Nope; pretty sure that the Nintendo Selects are just discounted physical releases with a fancy border on their front-facing box art, historically done for some of the best-selling titles on the given console (thus far seen on the Wii, 3DS and Wii U).

Whoa, don't think achievements are all good! Video games left me with a chronic addition to achievement hunting that I only escaped from last year. To this day, I still have to fight the urge to take random objects and place them in obtuse places for the off chance that I'll get an achievement for sticking a traffic cone on a road sign or something.

Much the same as last week for me. Beat Mario Wonder's final boss; it, and especially the levels preceding it, were absolutely fantastic in my eyes. Also tackled said final boss with the Jet Run badge equipped, because that's totally a good idea. Just need to sweep the game for collectables and levels I missed now, including every regular desert level in the desert world. Bit odd that they introduce the sand mechanic in the world's Poplin House, only for all the levels using it to be optional.

Started the Triple Deluxe replay I was thinking about as well; thus far, I've bested the first world, affirmed I'm still terrible at the Dedede's Drum Dash subgame, and had a very stupid (and very impossible) idea about trying to beat the game without the B button. Whilst you can damage all enemies with the Beetle ability's hover (heck, I defeated the first boss doing just that), it's a rather difficult strategy to execute, and Hypernova exists, which would dramatically inflate the B button presses every time it appears. Might be more feasible in Planet Robobot, though.

I got my hands on Super Mario Bros. Wonder on Wednesday, going in pretty much blind, and have been having great fun with it so far. I especially like the options you're given to play with, whether that's the easy mode characters of Nabbit and the Yoshis, the badges to augment your movement options with, the expert badges to actively hinder yourself with, or putting the talking flowers in German for no good reason. Only real criticism I've got of the game thus far is that worlds ending without bosses feels anticlimactic - I get that people didn't like how samey and/or easy most of the boss fights were in the New Super Mario Bros. games, but in my eyes, it's definitely a more climactic closure to a world to crush Koopaling #5, even if the boss fight is very easy, than to just be given the Big Wonder Seed in a house.

Once I'm done with Wonder, or possibly before, I might replay Kirby Triple Deluxe. I've been doing a few 3DS replays lately with New Super Mario Bros. 2 (beat all the levels and got all the star coins) and A Link Between Worlds (reached Lorule and felled the Theives' Hideout; haven't touched it since), and the mood has struck me to play Triple Deluxe again recently. Whether I actually act on this thought, we will see.

Ancestors, since they'd be far more likely rationalise my bizarre present-day manner as being possessed by demons or something to that effect rather than assuming I'm from half a millennium in the future, I can't say I have any specific guesses as to what the society of 2523 might look like, but I suspect that they'd be far more likely to jump to the somewhat improbable sci-fi explanation of time travel (or perhaps some other technological explanation like mind malware if brain implants become a thing) than assuming supernatural explanations of demons or witchcraft.

Despite running the same code and (generally) being able to see each others' posts, different Lemmy instances (or as you called them, versions) are not run by the same people, so often have different rules as to what is and isn't allowed on their instance. Some instances are very lenient, allowing anything that isn't outright illegal in their country of hosting to be posted, while another instance might have far stricter rules, disallowing things like nudity or vocalising certain political views, banning users on their instance who post such content and defederating other instances (effectively pretending the defederated instance doesn't exist and refusing to view any content posted from there) where such content is prolific.

Okay, but what if some billionaire bought all the issues? Would that leave us with no issues because the billionaire paid to have them offloaded onto them, or low-quality issues because the billionaire now hogs all the premium paid issues?

A certain NES title that spawned a long-running franchise and half the genre's name.

Curiously not the first time a classic novel in public domain received a sequel in the form of a Metroidvania videogame.

It's an ad blocker blocker they've been implementing as of late. I don't think you'll be banned if you continue disregarding it, but they do eventually entirely block the video player unless you disable the ad blocker. However, in my experience, uBlock can block that message to resume normal watching. (Double Edit: This method did stop working on the 15/10/23, but started working again a day later. I guess it's a question of if the filters have been updated to counter YouTube's updates, though I did notice that viewing in a private tab worked when regular browsing didn't.) Go to the extension's settings/dashboard (on Firefox, do this by clicking on its icon in the top right, then the settings icon in the subsequent pop-up), then the Filter Lists, click "Purge all caches", then "Update now". Open an entirely new YouTube tab (or hard reload your current one by pressing Control + Shift + R), and the message should stop appearing, at least for the time being.

Oh, no no no, this is actually just a plane shedding its skin, like a snake. In actuality, humans just fly around in the shed skin; you wouldn't believe the industrial plane farms we have to encourage the shedding of skin we can use.

It's true. Swing into the album, open up an image, press A to bring up the Posting and Editing options, and "Send to Smart Device" should be the second option. This brings up a menu with a QR code that, if scanned, will connect your phone to the Switch via a Wi-Fi connection with no internet. Scanning the next QR code that comes up will bring you to a locally-hosted website with the image(s) you wanted to transfer, from which you can download the images onto your phone.

Alternatively, there's a seperate option to transfer your images directly to a computer via a USB connection buried in the system settings. Get a USB cable that can connect your PC and Switch - one stolen from a USB-C phone charger should work - head into the Switch's system settings, scroll down to Data Management, scroll down in that submenu to Manage Screenshots and Videos, and Copy to PC via USB Connection should be at the bottom of that subsequent submenu. Doing so should bring up your Switch album on your PC in a read-only form, sorted by game, from which you can copy the album's contents onto the PC.