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I don't know if I'm disappointed or pleasantly surprised that someone so ridiculous sounding is actually super talented.

Happy Canada Day!

Oh man, Nier. I fucking love this game. I'd go so far as to say it was one of my favourite games of the last generation, in fact. It's really a shame that its biggest claim to fame was probably that one reviewer who couldn't figure out the fishing bit. Definitely play it at least twice. NG+ is really generous and starts you off halfway through the game with all your stuff instead of back at the beginning again. One of the endings does something really divisive that I personally love (warning: tremendous spoiler):

OH MY GOD

at one point that kitten's just like "I'm gonna be doing this, and if you get hit, it's your own fault."

Nintendo Land is great for multiplayer and you should totally try it at some point, but also a budget title, so don't use your free game on that one if you want anything else on the list. I think Game & Wario is too. Pikmin 3 and Wind Waker are both fantastic, but I'd give the edge to Pikmin if I had to choose. It has great multiplayer and a bunch of challenge maps and stuff too.

Hey, Small Businessman.

Happy birthday also, Subbes!

I made him a birthday avatar last night, but he hasn't been around all day. Happy birthday anyway, toblix!

I'm not sure where the comparison is coming from, because 1001 Spikes sold itself entirely on its extreme bullshit difficulty.

I started Paradise Kiss (found the first colume for two bucks at a local comic shop) and remembered why I generally don't like a lot of shoujo. It's kind of a tonal mess with bad panel layouts so far, which had been my experience with a lot of work in that area. At least I haven't run into any of those pages with nothing but completely empty vertical panels and poorly-placed word balloons that Fruits Basket was so fond of.

I'm out. The Criterion club works because everything's taken from a selection from a service that is already a mainstay for a lot of forumgoers (which kind of makes it fall apart outside the US, honestly...), but the closest comics have to a service like that is something like Comixology, and that selection is severely limited. The only way I could see us all reading some of the best comic books is by buying them, and I can't afford that.

AND HIS LEG TOO! Sadly it's not hanging from a ceiling by a length of fishing line, but it sounds like the guy was working on a sweet display case for it. The same guy owns a number of other props from the film including a Mr. DNA animation cel and an original master maquette that the baby velociraptor puppet was based on. This was actually available just to buy outright from this place, meaning the Thumbs totally could have spent some of that sweet, sweet Kickstarter dosh on it. Here's the short story of what the arm's been up to for the 18 years leading up to this dude buying it.

Wait, is Gremlins 2 really in the Criterion collection? Because that movie is actually a brilliant piece of filmmaking. The first movie is a fairly decent 80s film that gets put up on a much higher pillar than I really feel it's earned; the second is an amazingly anarchistic piece of self-sabotage deliberately meant to kill the franchise. Joe Dante wanted the first movie to be a one-and-done deal, but was pressured into making a sequel by the studio. He only agreed on the grounds that he be given full creative control, and made a weird slapstick parody of the Hollywood sequel. It lampoons some of the more absurd elements of the original film (namely that ridiculous Santa Claus backstory that Kate has) and eventually completely breaks down into fourth-wall-shattering chaos. It's the best.

This this this this. While my experiences with animated films in cinemas has generally been okay, one annoying kid is all it takes to ruin it. I mae the mistake of seeing Monster House around the very end of its run. The only people there were the kids whose parents don't take them to the earlier showings because they don't know to shut up.

What I caught of the Paper Mario 2 run was pretty fantastic. It involved a glitch where the NPC Flavio followed Mario around for the entire second half of the game, climaxing with the final cutscene of characters around the world cheering Mario on in his final fight, with Flavio appearing in the background of every single scene as some omnipresent weirdo.

I like classic Nick because he's the one most likely to drive the podcast toward ridiculous shit. I feel like the modern Thumbs moment that most captures the feel of the very early episodes was Nick talking about playing games with his girlfriend at Disneyland. I notice Nick hasn't mentioned his girlfriend since then, and I like to imagine that she dumped him after learning that he cheated at Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters.

I normally don't like being pedantic, but I'm disappointed that none of you have spelled Zuul correctly.

One of my favourite things in Sam & Max is that Max stays president for the remainder of the series.

It's a real shame that Picturebox isn't publishing anymore, because the Ten Cent Manga line was a fantastic idea. I have The Mysterious Underground Men and want to get The Last of the Mohicans before it becomes impossible to find.

I damaged the charge port on my 3DS. It still charges fine, but I don't feel like it'll hold out forever. It costs a hundred and fifty bucks to have it repaired, and I'd lose any saved data on the system. Right now I feel like I should just see how it goes for a while, and eventually bite the bullet and just buy a new one when there's a deal on. At least that way I'd keep my data and get to pick a colour I like rather than getting stuck with another red one. Still, this sucks.

This and 1001 Spikes have been the first instances where I've really wished that cross-buy were a thing that Nintendo would do. I think it's theoretically possible for a developer to implement it on their own, since there's precedent for games being discounted depending on what games you've bought before. 1001 Spikes gets discounted to $10.01 for anyone who's bought a previous Nicalis game, for instance. Presumably you could discount a game to $0.00 if someone already bought the other version, but it's not really fair for devs to have to implement it as a workaround. Also, let me know how that Streetpass content is, because I'm still a little torn between which version I want and Streetpass stuff is a big part of the reason why.

Those games are otherwise pretty, but I also find Rayman platforming really floaty and slippery, which is my primary reason for not playing those games.