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If you buy Super Mario World in the eShop right now, you get 50% off Super Mario Bros. 2! This is important to point out, because Nintendo NEVER does sales. Maybe they're learning!

Okay, alternative proposal: every male video game character now wears tight shorts with a noticeable crotch bulge with jiggle physics; which is never ever off-camera. (tegan has no idea what straight girls find attractive. The management is not responsible for tegan being dumb)

squids bees are technically not animals

8x10 glossies of Patrick Klepek autographed by Steve Gaynor

High-five for being a fellow video game baby!

Tanukitsune linked to this comic earlier but I think it deserves to be posted in-thread.

Jeremy Parish elaborated quite elegantly.

I see Independence Day; Signs; comedy movies featuring Adam Sandler, Dane Cook, and Will Ferrel; Underworld; two copies of 300 (DVD and HD-DVD?)... On the other hand, I see Shaun of the Dead and both Up and Toy Story 3 on Blu-Ray. ...I used to work in a video store. I can recognize movies by their spines.

For every hilarious joke comment there are just as many serious ones. These dang kids seem to have a really hard time figuring out the morph ball. So the Nintendo Direct today was sort of butt! We got more Pikmin 3 footage and I guess you can buy New Super Luigi U as a standalone game for thirty dollars if you want to, but that's really all the interesting info there was. Oh, also, I guess Nintendo has certain exclusivity with Sega now. Somebody's inner child is having their mind blown.

I can't mockball, and I'm bad at shinesparking and bombjumping; I'm only really good at walljumping.

Miiverse is glorious.

aw nuts Well, at least you can still get my insightful Super Metroid commentary!

I can't fault someone who owns that many gameboys, but you have some terrible taste in movies.

I never knew how fun sequence breaking Super Metroid was.

Go to Miiverse "User Menu" "Search Users" type "UnitNumberFive" (that's me!) exactly as spelled and capitalized go into my profile, and in the top right you should see a "Friend Request" button. If you haven't set up your friends list yet, hit the home button and go into "Friends" first. It asks you like two questions, but otherwise it won't let you add any friends. We should start a Wii U Friending thread!

guys seriously Miiverse is so fucking great now that I have a non-baby game to see its potential. Every once in a while I'll take a quick break from Super Metroid to post updates about how my sequence breaking is progressing, then get sidetracked by finding beginniners who are stuck on one part of the game or another and wind up sharing helpful doodles.

STILL GOIN' AT IT I've never deliberately done any sequence breaking in this game before. I'm not even sure what I want to do next since I'm now capable of traversing nearly the entire map. I'll probably grab the Speed Booster next since I should be able to cover just about every area after that.

I don't really feel ready to form a definite opinion on the matter yet, but I feel it's worth noting that Muramasa had Raijin and her romantic partner Fujin.

I unabashedly loved Tron Legacy enough to see it in theaters twice and then buy the Blu-Ray.

LOOK AT WHAT YOU MADE ME DO, RODKIN

Super Metroid is very deliberately filled with things you can bypass with either inherent skill or the first tools you get. Specifically; walljumping, shinesparking, and bomb-jumping. There are some rooms with outcrops or bumps that seem to have been chosen at random for aesthetic purposes, but actually are specifically placed so as to give you a spot you can shinespark to, to keep a corridor from being long enough to let you build up a speed boost, etc. There's an absurd attention to detail in the level design of that game. I'm no speedrunner and I've grabbed items ahead of time through pure skill in that game.

There's a Nintendo Direct focused on summer games for the Wii U and 3DS tomorrow! They're also saying they'll have another Nintendo Direct about autumn releases before E3.

Oh man. So Nintendo just Mr. Miyagi'd me into understanding why Miiverse is cool. Just now I was playing Super Metroid, and -despite never really being able to master the bomb jump- managed to grab an energy tank much earlier than you're supposed to be able to.So I was all "Oh man, that was awesome. I wish I could show this off to somebody." And then I was all "Oh wait... I can!" And then I paused to the home menu, took a screenshot, and made a post about it without leaving the game. That's neat!

For the bit about games like Dark Souls that appear to have a linear narrative but secretly gate you with skill: Super Metroid! Or almost any Metroid, really.

The XL ships with a 4GB card. Is there maybe a list of the best cards to get for the 3DS somewhere? I might upgrade to a higher-capacity card as games that I'll want on my system forever keep coming out (Pokémon, Animal Crossing, etc).