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It's about time we just made a thread for this. So the Nintendo Direct today closed with a crazy sizzle reel for 3D World which included showing off a bunch of crazy unlockable stuff and weird shenanigans. Basically this is looking like maybe the most incredible Mario game in years. I choose to believe that we're getting this to make up for all those NSMB games.
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Yeah, I have a whole bunch of plants that I'm attached to. That sucks.
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Got another! Sadly, it's got the wrong ability and I'll need to keep breeding them.
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My response to the episode was more of a
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Oh, also, worth noting, that Rotom has perfect IVs across the board.
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
tegan replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
Sorry, I use this Chrome extension and the post changed to reflect that when I edited it. -
Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
tegan replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
That is some cringe-inducing shit. EDIT: I just got to the "SJWs ruined cartoons" thing oh my goooood EDIT EDIT: does this guy think that 1 out of 10,000 and 99 out of 100 add up to 100%? EDIT EDIT EDIT: I had to stop. I think my favourite thing about this is his continued comparison of video games to Bugs Bunny cartoons. Buddy, unless you are secretly eighty years old, the Looney Tunes shit you saw on TV as a kid was already censored to hell, and if you really want to see them completely unchecked, you can go buy the uncensored versions on Blu-Ray at fucking Wal-Mart. Nobody took your goddamn racist cartoons away. -
I thought the domain squatting was kind of a crappy thing to do, but also so inconsequential that I don't care. Also, Lego owns legos.com and used to have it redirect to a message chastising people for incorrectly pluralizing their brand name. They had this coming.
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THEY KEEP PULLIN' ME BACK IN (I also caught a shiny Zigzagoon while EV Training it)
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Obligatory Comical YouTube Thread II: The Fall of YouTube
tegan replied to pabosher's topic in Idle Banter
Neil Cicierega is a treasure. -
I was supposed to be out of this apartment by now, and now the damn thing is falling apart. I've spent about sixty dollars trying and failing to fix the toilet and just today a lamp fell off of the ceiling.
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The Business Side of Video (Space) Games EXCLUSIVELY ON IDLE THUMBS
tegan replied to Henroid's topic in Video Gaming
Yeah, Steve Jobs had an annual salary of $1, and that guy obviously wasn't hurting for cash. It's more or less a way to make yourself look more gracious than you actually are. -
MOBA. Pineapple. Politically Correct. I'm one of the cool kids.
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To be fair, all N64 games were ugly. EDIT: Sorry, I don't mean to pick on Jake. It's just that I did a hundred percent run of Mario 64 less than a week ago when it hit VC and I feel it absolutely holds up.
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Jake "Nintendo Games" Rodkin wasn't into Mario 64?
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
tegan replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
I used to attend one! They were often prima donnas, but usually nice enough once you got to know them. that unicycle guy though... that's just unsafe with this much ice on the ground. -
Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
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I thought Dan's policy of "fuck people on unicycles" was silly until I saw a guy riding a unicycle in the snow today. Fuck people on unicycles. -
There is a huge problem among Canadians around my age of being apathetic about voting and being content with the way things are now, because our country is superficially much more socially progressive than the US. It's awesome that gay people can get married here. Not so awesome that we treat aboriginals like garbage and have a double digit unemployment rate in virtually every province east of Quebec. This election I intend to finally start chipping in, as much as I can. For those unfamiliar with Canadian politics: it's not all it's cracked up to be. PMs tend to either be in office for way too long or way too little. The current PM's held the position for nine years, while the sole female PM was only there for just over four months.
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I tracked down a copy of Beautiful Darkness. It's gorgeously illustrated, and tells you the bare minimum you need to know about the little people in a disjointed-feeling but very compelling way. It's not even made clear what they are, only that they have the naivety of children and are capable of profound casual acts of cruelty. Ending the book with the protagonist realizing that the people she had formerly treated with the same kindness and respect she afforded everyone were uncaring monsters and ultimately killing them when she realizes that they'll only contribute to her suffering is about as dark as you can get. The whole thing is kind of one part The Smurfs and ten parts Lord of the Flies. I enjoyed it a lot.
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I watched Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: The Motion Picture Dracula Untold. As someone who is a huge fan of the classic Universal monster lineup, I ...actually really liked it? It suffers from modern blockbuster movie bullshit (there's some shakycam fights, it doesn't even make an attempt to pass the Bechdel test, and the CGI bats everywhere look ridiculous), but it does some legitimately clever stuff with the Dracula mythos. I mean, it's not a great movie, but it's way less stupid and cynical than it has any right to be, given what it is. They made a good version of what they set out to achieve and it opens up a lot of potential re-interpretations of the rest of the pantheon. Oh, also, the final scene makes Dracula look like the shittiest PUA, which is unintentionally hilarious.
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Obligatory Comical YouTube Thread II: The Fall of YouTube
tegan replied to pabosher's topic in Idle Banter
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I love that Shirow Masamune has a very distinct body of work as an artist, it's just that Ghost in the Shell is the exception. It seems like his career trajectory was to crank out GITS somewhere between making really terrible hentai.
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
tegan replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
Yeah, if I were a little bit older or lived in a large part of the US, not caring about politics could mean the difference between getting married or not. -
Idle Thumbs 204: The Reader's Pleasure
tegan replied to Chris's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams
what a fool I've beeeeeeeeen -
Moeblobs always kind of remind me of the ongoing equivalent trend in western animation of depicting female characters with the exact same childlike features: heart-shaped face, large almond-shaped eyes, and a very small nose and mouth set very low on the face. It not only looks bad from a visual standpoint, it's creepily infantilizing.