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Corocoro leaks! Mega Beedrill (YESSSSSS) and Pidgeot just got revealed; Mega Latios and Latias finally got confirmed (we already knew they existed because some hacker found them in X/Y) along with the return of the Eon Ticket item that lets you catch the one not found in your game; and for some reason there's a two-page spread with the Gen IV and V legendaries, so I imagine they'll be available in some way.

I really hope that the inevitable Game & Watch Amiibo is just a stand with a silhouette cut out of a sheet of black plastic, the kind thin and hard enough that you could probably cut yourself on it.

The first user on the list and "dafox" are both offline, so I assume it's grouped by something else.

Amiibos are weird. They're different from something like Skylanders or Disney Infinity, because those figures are compatible with a single game and have a clear-cut purpose. Meanwhile, Amiibo compatibility seems scattershot and heavily weighted in favour of certain characters (I'll be getting Mario because I guarantee he'll be in EVERYTHING, but might hold off on Wii Fit Trainer because her use seems extremely limited) and it's not really clear what they do in any game besides Smash Bros, where their usage seems pretty weak. Are they going to just be AI buddies in every game? Will they serve as physical DLC in some games the way Infinity figures and Skylanders do? It's frustrating. That said, I have a bunch of those things on my amazon wishlist, so clearly I'm a consumer whore.

I think that there's a certain overestimation of the value of good press over bad press. People like TotalBiscuit should probably be asking why they're being paid by publishers to talk about their games when they can't control what they'll say. Hint: it's because what you say doesn't actually matter, so long as it includes the title of the game. I'm sure every marketing executive at every game studio in the world has seen things like this... ...or looked at how Flappy Bird trended on Google... ...and noticed that the game didn't really take off until right after PewDiePie made a video about it, titled "DON'T PLAY THIS GAME." ...Or noticed just how little gamers actually care about the criticisms that they think or say that they care about. What I'm getting at is: all that shit about there being no such thing as bad press is true, and tools like TB are just that: tools for marketing. Every once in a while a publisher will straight-up ask for positive coverage, but bad press is often just as valuable as good press.

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Aw, poop. How do I do that?

Oh weird; I swear this number was nine thousand and something the other day. ...Maybe a bunch of bot accounts got culled from it or something.

I watched it just the other night and I agree. OuO

I'm just using this to make a portfolio page thing; I think I'd sooner just host with Hover and then do the HTML myself. I'm not a professional, but I've done enough pagebuilding that I think I could do that.

Super Smash Brothers Vietnam

You should at least mark that it's porn.

Chris: I installed both Cloud To Butt and Shut Up. Shut Up is perfect; even better than my previous extension that just turned Youtube comments into nonsense. I forgot that I had installed Cloud to Butt at all until I looked up Scott McCloud's Wikipedia page today though.

I wish I could find the Giant Bomb clip where they talk about the licensed Tron Legacy Xbox Live Gamerpics (or whatever the hell those things are called) that manage to squeeze a "©Disney" into a 70x70px image.

I had to look up what Thunderclap is, but it looks like it's basically an internet petition site that wishes it was Kickstarter. Eesh. Also, they're at more than 9000 clicks as of this writing, so it's possible that graphic might have made things worse by making more people aware of it...

The greatest comic book crossover has been announced.

-Bring your 3DS around on your normal commute. If you find that you're getting streetpasses, consider getting some of the Streetpass Mii Plaza games. It's tempting to get the discounted bundle with all four, but I honestly would recommend just getting two of them, since if you spend too much time in that application it starts to feel like a chore. Monster Manor is my favourite; every session is short but has enough to do. Warrior's Way is also good but will require you to just wait for Streetpasses to accrue so that you can build your army for a lot of the time, especially near the end. Flower Town is nice and laid back but doesn't have a whole lot to actually do, while Mii Force has sort of the opposite problem: every session is a fairly long mini-shmup that will always result in either a victory or a frustrating failure, with no middle ground; so every session will either advance you or be entirely pointless. -Super Mario 3D Land is such a fantastic take on the genre, perfectly blending the aesthetics and structure of Super Mario Bros. 3 with the gameplay of the 3D games. It might be my favourite Mario. -The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is the best Zelda since Wind Waker, and that's saying something. It will probably be especially effecting if you're a fan of Link to the Past, but don't let it stop you if you aren't. Ocarina of Time 3D is pretty much Ocarina of Time plus updated graphics and some new extras, so that's totally worth fourty bucks if you're up for playing Ocarina of Time again. -When you say Pokémon, do you mean X and Y or Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire? Because it might be worth waiting for the latter since the former -while still highly recommended- are clearly lacking in some regards (eg: the postgame is very insubstantial and certain features like Move Tutors and items like Gems are completely missing). -Paper Mario: Sticker Star is sadly perhaps the weakest of the once-great Paper Mario games, both in terms of some questionable mechanical decisions and in the way it seems to have carefully excised a lot of the charm and humour from those games; but in the end it's still a very solid casual Action-RPG. -Animal Crossing: New Leaf is one of those games that you're either not into at all or you dump hundreds and hundreds of hours into over a very long period of time by playing it just a little bit each day. I've put over 400 hours into it and I'm still doing stuff in it almost daily. -Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon is a super charming game that expands nicely on the original, but has terrible boss fights. -Steamworld Dig is on a bunch of things now, but was designed with the 3DS in mind. It's a really fun little Metroidvania Roguelite (oh god video game genre names are terrible). -Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies is potentially the most polished and well-realized version of Ace Attorney, if also the easiest. I'm a hug fan of this series and this might actually be my favourite one despite its problems. -Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask and Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy are slow-to-start but still excellent and very charming logic puzzle games. Those games like to have a bunch of barely-explained continuity stuff on the back end though, so I dunno how heartily I can recommend them. -Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney doesn't quite hit the high heights of either series, but it's still a good standalone entry for both. -Cave Story is on 3DS. You've probably already played it, but this is basically the best version. Don't get Cave Story 3D though. The good one's the one in the eshop. So is Ikachan, Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya's previous game, which is really short but super cute with rock-solid gameplay. -the Guild games are generally really strong. They're a bunch of short, creative games produced by Level 5 and available in the eshop. Standouts for me were Attack of the Friday Monsters (very laid-back adventure game set in seventies-era Toyko in which you play as a new kid in a town where giant monsters supposedly appear every Friday) and The Starship Damrey (very Outer Limits-influenced horror adventure game where you play as someone with no memories stuck in a locked cryopod remotely investigating what happened to the spaceship you're on), Others have felt most strongly about Crimson Shroud (DnD-influenced fantasy RPG where characters are represented by actual tabletop miniatures and there are stats upon stats to explore in minutia). -Pushmo and its sequel Crashmo are probably the strongest puzzle games unique to the 3DS, if that's you're thing. -Gunman Clive is Mega Man, but with a cowboy and for like two dollars. Everyone should have it. -other people seem to like Shovel Knight a lot as a retro Mega Man/Ducktales throwback sort of deal, but I had some pretty major problems with it myself. -do not buy the 3D Classics games. The only really good one is Kirby's Adventure and the 3D in that one is the most slapdash, workmanlike use possible. -Nintendo produced two free to play 3DS games; Rusty's Real Deal Baseball and Steel Diver: Sub Wars. At the low, low price of "technically free," they're worth at least looking into for a bit before you decide if you want to sink any money into them. Neither one will charge you much for a robust experience, though. Rusty is actually based mechanically around trying to spend as little money as possible by haggling with the in-game shopkeeper. Don't forget that there's a ton of classic Virtual Console games in the eshop! Mega Man 2, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, and Mole Mania, for instance! Also don't forget that backwards-compatibility with the ridiculously strong DS library. That's Ace Attorney, The World Ends With You, two entire Pokémon generations, etc.

Super Smash Bros. X and Super Smash Bros. Y? I finally understand "Row! Row! Fight the Power!"

I have! It's been ages since I read Bone, but I know that Tezuka and Buddha in particular was a HUGE influence on Scott McCloud, who was producing work in the same wheelhouse around that time. Of course, McCloud only found Tezuka's work because he used to work in the same neighbourhood as a Japanese bookstore and would look through the imported untranslated manga they carried...

mostly Black with some grey elements and silver teeth. They're always lit green in promotional materials or blue in most of the movies though, so I guess I can kind of see that?

2014 is fucking weird.

Still waiting for Nintendo to realize they've never released a game titled "Mario Kart" and just call the next one that.

I still can't believe they couldn't come up with another synonym for "fight." Nintendo's just gotten really bad at naming stuff, I guess.

Wait, there's an anime version of Terraformars? Are the cockroach monsters still very obviously horrific racist caricatures that the anime community refuses to acknowledge as such?