Nothing against your point or anything, but 'thusly' is a word to be avoided, much like irregardless. Stick with 'thus'.

Does always go back further than five years? Did WC3 have a similar codename?

Considering how emotional people got about Nintendo's 'revolution' long before anything was known about it other than that it looked like a tiny box, I wouldn't be so sure.

That's not true. We knew it was an MMO project developed by Blizzard. That alone is enough to get some people hyped, especially when development had been going on with it for years. Mix that with the kind of rampant speculation that can only be created in the vast echo-chambers of the Internet and boom, instant hype.

Stick with what works.

Yeah, I mean... after finishing Pokemon X I immediately wanted to buy a poodle, groom it to have elaborate hearts and hair-dye and shit on its coat, and then force it to fight various alligators, bears, cats, and other creatures purely for my profit and amusement.

While true, I wasn't talking about Sims 3 plus all expansions, I was talking about vanilla Sims 3.

Fortunately for most games on the 3DS the C-stick isn't something that will see constant use, especially considering that most 3DSs don't even have one.

And then you can do what some 'enthusiasts' I've heard on the subject of ram disks and put your page file on it!

Heh, I know, I was just being snarky about the shit people put in their hair.

D.Lo rightly notes that the stuff is very dangerous and that gloves should be worn.

Perhaps, but this was also done in the DS and 3DS NSMB games in spite of them not having same screen multiplayer. Also that seems like a pretty natural application of the Wii U gamepad to me. I suppose that leaves one game unaccounted for.

Suddenly Kermit and Miss Piggy's relationship seems weird.

It's not like it's just uproariously funny chum.

Not even long car rides through windy hills? Boats at sea? A ride on a vomit comet?

Valkyrie Profile. Suikoden. Vagrant Story. Tactics Ogre. And so on and so forth.

The next SMB game needs to figure out how to combine the best elements of SMW with the best elements of SMB3.

You accidentally left out the 'SMB3 is' part off of the beginning of your sentence.

Unfortunately, the speed running scene for SMW is forever spoiled by that one tool assisted glitch run which revealed you can just reprogram the game on the fly to send you straight to the ending from level 2 (which contrary to its name can be played as the first level).

That's not ironic, it's just an unfair criticism.