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I'm interested in doing this, but I don't know how to make games and will likely be busy moving soon.

I owned a third-generation iPod Touch for a while and thought it was very stylish and fun to use, but poorly-made for something so expensive. It stopped working in the same amount of time that it took for me to break cheaper players in the past and would have cost a fortune to repair or replace, so I moved on and bought an imported luxury Korean media player that cost me just as much but was much more flexible and has thus far lasted me five times as long. Post-Jobs Apple just feels kind of shiftless. The Watch will sell for a time, but it's fundamentally damaging to the all-in-one convenience that is essentially the impetus behind the iPhone. Making a device that does an adequate job replacing multiple devices is smart, but I feel like they're throwing that under the bus by definitively saying it's still too inconvenient to have to pull it out of your pocket and offering an incredibly expensive solution to an incredibly minor problem. I don't like the specifics of a lot of Apple merch, but this is the first time they've made something that I feel is fundamentally just a useless novelty. I don't even care about the $10k model because at least that one's not even pretending that it exists as anything but an overpriced status symbol.

He managed to arrange things so that he would get royalties an residuals for what turned out to be his entire lifetime past his season five leave, and ended up giving away all of it to charity when he found out he had cancer. He picked some questionable charities (namely PETA), but he was a legitimately admirable guy.

So if I were interested in playing The Phantom Pain but can't even beat the first room in MGS1 and probably couldn't make it through an entire series, what are my options?

The 3DS version. Also, I beat Rogue Legacy. Really satisfying podcast game. Just something I can tune out and play without really having to pay attention to what was going on. I kinda wanna fill out the upgrade tree since I was so very close to finishing it.

So I finally got around to seeing The Book of Life. It felt like a really excellent movie that decided to deliberately hamstring itself by playing into the expectations of western animation; namely grating and incongruous pop music interludes and female characters that -while generally admirably written- are designed to be the same conventionally attractive heart-faced, almond-eyed, small-nosed, long-haired CalArts Stepford Wives from every other animated movie despite ostensibly inhabiting the same world that the male cast of expressive and inventive puppet people does. It was still a film that I loved and that I personally feel like the world needed, but it was like watching as some beautiful animal deliberately stepped in a bear trap. Also, every single shot feels about three-quarters of a second too long.

I feel like "board" is some weird holdover from midway games or something, like how some people still inexplicably call controllers "paddles" presumably because the controllers for Pong and its derivatives were filling in for actual ping-pong paddles. I've always felt like it might have to do with how early arcade games only had a single, non-scrolling screen, resembling very primitive electronic games where electronics might be use to supplement an actual tabletop-style game board. Like all the weird vintage crap that the Game Center CX guys would run into whenever they visited old Japanese arcades.

The PA guys have kind of not been doing anything to discourage gater-like behavior at PAX since the Dickwolves fiasco. This is just payoff on something I expected to happen months ago.

As much as I love both things being depicted, that's maybe too NSFW to not at least put behind a spoiler or something.

So I've been thinking about it and I think I've narrowed down the identity of the guy on the last page who doesn't understand the function of hugs.

One kind of fascinating thing about Miramichi (my old hometown) is that the use of the word "lad" as a pronoun. Everyone; regardless of age, status, or gender, was "lad." Sometimes there were "young lads," but mostly it was "that lad" or "those lads" or or "the lads." In this case I guess it would be "you lads." I'm not going to start calling you "you lads."

All it needs is a crying Statue of Liberty in there somewhere.

I can't believe nobody's been making any jokes about how Valve managed to fin another thing to add a "2" to the end of instead of making a third thing.

Brad Bird just needs to set up some kind of Speedtree type deal where he sells whatever tech made The Iron Giant have deliberately imperfect linework, because that shit still looks good. That and more studios should consider resisting the urge to run their CG at the full available 24fps and instead force it to run at 8-12fps like their hand animation.

I'v'e always loved the story about how Pixar deliberately designed Buzz Lightyear to be the coolest toy ever, and then there was a massive shortage of the actual toy after the movie came out, because they had designed the coolest toy ever and every kid wanted one.

He had that radio station in Saints Row IV.

A South American retailer is listing a May 29th release date for Greninja, Jigglypuff, "Splatoon Boy," "Splatoon Girl," and "Splatoon plus amiibo Squid". Interesting.

Guys, I finally found the perfect image to describe GG.

They should replace their rating system with Dan diving every developer into "dorks" and "cool guys."

I'm getting good at breaking Rogue Legacy.

I really, really hope that the six new Steven Universe episodes coming next week aren't an indication that the show is being cancelled. If they're just trying to push out the last of it as fast as possible, I'm gonna be really sad.

Oh, also... It's the Mirror of Erised. It's like the weakest possible name for a magic mirror. COME ON.

Google makes it absolutely clear that it is anti-GG. GG is, naturally, kind of freaking out right now, because they still think they can convince the company that knows everything about everyone that they aren't a hate group.