HARDWARE REVIEW: Nintendo Switch Lite (Hyrule Edition)
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HARDWARE REVIEW: Nintendo Switch Lite (Hyrule Edition)

Nintendo has a rich, reliable and long history of selling off a bunch of excess plastic sitting around by way of “special edition” consoles. You’d see this much more frequently with the portables (endless iterations of the DS and 3DS in particular) and every so often with the home systems. Typically these essentially just repaints would hit store shelves during sales slumps or toward the end of a product’s life cycle. So it’s no surprise that as we near the Nintendo Switch’s 8th (!) birthday and have a successor looming on the horizon, it’s happened again. Only not with some fancy new System Dock or colorful Joy Cons, this time it’s a “Hyrule Edition” of the portable only Lite variant. Never could I have predicted the day where I’d be singing the praises of an in name only “Switch,” but here we are.

I love it.

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HALLOWEEN 2024 PHOTO BLOG: There’s a Third Time For Everything!
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HALLOWEEN 2024 PHOTO BLOG: There’s a Third Time For Everything!

If it wasn’t already fairly obvious, Halloween is a big deal here at the Dorkside. But even as someone who sure gets excited for this particular holiday, this year was perhaps the most excited I’ve ever been. Our daughter Alice turned 2 back in September, which means that she was 2 months old for her first Halloween and just over a year old for her second. This October 31st would be the first time where she could actively participate in the festivities, take in all of the costumes, walk up to doors for trick or treating, y’know really experience the whole thing. Our evening turned out to be a truly memorable one, transporting my wife and I back to as close to our own childhoods as we could possibly get.

Let’s take a look!

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