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I really like the full art cards just because they're almost always an interesting hand-drawn image rather than weird CG that inevitably ends up looking clunky and dated. So I hate to keep boring everyone with Pokémon like this, but today was my free booster day in the online version and... well, if any of you guys play CCGs you may want to consider rubbing your boosters on my head for luck or something. (I've been dying for a physical version of this exact card for a while now for my Genesect deck, so I'm actually a little miffed I got it digitally)

what if OSX is actually the Mega Man X style spinoff and the next one is called OS 10

Selling it as a print, too!

REGIGIGAAAAAAAS

You take an ordinary bedsheet, fold it around like thi- I actually barely understand how to sew; drawstring bags are just relatively simple to do.

dear strong bad, how do you type with boxing gloves on

Building Stories is like the logical endgame of Chris Ware's love of fucking weird format shit. This is it. That's not a series or special edition extras or whatever. The contents of that entire table are the actual comic as it is meant to be read.

Making your own bespoke drawstring bags for tabletop gaming stuff is super-rewarding, by the way. It is such a nice feeling. =u= I grabbed a booster while I was out shopping with a friend tonight and did almost as well. My rare this time was another EX, and my digital booster's rare was a full art Mew EX. Black Kyurem EX actually sort of sucks, but whatever.

I did a bunch of shopping for art supplies with a friend today. I even went out and got some proper fabric to make a drawstring bag for my Pokémon TCG stuff. I went with purple and gold dragonflies 'cause I'm rockin' a bug deck with purple and gold Genesect card sleeves. The inside is also lined with a different satiny fabric so that everything slides out smoothly. I didn't do a perfect job (the worst part being the drawstring and the surrounding opening, which I feel I messed up bad), but I'm still happy I was able to make something like this myself.

Tiny Cartridge reviewed it too. Apparently it's one of those deals where alot of the gameplay is nothing to write home about, but the setpieces and overall experience are remarkable.

If she liked Bone, my first recommendation would be the fairly recent hardcover edition of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki, which collects the whole series into a two-book set. I've only ever read the first two volumes (of seven) back when it was available as a set of paperbacks, but it's some really fantastic work. The story is significantly more fleshed-out than the movie adaptation, and every single panel looks like some amazing early 20th century European book illustration. You mentioned complete collections, so you might also be interested in the boxed set of Herge's Tintin from a few years back or the new printing of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman in two omnibus volumes. Although I personally wasn't really a big fan of it, I know a lot of people who really loved Solanin by Inio Asanin. It's a very bittersweet story about a college graduate not being able to fit into post-student life. If you've ever read anything by Hope Larson or the non-Scott Pilgrim work of Bryan Lee O'Malley, it's very much in that same sort of vein. Fantagraphics also started publishing the work of Moto Hagio in English for the first time recently, which is all very influential early women's manga. Currently available are short story collection A Drunken Dream & Other Stories and a tragedy centered around a dead gay boy named Heart of Thomas. Although I'm really tempted to recommend something by Osamu Tezuka because I'm a huge Tezuka nut, I'm having trouble thinking of a good introductory self-contained book.

Probably the Citizen Kane of Games.

True story: I waited in line at a Wal-Mart in the cold for 40 minutes and got the second-last Wii. It had a broken disc drive right out of the box and had to be sent away for repairs.

I finished it! I'm pretty satisfied. A lot of the frustrations of the series really got ironed out in this installment. Now to wait until Thursday for the first DLC case!

It's kind of weird/hilarious/terrifying how additional content for games progressed this gen. First we had horse armour and virtual rims as "microtransactions," which were belittled relentlessly. Then for some reason we started calling it "DLC" and it became a thing that people actually wanted. The race for graphical fidelity took a sharp left turn this gen, which I'm pretty happy about. 2D pixel art made a huge resurgence, Minecraft became one of the most popular games of the generation despite looking like absolute crap, and two of my picks for "prettiest games ever" were rendered using "two Gamecubes duct taped together." Achievements are still dumb though.

I realize nobody else will care about this, but I got the craziest Pokémon booster pack and feel like I have to talk about it. So boosters are normally ten cards: 5 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 rare, and 1 random card with a reverse-foil treatment. So you can usually expect no more than two rares to a pack at most. Overall, you have about a 1:4 chance of getting a holofoil rare as opposed to a normal one. You also have about a 1:18 chance of getting a Pokémon EX, a rare and powerful card with a special artistic treatment; and a 1:18 chance of getting a Full Art card, a special variant print of a card with artwork that takes up the entire surface of the card instead of just a small windowed section. Through some kind of astonishing coincidence, I wound up with one of each in a single booster pack. That Full Art Meloetta EX is a card I've coveted forever, too. I love the artwork on it.

Rosalina is a separate character introduced in Super Mario Galaxy who lets Mario chill out in her space house between levels. She's only appeared in a few cameo appearances since. She's notable for having an uncharacteristically sad backstory viewable through optional unlockable cutscenes, for being the only Mario character who talks like a regular goddamn human being, and for being significantly less prone to kidnapping than any other female character in the Mario series.

Heads up to anyone like me who's just been checking Nintendo Video every two months or so because Dinosaur Office is the only thing on it that doesn't make you want to claw your eyes out: Nintendo Video is actually good now! Bravest Warriors and Bee and Puppycat have both shown up on it recently, and there's this series of Wind Waker machinima shorts that Nintendo's been producing and putting on there. Also, can anyone recommend some good DSiware/eshop games? For whatever reason I feel compelled to add more games to my 3DS lately.

It's two thirty here and I'm still awake 'cause I can't stop stressing about my family, even though I know I have no reason to. Depression sucks.

Glycon accepts your sacrifice. She seems pleased with you!

yeah but you have to really try hard to fall into space

I think that the Xbone might actually be too big for my entertainment center. Also I'm totally the type of person who cares entirely too much about what electronics look like.