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Related to the previous discussion, I watched the first Puella Magi Madoka Magica movie! The first part (everything up to Mami's death) was a liiiiittle bit rushed, but otherwise I really like the pacing changes. Moreover, the already gorgeous visuals look even better. I've been thinking of watching the series with a friend who's never seen it before, but now I think the movies might be a better choice. I'm gonna' watch the second one in a little bit.

I've just seen it in the context of discussion of the series name. :T

I did a quick search of that guy's archives. Somebody should seriously tell him that Madoka used the phrase "Puella Magi" in the title because it also translates to Slave to the Deceiver, not just an unusual choice of Latin for "Magical Girl".

It just makes me think of John Stamos.

fell asleep feeling awfully depressed; wok up at 3-something am and started throwing up. I feel terrible. gonna try to go back to bed

I'm so glad Black and White 2 had much better variety available right from the start. My first Hall of Fame team was Samurott, Arcanine, Lucario, Magnezone, Leavanny, and Swoobat. I had most of them before I even hit the third town!

I like Auroros (outside of its terrible typing), but look at the competition. It's not even like last generation where the awesome Archaeopteryx Pokémon compensated by having the most terrible ability in the game. So I think my brain is trying to get its Pokémon fix pretty bad right now. In the last few days I've been doing various things in HeartGold, Black, and Black 2. Mostly HeartGold. I beat the Elite Four, got the eight Kanto gym badges, and finally decided to take a solid evening to catch the roaming beasts. On top of that, you know those medals in Black and White 2 that you get for mono-type Elite Four runs? And the one for beating them with a single Pokémon? I finally got a start on those by taking a Dialga and plowing through. I hated having to use my Elixirs and Full Restores, but really, when else am I going to use them?

I really, really hope there's more than one yellow Wizzrobe.

I've been trying to submit my work to the editor of the zine I'm contributing to, but every time I upload a CMYK PSD to Dropbox the colours go all wonky. It's driving me nuts. Any suggestions?

Oh yeah! I guess I forgot to mention here that Tyrunt and Amaura's evolutions, Tyrantrum and Auroros, were unveiled. I seriously expected Auroros to have at least some visual hook to make it cooler than Tyrantrum, but no. It's totally one-sided. Tyrantrum gets the better typing and might be the most badass Fossil Pokémon ever.

So last night I watched The Dark Knight Returns Parts 1 & 2. I read the comic years ago and hated it, and while this was significantly better it still had a lot of the same problems. The hilarious strawman-level political discussions of Batman by talking heads on TV screens (my favourite being the new-agey-psychobabble-spouting psychologist that we're clearly supposed to disagree with despite being demonstrably correct in the context of the story), the cartoonishly ugly spam-faced people contrasted with the perfectly normal ones for no reasons, the stupid Bat-Tank, everything.

What if the supposed "3" announcement is "Half Life 3D," a remake of the original game for 3D TVs and Oculus Rift. It would be so disappointing that it has to come true.

side note: my theory is that every time Gabe sees a fat joke about him on the internet he pushes HL3 back another day out of spite.

I really appreciate how much work went into hiding stupid jokes into the Pokémon dub just to see if they could get away with it.

The first like 30% of this episode is just everyone interrupting each other. It's great. Unrelated to virtually anything in the podcast: those Blockbuster cases are sort of seen as collector's items now. I know the Virtual Boy ones pop up on ebay from time to time.

Those keyboard pants from Cowboy Bebop: The Movie.

Everything I've been seeing has been positive. Even 4chan likes it, and they hate everything. Also, some actual news from the other day: Wii Fit U is going to be kind of sort of FTP. If you already have the balance board, you can download it in the eshop and play for free for two months. After that you have to register it to the pedometer dealie (which you can buy separately for $20) in order to continue. The download offer will begin November 1st, the packaged version comes out December 13th, and the paid download version goes to regular pricing February 1st. And in completely unexpected news, Wii Sports Clubs is a thing. It's all the original Wii Sports games released digitally individually in HD with new features, improved Wii Motion Plus controls, and online play. They'll be free for 24 hours following their release. After that you can pay $2 for a day pass or $10 to own the game outright. So if you want to keep bowling forever but just play a few hours of tennis with someone, for example, you pay $12. Weird.

Yup; I'm just kind of a butt about it. I play for maybe a half-hour in the middle of the night. I just passed the "Beautiful Town" Ordinance in case I finally forget to log on to water my flowers, though.

So The Wonderful 101 is out and -although I really didn't like the demo all that much- is apparently really super great. Did anyone get it? I hear it sold pretty terribly in Japan. Also, the theme song is goddamned fantastic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=W1Y_bGyck1E

Nick is actually making his own solo company, "Baby Games."

Ever see Playing Dangerous?

233 million CPS.

There are achievements for clicking, and achievements give you milk that you can turn into CPS with kitten workers. ...That may be the strangest sentence I've ever typed.

I feel like I'm going to wear out my mouse.