I understand the need for security, but I hope this doesn't lead to a pattern of Google locking down it's stuff in an Apple-like fashion. I hope they don't do the same thing with Android, I will be pretty annoyed if they block side-loading apps there.

It is a little silly, but they're mixing the styles of Zelda and the Dynasty Warriors games, so I'm not surprised. Shia is one of the new characters though, right? At least they didn't do that with Impa's character, that would just look ridiculous.

Move the decimal point. That's 10%, then to get your tip just multiply by 1.5 for 15%, multiply by 2 for 20%, or multiply by 2.5 for 25%, etc. and bam you're done. Rounding as you do this math is okay, if 20% is $4.02 and you leave $4, that's fine. This is faster than getting out your phone and opening an app.…

crap, I guess I gotta go buy a Wii U...

Autopay is wonderful. Rather than waiting until the due date, I have it pay the full balance immediately when the bill arrives, right when the period ends. This also means that since it's going to pay automatically and right away, it makes sure I never spend money I don't have (though if there was an emergency and I…

Normally, there are two choices for fictional stories. They can be realistic, and the viewers get to think "wow, this could really happen!" or it can be fantasy, the viewers know it's utterly impossible but then the story can include magic and dragons. The trapped in a video game setting bridges this gap. Inside the…

You can. From any of the inbox tabs, you swipe to archive, and from the "all mail" view you swipe to delete.

Well obviously not literally never, but if you do proper backups and whatnot, then pretty close. And all those problems are much worse for physical media than digital. Physical media (generally) has a finite quantity that will slowly decrease over time as various people lose them, whereas digital media can easily be…

Hmm.... I'm not sure if you can do something like that with Steam or Origin games. And of course doing so on a console like you suggested is incredibly limited, if it's even possible at all. In theory, digital has the advantage of making your own backups and everything, in practice is doesn't always, because of that…

All valid points, you're right that if something happens to the digital media you may not be able to redownload it, but that works the other way around too. If something happens to the physical media, you can't just get a free replacement of that either. You had to get your 3DS fixed, which resulted in you losing a…

Huh, I got that Four Swords thing on the 3DS a few months ago, and I knew that it was only in the store temporarily but I assumed that anyone who had already purchased it could re-download it later. That's a design flaw in Nintendo's e-shop then. I have some things on my Android phone that are no longer in the Google…

Hence why I mentioned the ability to make your own backups of digital purchases, which then gives you complete control of it and you don't have to trust the company to still be there to re-download the software later.

This is indeed the main risk with things like that. Not all digital purchases are tied to an account like that, but many are. Though I know that on my 360 and on Steam it's possible to play games while offline, so theoretically that would still work even if the service itself was shut down, as long as you already had…

Morally, it's certainly okay to make backups for yourself like that. Legally it's a bit of a grey area, and depends on what kind of media we're talking about. For example, technically it's illegal to rip a DVD or any purpose, because you're "circumventing DRM". However, obviously no reasonable person would say it's…

Hence why I mentioned that you can also make your own backups of digital purchases. I bought a couple games from Direct2Drive, which was bought out by Gamefly and doesn't really exist anymore. But I still have the game installed on my computer, as well as the install files on my computer, and a copy of the install…

I never really understood the argument that physical media is more permanent. Physical media generally can't be copied (at least not easily and legally). Digital media, on the other hand, can usually be easily re-downloaded from wherever you purchased it, and you can make your own backups in as many places as you…

I find it funny that a lot of people do attack Android for being too complicated and difficult to learn for new users, but then when you mention an app that simplify's it, you get attacked for calling Android complicated. The Internet is such a wonderful, loving, friendly place sometimes :D

I did end up buying one, just arrived the other day. I love it already, it's amazing. I can't imagine why anyone would ever use one of those awful rubber ones when something like this exists.

They did? I can't find it on the Google Play Store (I have Android), is it iOS only or something?

Okay, but the fact that the console was out for months before they could even tell us what it was for, just proves that there are cases where it doesn't need to be on. That explains why it exist, but it still doesn't justify requiring it to always be on.