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It bugs me that you all agreed that Nintendo iterates very slowly and deliberately but also wrote off Pokémon sequels as being more of the same. They're admittedly pretty samey, but they do make a lot of changes and additions that affect the metagame. Also, I appreciate the irony of bringing up the Alien vs Aliens horror movie vs action movie argument, then later trying to compare Alien Isolation with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. EDIT: Also Shantae was totally the best platformer of the year and nobody from Idle Thumbs OR Giant Bomb played it and that BUMS ME OUT.

I wanna talk about 2016 instead. January 2016: a Nintendo Direct. Iwata is speaking onscreen while text slowly appears one letter at a time, like the opening titles for "Alien" P "You may remember that in 2010, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros.; in 2011, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Zelda; and in 2012, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Kirby." P N "We would like you to join us in 2016 as we celebrate another major milestone for one of our most beloved series." P K N "We realize that they may not be as old as Mario, Zelda, or Kirby; but we'd like to personally thank you for welcoming these creatures into your hearts all the same." P K M N "That's why in 2016, we're going to be celebrating the anniversary of..." *music abruptly shifts tone as the last few letters quickly appear to spell "PIKMIN"* "Oh." ...They share an anniversary, you see. I am not good at jokes.

Would anyone be willing to trade me a Reshiram? It's the only one I'm missing from the National Dex, besides some Event Legendaries.

All the tipping did was give you a small boost to stylishness. The default shiny encounter rate in Gen VI was bumped from 1/8192 to 1/4096, plus it's improved by an unknown amount with the Shiny Charm and chain fishing and horde battles have high shiny rates. I breed most of my shinies using the Masuda Method, which still gives something like a 5x likelihood bonus.

Hey, I didn't see a single shiny until X/Y. Taillow is the first one I've caught without having any kind of modifier on the shiny rate. I beat the postgame today! I fought a dragon and rode it into space! It looks like the Battle Resort is tailor-made for breeding (there's a second daycare, a circular route that works just like the tower in Lumiose, and the IV-checker guy is right there too), so I guess I'll fill out the last of my national dex and then start breeding shinies again!

I cannot wait for Wednesday.

I refuse to apologize for that joke.

Or into the grindr, as it were.

I think I nailed it a while ago.

what if every character has special edition guybrush hair

That's not what he said, he said they were upscaled versions of the original graphics.

I seriously expected there to be an "it was live footage all along!" twist at the end, but then it never happened, so I guess they just left that in their canned footage? Hopin' for Persona 5.

I love that yearoftheps3.info is still using the Spider-Man font from the first version of the PS3.

You should absolutely listen to the old ones.

Ridley Scott has outright stated that that's what the scene is about. it's even a porn magazine, for fuck's sake

I am 99% certain that already exists. I'm talking about a purely automated process, with an NFC tag embedded in your heart or some shit.

Spoilering for plot details in Alien (the movie) and because this is some disturbing stuff to discuss:

"what was the last thing logged on his Google glass?" we need a technology that detects when your heart stops beating and then deletes your porn folder

It weirds me out that they've got a very obviously new (and really super young-looking?) Sarah Connor actress, but the same old (old) Arnold. Also, it weirds me out that people still want to see Arnold in anything, because he's always been an astonishingly bad actor, he just happened to be super buff at one point.

GODDAMNIT

Homer not even being sorry about being indirectly responsible for Maude's death is just the worst.

One of the many touches I appreciate in the Scott Pilgrim movie is that the first part of the opening credits deliberately recreate the effect from Guitar Hero, even going so far as to include a carpet with five columns to match the note highway.

3DS and Wii U. The 3D is really good and it's only twenty bucks.