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Dai Gyakuten Saiban is now Dog Gyakuten Saiban. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TayVCvUCImM&feature=youtu.be

GB's coverage was pretty incredible. I was aware that Home pulled in boatloads of money, but I wasn't aware that was mostly from marketers filling it with stuff like "Clearasil Kart Racing" or the ability to dress your avatar as the Uncharted 3 promotional Subway cup.

Roundup so far: Homestar Runner updated for real Edmund McMillen announces Binding of Isaac for 3DS, Wii U, and Xbox One Tumblr Executive Suite 2016 (Productivity Edition). I guess I have no way to get rid of their Clippy parody until the day is over A bunch of shit from Google ThinkGeek's usual slew of fake products, the only decent one of which is Game of Thrones Clue

With Nintendo having only finalized their DeNA deal like two weeks ago, I expect that the new unified account system is still up in the air.

You can't even turn off the automatic screen dimming on the Vita after three years on the market. I think you're giving Sony far too much credit as to how much work they're willing to do on a feature once it's out there.

I've been treating the Steven Universe lesbian/asexual relationship the same way I've been treating the Korra lesbian/bi one: I feel like both interpretations are valid and -while I personally have a clear idea in my head about which I personally prefer to read it as- I don't like the idea of deciding that if one reading is correct, the other should therefore be treated as "wrong." Also, gay relationships are absolutely a new thing for western cartoons, so I'm pretty pleased that we're starting to see them outside of anime; especially since most of the gay character depictions in anime either end up getting butchered by the time they reach North America, typically only reach much older niche audiences, or have inherent problems that come with Japanese societal views on homosexuality (namely that it's deserving of ridicule, simply a phase for teenage girls, or built on a strict power relationship in the case of gay men). Keep in mind that it was a pretty big deal when two men kissed on the cheek in Clarence (after being cut down from having it be a kiss on the mouth with one of them holding flowers), and that was just last October. Adventure Time was allegedly explicitly not allowed to say that two of its female characters were once in a relationship. Gravity Falls had to straightify an elderly lesbian couple and remove a transgender symbol from an episode that aired in November. Kids aren't getting anywhere near the levels of representation that you think they are.

The gems are physically genderless (or at least mono-gender), but they pretty clearly identify with and are codified as female entities (and as SAM said, presumably chose those forms themselves). In any case I wouldn't shit all over a group that already gets next to no representation with "uh technically"s when the show's creators are pretty clearly on board with those fans. While this isn't the first time I've seen someone pull out the "they can't be gay if they're all rocks" thing, I still haven't seen anyone realize what kind of next-level queerness that would imply about Greg's relationship with Rose.

Give it to meeeeeee.

I have a CD polisher kit like that. I don't use the sandpaper, but the actual polish stuff and a soft cloth usually works. Barring that, toothpaste sometimes works, at least for audio or video discs. Not sure about games. I managed to snag a micro right before they got crazy expensive on ebay. I paid $70 for a practically-new Famicom one. It could have been cheaper if I'd bought one when they were new and failing, but I'm still pretty pleased about what I got.

Sure, why not?

So I'm in a bad place right now. I want to go to Halifax. Or somewhere. I don't usually live in one place this long and, as much as I love this apartment, I'm getting really restless here. It's a small town. The minimum wage is bad, the job market is bad, and my only close friend/mentor figure is moving to Germany in May. On top of that, lately I've had reason to fear that my estranged abusive family might be figuring out where I live. But... time is of the essence here. After my friend moves, I'll have nobody to help me get my stuff to Halifax, and while I've received a potential job opportunity there, they haven't responded to my request for a phone interview instead of an-person one. And any real estate company I talk to understandably wants a co-signer or proof that I can afford a place, because my income right now is so low. The smart thing would be to keep looking for a job in Moncton and spend a year saving up for a move, but I dunno if I can even do that. It's a wasteland here and it's killing me. I just wanna get out.

So Canadian electronics chain Future Shop closed today. They got bought up by Best Buy a few years back while Best Buy started setting up shop in Canada, and now all Future Shop locations are either being converted into Best Buys or shut down permanently (with no advance notice to the staff, of course). This is coming like two months after Target (who bought and replaced Canadian department store chain Zellers a few years ago) decided to pull out of Canada. Canadian businesses keep getting "rescued" by American chains that then turn around and leave us with nothing. It's infuriating to me.

I hate that the building management here won't replace the laundry equipment here. I know that washers and dryers are expensive, but they've been using the same ones at least since I moved in and they've never worked right. It's a roll of the dice every single time I do laundry, from "will the coin slot get stuck and prevent the machine from turning on" to "will both washers just do nothing when started" to yesterday's super-fun "will I have to fish my clothes out of elbow-deep black water and run them through the dryer five times before accepting that they'll never be dry again."

How does Kojima still look like so young? He's in his fifties now.

For what it's worth, amazon STILL has new slim PS2s in stock. I actually bought mine new at Blockbuster in 2009 for only fourty dollars. There's so many of them out there that you can probably find a replacement one fairly easily in case this ever happens again. Also I forgot you jerks got Gregory Horror Show and we didn't. It's one of the only PS2 games that hasn't been emulated too.

There's actually a whole playlist of Inspector Gadget episodes with Gadget himself edited out, which turns it into a kind of awesome Johnny Quest type thing starring Penny.

"The Master Chief Collection"

I haven't really spoken to my parents in five years.

I think Miles is actually biracial, but neat. Also, I didn't realizethat the new Captain America used to be Falcon. That explains why they've been pushing Falcon so hard in other media lately. I guess he'll probably replace Cap in one of the movies too.

Recipe idea: make a grilled cheese sandwich, but replace butter with mayonnaise. (I've done this. It's actually delicious, but not enough to compensate for the deep shame you'll feel)

Chris, thank you for the vindication. Just the other night I was telling someone that Bloodborne looked like the 2004 Van Helsing movie and they said they weren't seeing it.

I wish I could afford some of that sweet new shoutout space. It's a really good idea.

The apartment people want a co-signer, or some other proof that I can pay up. I'm trying to get a phone interview with the Halifax job. Maybe they'll accept if I can show that I'll have more income.

Trivia time: Nic Cage's real name is Nicholas Coppola, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, so his cousin actor would be either actress Sofia Coppola or one of any number of semi-obscure musicians. Nic Cage actually named himself after Marvel Comics' Luke Cage, and then named his son Kal-El because I guess he didn't want his stupid comic book reference to go full circle and just wanted to make a new stupid comic book reference instead.