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obviously mario is an immortal elder spirit of the mushroom kingdom, who cannot age

aaagh you see. this is exactly what happens when you start caring about video game canons. you get lied to. confused. you get hurt ;(

Yeah, that's basically it. And DK Jr from the arcade games grew up to be the current tie-wearing DK. I always thought that was kind of neat for whatever reason

one of my more embarrassing brain quirks is that it really annoys me when people treat current Donkey Kong and arcade Donkey Kong as the same character. I should save my energy for things that actually matter.

jeez, says a lot about your country that he touts himself as a 'liberal' there. Here, in the UK, he's always been considered as right wing tabloid journalism scum.

It's still effectively worse than being free. It's an argument on whether prison should be punishment or rehabilitation, and whether making things effectively torturous for the worst criminals is actually beneficial beyond the scope of empty revenge

having no soul is sort of a necessary factor of dealing with 90% of the jobs out there. On that note I'm considering getting in on this shitty ripoff game market

yeah, you seen that one which is just a rock with biceps? lazy

i too, come to Kotaku for this kind of news.

It's more like you're gonna eat shit anyway so you might as well try and go ahead and choose the shit you'd prefer. One's just regular old disgusting cow shit and the other's covered in insects and diseases. And then by refusing to choose you get force-fed the diseased one.

C'mon man at least own up to being nihilistic/apathetic rather than pretending that doing absolute zero is the best political plan you've got. I know the way things are are bad. Doing absolute nothing doesn't change that; it only reinforces the status quo, or paves way for more leverage towards racist fuckwits like…

not voting provides exactly the same chance putting a bunch of racists in charge of the country. Mass abstention won't change anything for us. Even voting for a no-chance party like the Greens is better than this because it could actually get them some political leverage.

it's because a depressingly overwhelming amount of gamers happen to be sheltered, misanthropic, bigot white males.

Not yet. I've been following the chilliadmystery subreddit for a while. Initially it was to see if they'd find anything, but now I'm just enjoying how much its descended into a conspiracy nut party zone. People pulling out obscure symbols and references from real conspiracies and occult stuff. Following NPCs around…

as the film says. he was the worst criminal ever.

second time i've ever kickstarted anything and the first time it wasn't something my friends did. BECAUSE OF THAT SKATEBOARD FLIP COP EXPLOSION I CANT GET OVER IT

Yeah. Agreed. It's beautiful in the sense that the design and colour choices are very nicely put together, but it just completely lacks the charming character of Metroid. Replacing the alien landscapes and monsters with mechs and tunnels that don't even match up to the creative design of a MGS game? I'm not…

ahaha, sorry Seuss. I'd be interested in your opinion on it too. I'd probably recommend you to wait until the full 5 acts are out so you aren't just sitting here infuriated over having suddenly having to stop playing a really cool thing, and resorting to typing things about it on here in order to deal :(

I just went ahead and bought Kentucky Route Zero based on the picture alone. Slightly insane, but something drew me to it instantly. Fortunately- beyond the art direction being phenomenal- I think it's extremely well written. It tells its story in a strange mannerism that's not quite settled between a book and a film,…