Wait, I thought Iwata was a game programmer turned businessman, not a game designer.

Nintendo Direct is going to be a lot sadder without him. His humor, his passion. Its all going to be missed.

I’ll never understand stuff like this. Why diminish your name recognition? It’s never worked, ever, for a company. remember when Pizza Hut decided to be called “The Hut? How did that work out?

Cosmonauts. They pretend to be cosmonauts.

I have a tiger rescue center nearby, and you can do a tour in the twilight during the summer months, and the tigers and other big cats are pretty active. Nothing quite gets the hairs on the back of your neck up like realizing that the tiger is watching you. And only you.

Holy goddamn shit. It's easy to look at lions and not fear them, we're mostly so disconnected and at a safe distance. When most of our images are of them at rest, lounging about, like a feline Buddah, it's easy to forget how utterly fearsome they are. But this image, it's spectacular. That's a creature to be feared…

I think you're supposed your hands up, act timid and say "I am not resisting arrest."

My mom believes in ghosts.

Recently attended a lecture put on by the Field Museum as part of their Vikings exhibit ( http://www.fieldmuseum.org/discover/on-ex… ) and the speaker was an archaeologist working in Iceland. He said there is an almost exact correlation between a present-day Icelandic family's property-holdings (and everything…

Noctis' companions are obviously fine.

Holy. Shit.
Even the terrain gets wrecked. Please tell me Bahamut is in this so I can blow city-sized holes into the ground

The internet has replaced my mirror. I go on AIM every day and call myself a fatty-pig-fatty loser that no one will love... except my mom. My mom is awesome.

Reading this gave me chills