF GREEK LETTERS!"

Return of the Obra Dinn is also good for this

BWUH BWOH

The remake. While I do think it pushed the art too far in the direction of "generic mario", there are so many other things better about the remake:

• updated music is fantastic
• lots of QoL improvements, like better item management and mechanics that make battles go faster
• Updated localization, mostly for the better (though I do miss Mallow telling Mario "who do you think you are, Bruce Lee!?")

If students WERE having sex at these protests, you'd hear a bunch of complaints about how they're not taking this seriously and it's all just a big party to them.

I've seen a small business where the owner was Chinese add eighty-eight cents to every price, I figured it was just an "eight is a lucky number, especially for money" thing. The fact that there are so many other 8's here makes me wonder if it's something like that.

I would honestly find it more

Yup, this is how I use it. Left trigger is Z, Right trigger doesn't exist in N64 so it becomes a context button to turn ABXY into the appropriate C buttons. Right stick is also C for games where the C buttons work like a camera. Using the context button takes a bit of learning, but I like that this approach leaves buttons in roughly the same place (i.e. not mapping any face buttons to shoulders or triggers)

underdeveloped

This would give me some place to post the "Virgin Hamilton vs. Chad Hadestown" meme that's been floating around half-formed in my brain for a while now.

I will always maintain that Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts was a good game, and would have been received much better if it just wasn't marketed as a Banjo-Kazooie game. Nuts & Bolts walked so Tears of the Kingdom could run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP2rm9zLAJQ