(*Not because it would result in some sort of payout bonus or anything, but because pride, you know? Maybe it's just me, but I look at a 90 game with a much different sense of that game's quality than when I look at an 89 game.)

Is this about the Vita article from last week as well? lol Don't worry, everyone has forgotten about that. . .

LOL again. Seriously, what the hell? 1) The -oid suffix is Greek, and refers to "resemblance." Usually used with the connotation that it is imperfect. Which is true. A perfect fact would be to mention that Chaucer's General Prologue uses the word "beshitted," and used "shitted" in some of the versions of the Miller's…

LOL. Less or fewer doesn't bother me. Nor does shitted or shat. I just think it is an interesting thing to point out, like a factoid. Because most people do not understand that the very concept of the cuss word is itself a product of social forces, not linguistic forces —in as much as we can delineate between the two.…

BTW, just for anyone who is interested, it is actually "shitted" for the past tense. Usually it is assumed that since "spit" is "spat" then this is a property of of the "at" formation at the end of the word, but it is not. "Spit" is an irregular verb, thus its tense structures should not be used for other words…

You are misunderstanding me. Yeah, our sense of cultural histories is obviously skewed all over the world, but ninja are a special case, much like that of St. Patrick, where the real history behind them is actually quite a bit more interesting than the legends and myths we have build up around them. Wild West Cowboys…

It is always hilarious to see this kind of thing, because it goes to show just how much everyone -even the Japanese- misunderstand the Ninja. For example: the black pajamas were not even invented until after the Meiji Revolution. A were many common myths about the ninja. At that time the country was rapidly…

Yes. Everyone obviously has the right to interpret works of art as they see fit. And indeed, Awakening and Majora are true works of art. I would at least argue that how you interpret Awakening comes down to how you interpret the concept of life itself, and this is a heavily philosophical point. If everything does…

As far as being melancholy and vaguely distressing, Link's Awakening I think near the end matches Majora's Mask. Awakening is about growing up, and what one must leave behind, even though one may love those things dearly. Those two are the outlier Zelda titles that really do prove my long-standing thesis that often…

I want to thank you guys for not running with this story until after you had confirmed it was fake. That shows some integrity that is much-needed in game journalism.

3 years. Unless I am grossly mistaken, it is not 2017, and the Vita did not come out until 2012.

Yen Woo Ping even mentioned in interviews that he barely did any choreography for Kill Bill, as Tarantino had already done most of the work by the time he arrived on the production. That certainly explains why the scenes are so bad in the film, despite Yen's general brilliance. I imagine that most of what he did…

I'm sorry, but the inclusion of anything by that hack Quentin Tarantino just hobbles the rest of the list. Unlike many of the other people on the list, Tarantino is awful, without any sense of philosophy or knowledge about the martial arts. Even Yen Woo Ping, supposedly the choreographer of that scene, has no presence…

Obviously not. Have you taken a look at Nintendo's financials recently? Despite all the horrible decisions that they have made, and despite of the WiiU being largely unpopular, they are still making money. Iwata, for all his many faults, is a financial wizard of some sort, and squeezes profits out of thin air.

Don't…

Come to think of it, you are right. I may have seen this same thing before under different circumstances. It must be marketing departments, they are the only ones who are capable of something this absurd.

All of the critiques I have for this policy are concisely stated in a metaphor published alongside that policy. . . I have nothing else to say. It's poetic, when you think about it.

Yes. That is assuming they do absolutely nothing for the next 20 years or so. Then, they will finally run out of money and be doomed!

Please tell me this is some kind of parody. . . Those gears lock into one another and cannot move. That is how gears work. . . An entire company of engineers should know that. I just. . . you can't make this up, it parodies itself.

I'm not entirely certain this is "weird." Perhaps "uncanny" or "clever" is a better term, but I've had these featured in the is YouTube vid for awhile, and they still fascinate me every time I play with them:

It is one thing to be a racist, it is another to actively fight racial equality. Even though it may not detract from the work, my point is that the work is still awful. Unlike Poe, his hero, who actually freed a slave in his lifetime, Lovecraft actively sabotaged racial equality with his work.

Questionable politics of…