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I don't know where to put this, but I'd just like to say how much I appreciate the fact that Chrome recently added a little speaker icon to tabs that are playing audio. Now they just need to add the option to mute tabs and we're golden.

Which episode had Nick start yelling about "ten vitality sensors?"

HE TAPED HIS SHOES TO HIS FUCKING FEET AND THEN PUT LEG WARMERS OVER THEM

The new Sonic trailer is the perfect storm of mediocrity. Tall Sonic is freakish looking. I like how Tails has multiple belts to hold absolutely nothing, and how everyone is covered in athletic tape like an anime character. As always:

The Quicklook went up today, and hooooly shit.

I haven't seen the anime based on it, but I've been reading Wandering Son and it's exactly this.

They told people that they should join the forums on the last cast. I figured that was it.

SecretAsianMan gave me his old Razer Nostromo (thank yooouuuu) and I just cleaned my desk, so I thought I'd post some pics. Too many cooooords. Sewaddle watches on. Not pictured: Bamboo Connect drawing tablet, Xbox 360 controller. While I'm at it, have some GUI shots (spoilered for bigness).

So I guess Sega's allegedly doing a thing?

The Buzz Lightyear discussion was the most I've laughed in a long, long time. Also, I am so happy to hear from someone else who dislikes Yoshi's Island, and for the same reasons I do. Majora's Mask sounds fascinating to me thematically but I've just never enjoyed actually playing it, while I just don't really like anything about Yoshi's Island.

The Pokémon apps hit NA earlier today! Hooray!

I'd recommend it. Maaaaaan, volume 6 of Wandering Son is really strong compared to the last one. It works really well almost as a standalone thing, since the chapters it collects are mostly multi-chapter stories (there's three chapters of preparation for the school culture festival and two of the festival itself). Solid read.

What sucks about Yotsuba is that the ADV translations for the first five volumes were perfect, and then the series got handed off to Yen Press and got retranslated by someone who sucked all the charm out of it. I still have my ADV editions. I've been meaning to read Blacksad forever. I even checked it out at the library a while back, but never got a chance to even open it. It does sort of bother me how all the male characters are these great animal caricatures and all the female ones (that I've seen) are basically sexy women with car ears.

Archie is a super long-running series meant for older kids and younger teens. It's mostly a goofy PG-rated high school comedy, but the franchise has covered a ton of different types of stories over the years. I had a ton of old Archie digests as a kid, so I have a soft spot for it. I've been bringing manga up, 'cause that's mostly what I read now, but I dunno if we're in the minority or what. I've been considering making a separate manga thread, but I think it would still just be me talking about Osamu Tezuka English releases, old horror manga from the sixties, and Wandering Son. ...Speaking of which, I got my Wandering Son volume 6 today and am going to go read it right noooooow.

I misread this sentence as "nothing to do with the Malaria gun jamming." A game with a gun that gave your enemies malaria would be the best/most terrifying thing.

You take an ordinary bedsheet, fold it around like thi- (I am positive I have made this exact same joke response on here before) (the game is super cute and great)

How come nobody in games ever does the thing where a protagonist finds relevant footage on a security camera? That seems more reasonable than audio diaries?

Far Cry 2

Pokémon Bank is finally out in Europe and Australia today, and still not out in North America. Geez, Nintendo, get your act together. Why is North America the new Europe? I miss the days when Europe was Europe.

Hooooly shit, the fake card game from Adventure Time -whose entire deal was that it was needlessly complex and impossible to learn- is actually becoming a real game.

Guys; I have an idea for the next Idle Thumbs group moneyraising project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=50_AntgK8ZA We can call it Fuknik.

Now that Jake has a Wii U, the Thumbs could totally do a Pikmin 3 multiplayer stream.

It turns out I have a WHOLE BUNCH of reward points on my credit card so I exchanged them online and should get a bunch of gift cards to use at the mall soon. On the one hand, I wish they were for something more useful like groceries. On the other hand, it's not often that I have money that I can only spend on dumb stuff I want rather than important stuff I need. Faboo!

99 stock, starting damage set to 999%, knockback set to 2.0, bumpers only.

Bravest Warriors wooooo!