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  1. There are a ton of hockey rinks in Tennessee! Disagree about the transplant part though. Nashville’s fanbase flourished before we got filled with transplants. I think Dallas’ was pretty organic too.
  2. Do the Canes bleed over into SC? Hockey in general is huge in Nashville and the surrounding areas in middle Tennessee. There are some Preds fans in Atlanta but I imagine that is leftover from the Thrashers leaving rather than wholly organic. Some of those fans just continued to follow Winnipeg though.
  3. I don’t have anything to contribute that hasn’t already been said, but down here in Nashville the organ dude at Preds games will play themes from hockey video games. And various other Nintendo titles too.
  4. How do I deal? I don’t. I just lost my mom to cancer. It’s a devastating feeling. I worry about my dad, who is around the same age as yours, every single day. I call nearly every day and visit as much as I can. That’s really all we can do. Time is the most important resource in our lives and you’ll never feel like you had enough of it. I know I didn’t when my mom passed. I haven’t figured out how to deal with the mental anguish but maybe someone else here can guide you better. My advice is to just spend time, spend time, spend time.
  5. I have others that I’ll post later but as far as readily available pictures I’ve got some of my copy of Ultima Underworld. This is probably my favorite in my PC collection atm.
  6. Total necromancy here, sorry, but I’m not too proud to admit when I’m wrong. I love the Steam Deck. It’s my main gaming device now. I still use my PS5/Switch/regular PC occasionally but the SD has become my go-to.
  7. Caveat I don’t believe in anything. Religion, astrology, any of it. Sorry if that seems cynical but it’s just how I believe at the moment. My mom just passed. It was a horrifying experience. Seriously, if you have to outlive someone you love then pray it isn’t cancer because watching that disease take her body in her final moments was more horrifying than anything any piece of media could have prepared me for. That being said, if there is any justice in this universe then I hope she is, in some capacity, with her father now. He died 5 years ago of the exact same type of cancer. They were so alike. Despite me not believing in anything I do find comfort in imagining something like that. My grandfather/her dad was a wildlife photographer in Germany and a very talented one at that. Birds were his favorite. Whenever a blue jay or red cardinal would visit my mom would say it was her dad. That’s another fun/comforting thought. So whenever I see a bird hanging around I try to think of them.
  8. Missing the NES version has been a big regret for me for awhile. I’m so glad you opened up preorders for more and for the pocket version.
  9. Another vote for Autobahn Polizei. I used to frequent GameStops back when I first started collecting and had no real established goals yet and this is one that I only ever saw one copy of in that long stretch of time. Anecdotal, yes, but isn’t that how all the best video game rarity lists are made
  10. The Wii was where Sin & Punishment died and now I’m sad all over again
  11. That’s depressingly true. People know the term Metroidvania better than they actually know Metroid or Castlevania these days.
  12. I hear you, and I enjoy my Switch (less so than my Steam Deck these days but I digress) but I think there’s something to be said about it being the cheapest, the portable system, the Pokémon machine, and the one that parents get for their kids because they know the brand. I don’t think those things count for even half the numbers here but they are factors. Idk I just run into way too many Gen Z people who say they “don’t do that Nintendo shit.” I think PC/Xbox/PS share the crown now. My buddy teaches high school music and his class didn’t know what Metroid was when he was gushing to them about the Prime remaster (which breaks my heart). In the end it doesn’t matter, I still love Nintendo. That’s just the overall feeling I get from interacting with others.
  13. I liked the Wii. I still do. It was a huge financial success for Nintendo. But it is no doubt the point where Nintendo took a massive hit in the collective cultural mindshare. I was in middle school and high school when the Wii was a thing. I was a Nintendo kid. Prior to the Wii, so were a lot of other people. But as someone else mentioned here, if you’re a teenager/young adult, which would you rather play? Outside of Nintendo’s sweet first party stuff, you had what, Boom Blox? Then on the other side there was Red Dead, Dark Souls, Halo, God of War, Call of Duty (proper), Skyrim, BioShock, Mass Effect, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, etc.? These games were gaming at the time. Not Nintendo. As a high schooler I thought the Wii was fun but it was a hard sell against playing the aforementioned games with all of my friends. I spent a large portion of that era defending Nintendo against people who said they were “garbage now.” (And then the Wii U came out and I’ve been a bit more sour on Nintendo since, but that’s a discussion for a different thread). Whether us old people want to admit it or not, Nintendo isn’t as popular with the younger generations as they were when we were kids. No I’m not saying they’re shit now and that everyone hates them, but they’re not king in peoples’ minds like they used to be. And I really believe we have this era to blame for that downfall.
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