“I’d sell you, too, Dad.” #bonding

It’s called lateral thinking, aka. “thinking outside the box.” Just because you don’t complete a task in the way the task was designed to be completed doesn’t make it any less valuable. In fact, it probably makes it more valuable as the displayed creativity could have other far more uselful applications.

Nothing about the article indicates that the person in question couldn’t accomplish the lightning-dodge themselves. Not only did he have to have an understanding of what the challenge required to overcome it, he had to have a deep enough understanding of engineering and programming to build a robot-assisted method for…

I like to think of life as an rpg. For instance, this guy clearly spec’ed differently than me. We can both get the same result, but using differing skill sets.

The game achievement is more an effort in sheer tedium, if it’s about reaction time, patience, and keeping calm than any number of schmups test those abilities far better and more accurately. This guy built a robot, and you find it sad that he didn’t just press X 200 times in a row instead?

. . . Building a robot is part of their abilities. Getting good at pressing a button when the screen flashes. That’s a good ability to improve! (sarcasm) Building a robot to do something tedious for you. THAT’S a good ability to have.

It’s gonna be okay, buddy.

You're so edgy and cool. Can we be friends?

As mva5580 and Silvermember said in different words, if you truly didn’t care about Amiibo at all you wouldn’t have clicked on the article, much less commented on it. Be true to yourself. That’s the greatest gift you can give you.

... or Geno making a guest star appearance in the muppets?

Depending on your belief of the afterlife, yes?

They blur the lines between good and evil.

Prepare to blast off!

They ordered to go.

New recruit!

jokes on you if he works in a bar or a pub

Unless he worked at a pub.

On the plus side, you’ll be rich when the world goes to hell.

But “exclusive” is a joke on Xbox One, so we can just wait a little while and play it on PC.

Push the button. No, push the button above the one that is also to the right of your thumb. If I wanted you to push the other one I would said the other one. Ok now push the other one, hold it down and push the one that is also to the right of your thumb. No, put your thumb back where it first was. If only we could…