But neither of them are purple dinosaurs, so no sale.

“Nobody turns down a great steak because other people make steaks” is going to be my go-to response whenever someone complains that something isn’t original. I’ve been thinking about the originality problem for years but I was never able to articulate my views as well as you did in this article. Thanks a lot!

I dunno, he’s got a bigass mustache, could stand to lose a few pounds, and really loves mushrooms. Stick a cap on the guy and they’re practically twins.

Suck it, Blue!

thankfully just a thing in Ruby and Sapphire.

Now THAT is what I call an effective use of scale.

DADLY INSTINCTS

Dad By The Sword might have the best premise I've heard all year.

TF2 confirmed MOBA. ;)

Actually works a lot better than you'd think. Wildstar had pretty much the exact same system when it launched and a week's worth of gold I got from a week's worth of daily quests and farming was typically enough for an entire month of play time.

Sounds more like a turret to me.

So very, eerily close. I guess there's no make-up magic for square jaw lines though.

...pation.

This guy's a liar my dad works at Nintendo and he told me so

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'never get involved in a land war in Asia', but only slightly less well known is this: 'never go in against an editor of Kotaku when death is on the line!' Ha ha ha!!"

"Amazonian Warriors and Civ 5: the Comparison We Had to Make"

I know what you mean with the nitpicking. I guess it's bound to happen when most of the nation's population considers the country to be the most important in the world.

Just because there are bigger problems doesn't mean that we can't fix the smaller problems which we actually have control over.