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The Sonic Adventure site is my favorite, especially the blog.

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[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'll contribute this shrine to Chrono Cross, but the whole site itself is a nice look back at a previous era of design.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 3 points 4 days ago

Oh wow, that whole site is a gem, I hadn't heard of it before. I'm planning on playing a couple of games that have shrines on there, too. I'll definitely use those as a reference before checking some fandom.com site.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're in the blog post that the original post is linking to. (If you're using Lemmy, you can click the title again to go to it.)

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I didn't even notice your post was a link, I'm feeling extra dumb right now (i mostly access via web)

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 3 points 4 days ago

Haha, that's not dumb at all. :) Really, Lemmy's UI does not make it obvious that a post is a link. Sometimes the title is just the title, and sometimes it's a link to the thing that was actually being posted. Others, like Piefed, make it more obvious.

[–] jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Kind of amazing that the KOF videos are still there and work.

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I love that. I figure this is because a site like that one is "a bunch of files in a folder on a server somewhere, including the videos," whereas nowadays the videos would be on a separate CDN or media host, which is why those tend to break separately.