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Maybe I'm more tired from work than I thought, because I totally had a freakout moment when I misread that as, "The Citizen Kane of public domain" aaaaaaaaa

Did somebody say, Edit - Oh my god, I think the pinnacle of the "Actually Ethics" tumblr was reached:

So the moon can crash down on the town while you're running around in a dungeon?

Speaking of the Steam Curator has there been any messaging from Valve regarding being able to dismiss / block particular Curators from coming up?

I do love Leigh's portion of that GG question when she said to not read her work if you don't like it. It's a problem people tend to have when it comes to not liking things. When the option to not digest the content exists, but they seem to not take it. As a Howard Stern fan, I have to say, "If you don't like it change the tuner." It's that easy. It'd be one thing if people were talking about promotion of real world action that is actually harmful. But in the world of opinions and entertainment? Don't like it, go somewhere else. It's that easy.

I forget if I've mentioned if this whole thing has gotten farcical already or not. Because it totally is. Wasn't YTMND the site where shit just repeats over and over and that's the joke somehow?

Why doesn't Link reset time to when Skull Boy was introduced, before getting the goddamn mask?

Just wait 'til the Gone Home: Director's Cut is finished.

I had no idea the game had that function in it.

The Last Express doesn't let you manipulate time, though (beyond saving and loading I guess?). The mechanic is expressed way better in that game. By allowing time to be manipulated in Majora's Mask, I feel like they're removing the point of the whole thing you just described. There's no permanence or fail-state to anything.

Oh right, Majora's Mask! A long time ago on this forum I already talked about it but now it feels like a legit time to double-down on my sentiment toward that game. So here's the deal. As a huge fan of the Legend of Zelda series, with only Metroid topping it out of every game series ever, MM is my least favorite of all the games. By quite a big margin too. It landed at a time where I was realizing that spin-off / side content doesn't please me in most media I consume (Star Wars and rock bands / musicians being the exceptions), so it automatically lost points for that. The tone definitely wasn't right with me; it isn't what I expect nor want of the series (nor do I think any other game in the series use that tone). But the biggest points are lost on the time mechanic. It made the game feel cumbersome and a chore to play. I understand that they give you all the tools to manipulate time so that you don't miss this or that content, but with no limitations or loss of anything aside from real-world time in having to do that dance with the in-game clock, what was the point of it? Mechanically I mean, as a design. I know that it would support the whole narrative about a moon face-planting into a town, but there's other ways to support that in games. I know that MM isn't meant to be the most linear of games, but maybe non-linearity is a bad thing in some cases. Like this one. Going back to the done, the dark-creepiness falls outside the bounds of what the series has generally had. Even in the "dark" tone of Ocarina of Time, it had an adventurous menacing-evil style to it. Like classic good vs. evil stuff. But it wasn't meant to put you off, it was a very recognizable style. Incidentally that's why I like Wind Waker the most out of all the games. The upbeat tones definitely match the adventurous side, while the darker settings come through in a pretty unique way that feels true to what the original or A Link to the Past wanted to get across. As an aside I never really cared about a timeline being made official. It was fun once in a while to just talk about it in passing BS conversation, or to get those hints once in a while in games that maybe there is a linearity. But what ended up happening was Nintendo pulling a George Lucas; hey man, we don't need the science behind the Force, it being a mystery is the fun of it. There's value in not having all the answers to everything in a series / setting! Edit - Everyone can feel free to point out I'm the lone guy that doesn't like Majora's Mask btw, I'm used to it and am kinda proud of it (because I have actual reasons why I don't like it, rather than just trying to be contrarian).

This is an old tweet at this point but a friend of mine just shoved it into my feed. I dunno who Steve Hogarty is nor what publication / site he wrote for but I'm torn on this being brilliant and over the line. https://twitter.com/misterbrilliant/status/483224360418041856

The New 3DS XL is the first time I've been burned by Nintendo's thing over the last ten years of having multiple new versions of a particular hardware platform come out. Just a month ago I bought a 3DS XL to replace my 3DS (and thus I could give my brother the 3DS). I mean, it'd be fine if it was just the standard "longer battery, bigger screen!" stuff, but if the actual hardware performance is better to the point that it will run games the current versions can't run, that really burns my ass. Why not just make the next gen of hardware altogether if you're going to allow for that shit? Or is this some goofy Wii / Wii U name crap and this actually is the next hardware gen? Can you imagine if later this year we hear about the New Wii U? Anyway. Noticed that Jake referred to GOG as "Gee oh gee." Was different.

... I'm just now starting to listen to this episode but what the hell is the "New Nintendo 3DS XL" and what does it have over the regular 3DS XL because I just bought one a month ago.

Oh please, it's not like Microsoft can't throw money at the academy. This is 100% a paid advertisement (which is really what all these award shows are about anyway).

I finally got on board with the 21st century and got a smartphone. I feel old and awkward trying to figure out the intricacies of this tech. I know nothing about it. All I know is my job sells a ton of accessories for it.

Of course the Disney stuff is about protecting themselves legally, but they go WAY WAY far with their stipulations.

So many unanswered questions. Was the cheese smelly because it's a smelly fresh-cheese or was it smelly because it was old / expired?

Nah that I'd openly admit to having. Not that the name has anything to do with it. Easily stressed people have awesome physical afflictions. I should write a book. And I'm gonna keep quiet about the specifics of what happened. I only spoke to one friend about it and she agreed a doctor's appointment is in order.

I turned 30 yesterday. I was dreading it, but when the day came everything felt the same and I went to bed thinking, "Whatever." I woke up to a legit health problem that comes with age (as early as 30) and am extremely bummed out and embarrassed for some reason.

Temple of Doom was the only Indiana Jones movie I had available to me when I was a kid. I knew about the other two movies, but we didn't have them on VHS. So it's the one I know most, scene to scene.

The first I saw of Crystal Skull - mind you I even managed to avoid trailers / commercials - was the dumbest part possibly in it. By chance I came downstairs when one of my roommates was watch it in the living room, and I looked at the screen just in time to see Harrison Ford jump into a fridge. I vowed to never bother investigating that film. But then I broke that vow a year ago when one of my brothers had it on. Within the first, I dunno, five or so minutes, we get a lame late-Lucas-career move of referencing stuff from prior films for the sake of making a reference. Again, I just immediately turned away. Crystal Skull is the worst. I can't believe they had to fake all moments of old Harrison Ford swinging a whip. Maybe when they discovered that was a necessity they should've canned the project.

Ghostbusters 2 did give us this though.

This conversation about film is the best. Screw video games. Edit - The note about how TV shows cut to commercials; I wonder how TV broadcasts of the Star Wars movies choose to break them up with commercials now vs. how they were broken up ten, twenty years ago.

You leave Etrian Odyssey and other dungeon crawling RPGs out of this!