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UnitNumberFive here. I haven't been on much lately since I can't buy Pikmin yet.

I've been watching Game Center CX, the oddly charming and hilarious Japanese TV show where comedian Shinya Arino plays old video games despite a total lack of skill. I have no idea why this game is as entrancing as it is. EDIT: oh man, the Hokkaido Serial Killer episode where Yuji Horii randomly shows up and shows Arino the naked lady they hid in the game is fantastic.

so is this show unironically about incest or what

Now that Ghosts can't be locked in, I'll bet we get a roaming Ghost legendary. That seems like the kind of asshole move that Game Freak would pull. Wonder if Shadow Tag or Arena Trap will still work.

One more thing that popped up: This is kind of a huge thing, competetively.

The best/worst part is that, while that one is fake, it was inspired by some real class acts.

New footage! The customization options seem surprisingly extensive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3qQPNO9D8rw

I'm also starting to feel a little weary, but according to my system clock I've played for 356 hours, which is completely unheard of for me. Also, villagers will start selling you paintings too. You can't tell if they're fake or not when you buy them, but they have a good chance of just giving them to you for free for no reason.

By the way, if anyone's interested, the Sega thing Jake was thinking of was the Nomad. It was a handheld Genesis/Master System and is notable for selling exceptionally poorly and being able to play games from any region without an adapter.

It still blows my mind that they only made one Ecto 1, and that if anything had happened to it they would have had to stop production right there. Especially great when you realize that it's like 20 feet long, handled like a tank, was driven around in New York traffic for publicity, and that by the time Ghostbusters 2 rolled around it was naturally sputtering and spitting smoke without the need for any special effects.

Surprising absolutely nobody, Peach is confirmed to be returning, along with the butt bump. *butt bump*

Zen Mode Darmanitan and Poliwrath have both done those type combinations. The Dark/Psychic/Fighting thing is still only a rumour so far, and has kinda been an ongoing one with every generation. I'm not really sure if I can see it ever happening, since the Dark starter would wind up having not just resistance but complete immunity to some of the Psychic starter's best moves.

Nobody will make a Hunger Games Lords Management until there is a Battle Royale Lords Management to rip it off from.

After you guys described Outlast as a haunted house game (and especially after you mentioned that it was a first-person game without much violent interaction), I thought for sure you would call it a GoneHomelike.

Still partway through the episode, but regarding Vita TV and entirely cross-compatible hardware: The NEC TurboExpress was literally a TurboGrafx-16 stuffed into a portable housing. You could pop the game card out of the home console and play it on the go. It was "the Rolls Royce of handhelds," but had pretty massive problems that came with being a scaled-down console. Text was often unreadable since it was designed for a television and not a two-inch screen, it cost about three hundred dollars in 1990 money, and it got three glorious hours of playtime out of six AA batteries. Plus there's a precedent for weird hardware add-ons like the Gameboy Player.

My phone/internet provider says they're cutting off my service if I don't have at least $184 out of my bill paid by Friday. I just got done buying some groceries and now I'm $50 short of being able to do that. dasfdsklnsdkl

Wizard People, Dear Reader is the best alternate audio for a movie.

Huge news drop today from a leaked issue of Corocoro: Second-stage evolutions for the new starters (DAT FROAKIE EVO). They're all pure types, but it's implied by their movepool that they might become Grass/Ground, Fire/Psychic, and Water/Flying by stage 3: The previously-revealed Mega Mewtwo is exclusive to Pokémon Y. Exclusive to Pokémon X is a second, Psychic/Fighting Mega Mewtwo. Mega Garchomp! Mega Garchomp! A few brand new Pokémon. The Normal dog can have its appearance customized. The cats are the same species but different genders. Movepool is determined by gender, with females being more aggressive and males being a support role. The new fossils are a Rock/Dragon T-rex (fuck yeah) with a new ability that improves biting moves and a Rock/Ice Diplodocus (umm...) with a new ability that changes Normal-type moves to Ice-type and increases their power. And the type chart's been updated. Fairy does 1/2x damage against Fire, Poison, and Steel; and 2x damage against Fighting, Dragon, and Dark. Fighting, Bug, and Dark do 1/2x damage against it; and Poison and Steel do 2x damage. Fairy is completely immune to Dragon. Steel's resistances have been updated now, too. It's gained a resistance to Fairy, but no longer resists Dark or Ghost. They haven't changed type interactions like that since generation 1.

Tellin' you guys. ARG.

Just discovered this. EDIT: aw poop toblix already posted it NEVER MIIIIIND

My poor signature. OnO

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec is so great. It's got this awesome Euro Indiana Jones thing going on that I love.

sometimes I wonder if I'm a robot and my whole life has been some kind of Truman Show deal to test how I react to various stimuli and situations.