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Teehee!

Well that sucks.

But I addressed exactly that in my post why do you not acknowledge it. ):

I dunno it made sense to me. "We don't want to tackle controversial and/or socio-political topics, so we don't." I mean, you could certainly argue (and I would agree) that they're far TOO conservative in that regard - it's not like having a female as the main character in a Zelda style game would be bad for the game - but it's completely fair to say "our goal is to deliver fun gameplay, not deep stories." At least, that's how I interpreted it through the veil of Japanese-to-English translation.

Man Troll Warlord is the funnest. I enjoy taking on five Meepos solo and winning. And then watching the other team get mad at me because I won. "noob" So rude. ): YOU'VE BEEN TROLLED.

I found this last night when I first saw the thread and was baffled. http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-increasing-staff-to-forge-more-games-and-new-ips-256809.phtml AKA "typical Nintendo talk of the future" Maybe that's what he's talking about?

Well even at schools where boys and girls learn together (well, mine, at least), the girls' writing was generally more... bubbly. Lots of round wide curves, instead of the boys' more sloppy, angular style.

Handwriting was taught to me in school (about 20 years ago, I suppose), although it was private school. Maybe public schools threw it away first. I dunno if private schools would even still do it. Handwriting is fun! Sort of. I don't really remember how to do cursive. Although I suppose if I just started doing it, it'd come back to me.

How rude!

That's stupid. But since you're not saying another word on the subject, I'll just leave it at that.

But mostly just Congrats Nick.

When you have a billion people attacking you from all angles, it's hard NOT to snap back. Really really fucking hard. So I'm empathetic toward Mike. He made a mistake and was informed that he was a bigoted piece of shit and told to die and etc. The real problem is not that he said something in ignorance. The real problem is that people got mad at him for it. If all of those people directed that passion and anger at the RIGHT people, then maybe it would actually do something. From everything I've heard, I don't believe for a second that he's actually bigoted - just that he doesn't understand some things. So why does the internet at large berate him for it, instead of trying to rationally educate? Yes, he definitely should learn to reign in his assholish tendencies, but he's not the only one at fault. It's shit like this that used to drive me away from feminists. The militant "if you say ANYTHING wrong, I'm going to MURDER YOU" attitude. Obviously not everyone's like that, but the people who aren't are the ones who should be the most vocal. But that's not how it is, and it sucks. It's difficult to see the good in any given movement when it's always overflowing with rage.

I don't know the full story about all of this, but that post by Gabe seemed pretty genuine and believable. The people on the Right Side of a debate can be and often are just as hostile and unforgiving as the people they're fighting against. And I know full well what it's like to accidentally explode because a bunch of people are pushing your buttons at once. And I'm not even an internet faux-celebrity! U: Whether or not that was the actual case in THIS situation, I do not know. Doo dee doo.

So, Hugo, huh? That just triggered a memory about something I haven't thought of in a long, long time. Fun/sad story: I had my dad print out walkthroughs for all kinds of adventure games when I was a kid. Like literally just print them out and give them to me. I'd hole-punch 'em and put 'em in a big folder, the kind with the metal bits for holding hole-punched files. I would read those walkthroughs. One of them was Hugo. It was at the front (because I didn't alphabetize) and I read it a lot. But I never played the game, ever. Still haven't to this day. Now I think I will. God I wish I still had that folder. It must've gotten thrown away at some point, but I took it everywhere. I would read it while my brother was practicing indoor soccer and I was up in the bleachers. Haha Jesus what a nerd I am.

Oh man, me, too! By the time I got my own computer, my dad had accumulated like three boxes full of those 3.5" inch floppies! Sooooo many games. Many of them were shareware, but I'd say almost half were full copies. Haha goddamn. I still have all the files from all those disks in a folder on my computer. Every now and then I get the urge to run through them with DOSBox. It's been a while. This is making me itch again. D: My dad is definitely the one responsible for my love of video games. The first game he BOUGHT for me was Day of the Tentacle. He just came home with a box one day, and was like, "here you go!" The beginning of the end of my freedom from the PC tyrant. MAN. NOSTALGIA INDEED.

Haha I like that analogy. I have nothing else to say other than that I'm now completely turned off of Thief. Oh except to people who still want to compare it to Dishonored: lol@u.

You don't sleep on your own face?

It's not piracy is the owner of the game/license/whatever refuses to let me buy it. I mean technically it is. But it isn't! Fuck that. Also Zeus your'e totally a pirate 'cause you could've bought MI1 and 2 on steam, and even turned off all the new art/voice stuff. TSK. TSK. I'm so ashamed of you!

Last Crusade is HARD. Loom is super short. Dunno if that will convince you either way, but there you go!

I've never beaten Maniac Mansion (or made it past like half an hour) and Day of the Tentacle is one of my favorite video games ever. Also if you really want to, ^Not a real spoiler. But whatever.

Yeah that's true. Last part is definitely particularly heinous. But at least it's only a SECTION of the game instead of the whole damn thing. Unlike Monkey Island. Sam & Max has backtracking, but travel between areas is near instant. Again, unlike Monkey Island. Also I don't really care about the backtracking. It's the TRAVELING. Monkey Island's puzzles are just as "backtracky", but more annoying because it's so slow.

Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, Fate of Atlantis are my top three and they're all vastly superior. (I have not played Grim Fandango or Full Throttle or any of the other LA MI games.) IN MY OPINION, OBVS. It's mostly the map, the traveling that ruins it for me. Not the puzzles. I sorta explained this earlier, but basically if I'm already struggling with a solution, don't make me travel back and forth across a bunch of different areas super slowly. Please!

Well it's good you're starting with some of the worst-designed ones. X: X: X: *runs away*

lame nintendo laaaaame They also apparently made Resetti a one-time thing unless you buy into it (by rebuilding the center as a development project) because he was scaring kids or something? What.

Okay well I explained the reason for the Tom Nook "hate" (which isn't even hate, it's just acknowledgment that he's some kind of mafia lord - also known as: a running gag), so I don't really know what else to tell you!