It’s amazing how people will so easily submit to bowdlerization just because they don’t like a cultural trend, isn’t it?

Fuck yes, muppets. Iwata has a terrific muppet voice.

Wait, what, as a Kickstarter? That would be really odd.

Kickstarter is flipping out. The numbers are going up, going down.

Robots and dinosaurs: a winning combination.

You’re right about the eye shapes. During the TV show’s run, someone actually referred to the red-head as the one with the “cat’s eyes” or “tsundere eyes”.

Your Love Live avatar kinda makes me wish other people would sneakily follow suit when rebutting the article.

I wish Reggie had cheated or something to make for a closer match.

Perhaps Inafune pissed someone off or didn’t politick in the “right” way?

Thanks for the breakdown, including the information that we’re talking about an actual pro.

Gobots, the copyright-trolling destroyer of one of my childhood favorites, Mighty Orbots. Even now, the name makes the bile rise in my throat.

As a person who only collects cards for the artwork, I would have a hard time making a rational decision if a hard-to-pull card came out of a pack at a tourney. I’m vaguely familiar with the concept of drafting, but I’ve never heard of an either/or situation where you lose ownership of the card you don’t take.

Great effort. I would’ve preferred a mosaic of BiBi, though.

I was done the moment they showed the actual dungeon and the teleport trap. Nope. No more roguelikes for me.

For what it’s worth, Porygon was given a generous 2 evolutions, and became catchable in the wild in later games (though only in the post-game, and even getting the chance to catch him requires specific circumstances). His middle form looks like a rubber ducky, and his final form is streamlined.

It might be the eyes/facial expressions. The original game’s in-game models were like that too, with dead-eyed stares; the liveliness comes from the emoticons they spout off and the character portraits.

I’ve enjoyed the trailers so far, but Margaret in this one kinda reminds me of those animated gifs where people glue Persona heads on the characters.

I’m doing okay. I have a backlog so big I can’t figure out what order to untangle it in, and with announcements dropping almost every day, I’ll be busy in the 3rd and 4th quarter too. Plus I have one of the games on the list (Operation Abyss) on the way.

Thanks for archiving the footage. I wasn’t aware this was being played and would’ve slept through it regardless. I watched every single minute - or more accurately, listened to it, during the slower segments. That’s more footage than I can reliably dig up on Youtube.

Could be worse - they could’ve pursued a single rating that would be applicable across the entire world, lumping every country’s loopy restrictions together at the same time.