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"Fucking iLivid."

FUCK CAGE

Because swatting is so prominent, while cruel, I wonder if this will force police squads to scale back on using that shit just for a search warrant. It seems really out of control to even use swat teams that much. Whatever article I read on it says every time someone pulls a SWAT team prank, it costs whatever local force $10,000 for the trip, and that's ridiculous. I can't imagine it's any more ridiculous than kicking down the door and using excessive force for something like drugs, or someone hijacking an innocent family's wifi for nefarious purposes. http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/10-facts-about-the-swat-teams-of-america-that-everyone-should-know/

Well I think there's two for Gamestop, two for Amazon, and two for buying early and registering with Nintendo. EDIT: More wait, two for Best Buy, Amazon, and Gamestop. Obnoxious. http://www.ign.com/wikis/hyrule-warriors/Pre-Order_Bonuses

Huh, Pac-Man Battle Royale has a set up at a Main Event in Houston but it doesn't seem like it gets used much. Last time I went it was our group of friends hogging it after trying to find another game to play and just returning to Pac-Man. Also Tanks! Tanks! Tanks! but I think mostly people loved the webcam shot.

Guest star Anita Sarkeesian?! I think Idlethumbs became or already was the center of the internet.

I'm wondering about these extra skins for Hyrule Warrior that Nintendo had with certain preorders since this is the first time Nintendo has done this. Will Nintendo maybe be selling these outright later or am I going to have to troll ebay for codes?

Everyone makes mistakes and it's no big deal? I'm not sure of the nature of the job, but if it compromises a lot of skills that aren't specifically important to have and that she wasn't full time (thus making it routine and constantly fresh in the memory), then let her know not to sweat it so much. Hopefully it's not something she was looking to do career wise.

Oh, so that's Quiet's BRILLIANT reasoning for wearing a bikini all the time, especially in the sand swept desert where everyone else has a coat on. The extreme Kojima fans told everyone to wait that all good reasons would be revealed, yet it was just like the more levelheaded fans suspected: bad costume design for a cheap sex sells factor. It has nothing to do with her cloaking ability. I remember when we used to all be able to expect more of Kojima.

Are there Gremlins etched on to the glassware? For shame.

I just assume something someone said in 2006 is just as relevant today if someone were to start playing it. Nothing annoys me more than Gamefaqs where their threads expire in 60 days. It's not a good place for a conversation, but I sometimes want to answer someone's question that was ignored a couple of years ago for a more obscure game so that the info is there.

Fucking Tex-Mex, I love it! I will miss it if I move. Although I already miss it in having moved to Austin, in central Texas. It's all terrible here.

Was this thread for real?

Would it be too much to ask for its walk to be less dorky?

It's also Microsoft money, I would imagine there's an aspect of not caring how much they spend as well. I don't know the exact numbers, but my friend who works at Twisted Pixel said when Microsoft bought them out, they all got very significant raises, no part of the company was reorganized or restructed, they so far have not butt in to their projects, and very generous healthcare benefits were given. I imagine a lot of this is just there's a significant amount of cash to burn. LIKE ON WINDOWS 8! HAHAHAHARRHAHRAR (I use Windows 8.1 and like it a lot though.)

I will probably buy the 25th anniversary one on PS4 whenever I get one. One thing that did bother me was the little rough parts in the vectors that showed up in HD resolutions and those are supposed to all be fixed this time. I wish I could confirm if all of the extras like the scanned design documents and documentary carry over to this new one, because I might put my 15th Anniversary one on eBay if that's the case.

Why don't they just kill the whole cast and take the show off the air? Worked for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Yes please! It doesn't have to be bowling related, just the style, but it can have pins and balls.

HALLOWEEN TIME!

Hey, I'm serious about that bowler shirt. DO EET STEEMPY

Is Costume Quest 2 coming out in time?

I know two of these for sure. Besides the Mario Land one, I have never heard these songs in my life, which sadly reveals I have never played Katamari Damacy, so the rest only guesses. My guess is #19 is a Sonic game, but a bad handheld one post Dreamcast, like a Sonic Advance. Maybe #24 is a newer Castlevania? #25 is: #26 is:

Which is why I said it's both escapism and quality of education. Just because you know people who are well educated doesn't mean my opinion of the matter doesn't count. But really, this whole conversation is just, "What I think," so there's no way to conclusively say anything.

Oh... I suppose that would make more sense. I don't know, I think if they do reflect how we as a nation see these concepts, then they are only disproportionately reflecting the feelings of a certain demographic, much how I feel video games are. Besides Clearchannel radiowave trash which is supposed to be the most progressive of them all, a lot of the shows listed require a cable package, and an HBO package to boot which I feel like reflects a life of a privileged white male who had parents who did well. These things are less expensive now, but watching all of these movies either in theatres or rentals through the 90s and early 2000s was also an expensive feat. I mean they used to need proof that you paid your utility bill at least twice recently to get a Blockbuster card. I would also surmise that this popularity in young adult fiction, mostly the fantasy kind, is both a combination of a need for escapism and a failed public school system where your quality of education is dependent on the amount of property taxes taken from the houses around you. There is a certain reading level needed to crack open even Huckleberry Finn. No joke, even in my high school if you weren't in what they called K Level classes, you were watching the movie versions of Scarlet Letter, Tale of Two Cities, or Hamlet.

I read about half of the linked article before it annoyed me so much I had to close it. I did check some of the comments first and they pretty much confirmed what was bothering me so much. The article writer was somehow trying to link popular TV shows and feminism to showing how adult development has become stagnant, but many comments seemed to link this hiccup in development more to the death of job stability, the decreasing value of the average workers' wages, and student loan debt. All of these link to this preparation that people in the United States should become this centuries old idea of someone who is well educated and then brings home the bacon for decades on end. Routine and the complacency with it is adulthood to me. Except no one can get a fucking routine anymore because of all of this economic turmoil. To act like TV characters has really had some kind of impression on who we are is silly to me. Also the article in question was starting to rant about how women are the majority voice of singers today, except it's silly because all of these major feminist singers we idolize are all still record label puppets. The people who write their lyrics, music, direct their music video, organize their tours, do their art direction are all predominantly men and mostly the same men. I don't know why we have to look at the disgusting top 40 Clearchannel deals as some kind of change for the better. You really just have the same 4 or 5 producers or writers holding credits on that list "competing" against themselves. Just seems like the article is written from the perspective of someone who is really comfortable and only frame of reference in life is what is immediately on the radio or cable TV. Annoying. I'll submit more than anything being needed at a work place and being able to provide to a family is what makes you feel like an adult, not that you go home in the evening and watch F-Troop on TV when men were men.