most players who actually play the game long enough to enjoy the sum of its content

Dr. Mario's specials? Plural? Aside from mega-vitamins, I don't think they were that different. At least not in Melee.

Hey, I agree with you entirely that Notch got a great deal. No argument there. To be fair though, he already had the kind of money one needs to be able to do pretty much whatever you want.

I think by millions he means the amount of money that Minecraft was bringing in to Mojang across all platforms + merchandising, not including the sale of the company.

That's what I understood the statement to literally mean, but double negation across multiple sentences with added context isn't just confusing to readers, it's also confusing to writers... which is what left me wondering if his words matched his intent.

"Why'd Microsoft pay so much for Minecraft? It's a fad past its prime."
TELEPORT TO: 1999
"Pokemon's a fad that's past its prime"

That's a weirdly worded statement that leaves me wondering if your intent matches what you said. Would you or wouldn't you sell an IP that made you millions over several years for 2.5 billion dollars?

'me and my mate still use items minus final smashes' isn't exactly the most obvious justification for keeping final smashes in the game :P

Release testing technically. I don't really see that as a factor though.

It really makes you wonder why they didn't go for a simultaneous worldwide release... or at least US+JP at the same time. I mean, what did they really gain from releasing three weeks earlier in Japan?

Ness essentially got Lucario's old Final Smash.

Honestly I feel like final smashes should have been a one time thing. On one hand, we continue to have fairly lazy looking clones (Black Pit being among the more egregious of them) including long standing problems for the series like Ganondorf still being slow Captain Falcon. At the same time, most players who…

In which case Minecraft modders will likely just keep doing what they've been doing... modding older versions of Minecraft than what's current.

The founders: Notch, Carl, and Jakob are leaving. We don't know what they're planning. It won't be Minecraft-related but it will probably be cool.

I don't really think they are that worried about the paltry number of PC gamers who aren't using PCs. They'll probably keep the various mobile ports going, but I doubt they'll go with Java for Minecraft 2 and I doubt they'll pursue Macintosh and Linux ports when they do decide not to go with Java.

That is a little more expensive than I thought it would be :/

I'm aware that it's based purely on velocity and not on force, but that doesn't change that the most natural way to do those motions is to slam the controller fairly hard so that there is an audible clacking sound when you hit the edge of the controller's restricting bracket. Trying to play unnaturally in order to…

Not necessary he says... It's pretty necessary if you want to play well. Plus it allows you to put less strain on your controller.

During my stream of Smash Bros. yesterday, I was playing on my original 3DS. And while it was outputting to my TV, there was just enough video lag that I was forced to use my 3DS' tiny, tiny screen to play instead. Did I mention that it's tiny?

You use the circle pads for street fighter?