Oh, I have so much to say... sorry if this post gets long... first of all sorry to hear you lost the first recording. Those kinds of things are always frustrating.
Wasn't there a recent EoFCast episode recording where things also went bad?
Regarding the "lego games aren't games" thing: this is clearly a case of just needing more clarity. At first it sounded like an oxymoron. Then with the example "lego SW is not a real SW game", I can understand (and respect, but not quite agree on) your point; it's a non-canon re-imagining of the franchise (but hardly the first among all the SW games). But then "lego games are cash-grab"... now this is a completely different point, but once again I can see what you mean. But these days is there any AAA game that isn't a cash-grab? Between micro-transactions, bad paid DLC (+pay-to-win) and over-spending on ads and visuals for very unoriginal/generic gameplay, it's hard not to see all of them as lazy cash-grabs. In contrast the original lego SW games still holds up (after ALMOST 20 YEARS!... oh god I feel old
) and any "advertisement" for lego sets is too old to be relevant (even if you're a fan of Chinese repros...).
And don't get me started on lego racers - sure it was advertising the themes at the time, but the cars were never sold as products (which would have been the most obvious choice). And you could build your own driver and car as you liked. (released in 1999... did I say I feel old yet?
). Oh and to twist things up a bit: the lego batman movie. Many critics have praised it from the view as an actual batman movie, in fact many consider it to also be the best batman parody so far (again, ignoring the lego theme itself).
And now for something completely different: Arceus definitely looks interesting. I've only really played the first two gen. games, but kept telling myself to look back into the series. The "Let's go" games were interesting but I never bothered (too much of the "pokemon go" concept). This looks like a healthy mix of the freedom+direct capture from pokemon go and the underlying combat+rpg idea from the original games (and monster hunter). Also is the protagonist not 10 years old, like in the original game? I wonder why they picked 15 years this time? Maybe it reflects an older target demography? It would have been cool to be able to set your own age to make it more personal, at least for older players (but I guess then we end up with bethesda-style face modelling and all that silly stuff).
Chary, have you tried moving your install to NAND instead of the SD card? I think I had a few areas of stutter in metroid dread because of my SD card, because in some large areas parts would load while moving around. Something similar can be the case here if it's loading in models during gameplay... The NAND is Much faster than SD (and somewhat faster than the Gamecard). I also hear people have been able to get pretty stable 60fps in handheld mode using a 60fps cheat and sys-clk (and maybe reversenx? I'm not sure). But if the SD is the bottleneck then that's hard to get around.
Oh, regarding pokemon r34 (and any other kind of fanart): I don't understand why people would find the humans interesting? I mean anyone to their own, but the originality is in the monsters, not the generic(-ish) humans. And if that is sexually or just visually interesting doesn't really matter (
). But then I guess the humans are now given more room to be characters in the modern games? Oh, actually maybe also in the anime, I guess.
