What a great article!!

So, I’m a huge Game Boy fan. I’d heard about how good Puyo Puyo is, so I got a Japanese copy of Puyo Puyo Tsu. From what I can tell it’s a great port. But I struggled so much getting into it! And then I read your comment…

Puyo Puyo Tsu is hard. It’s really damn hard. I’ve witnessed many new players struggle with even basic 3- and 4-chains, nevermind making the real big chains the game mode demands of you. And unlike Tetris where casual players do not need to know fancy T-Spin setups just to get started and play, you really can’t get far at all in Puyo Puyo Tsu without at least some understanding of chaining fundamentals.

…and I feel justified. 😅 What do you recommend is a good way for a new player to get into the game? Something to read, a video, or something else?

😄 The phone call was just to get some simple bonus tips, nothing really necessary.

What killed me was, to swap items, you hold Select and use the arrow keys. It’s soooo unintuitive!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

Today I learned! :)

I honestly don’t really use it, but I am excited about it in the future. :)

I installed it because of OSNews, my favorite tech news website. But the Gemini page seems to be down?

https://www.osnews.com/story/136770/osnews-launches-gemini-capsule/

Yes! I use the Buran app (open source on Android) to browse it. :)

I don’t have an answer to your exact question but I want to emphasize…

NOTHING in the history of humankind has ever existed like computer data. A 100% identical copy of videos, pictures, and music can be made almost instantly at what is essentially zero cost to the original holder of the data. Any comparison to “stealing” or to a physical object (a car lol) just falls flat because the situation is just so different.

Practically speaking, the world we live in, with computers everywhere, cheap storage, and easy fast internet access for so much of the world, has only been around for about two decades, maybe three. NOTHING like this has ever existed before, and businesses, culture, and laws have been very slow to catch up.

I’m not saying pirating is right or wrong, just that the whole idea is still so new that society hasn’t caught up to it yet.