Rulings are law. The difference between "interpreting" and "making" the law is a fine distinction, and regardless courts DO make law. Courts don't make as much of it anymore, but we do have a common-law system where judges can make law. Areas of law like torts, contracts, and property are mostly common law, and…

Then what is the essential element, and why don't JRPGs have it? "Role-playing?" That's a term in need of a definition just as much as "role-playing game" is. I think class systems and abstract battle systems are role-playing.

Genre isn't about what is "essential" or what "matters" to a game. Nor is it about the literal meaning of the words in the acronym. You can't arbitrarily say "these aren't similar because this particular ("essential") part of the experience is different." Genre is classification, not identification of "essential"…

I'm still kind of confused—updating what?

That picture makes me think that the next-gen Xbox is going to do Kool-aid man style commercials where a giant xbox logo bursts through walls.

So what do you mean then? You mean like the N64 Expansion Pac?

But JRPGs (and other RPGs that don't fit your definition) are also derived from D&D and are also called RPGs by everyone. RPGs are descended from D&D, and that's not a reason to pick one element of D&D to define them. When someone says "RPG," they are referring to any of those games descended from D&D. Just because…

But why, aside from your opinion, is that how we define an RPG? It excludes a large number of games that we call RPGs, which you say is just a misnomer—but JRPGs are only "not true" RPGs because you made a definition that excludes them. Why do so? Why not make a definition that includes them, because we do call them…

I agree with you about Zelda, but I think you're wrong to reject JRPGs and to pin the entirety of "RPG" on player choice. Genres are, for the most part, nothing but the labels people give to things. If JRPGs are overwhelmingly labeled as RPGs (and they are), any explanation of what an RPG is that excludes them is…

I know lots of people are clamoring for this, but I don't really feel like I'd want this kind of compromise position. If you're going to go with anything less than a full-on handheld system, I'd rather you focus on the phone portion and not mess up the design of that by trying to work in analog sticks somehow.…

Yeah, it does! When I hear the word in my head I say it with a mock Italian accent, haha.

I think they were worried that the wii was shaping up to be a fad, and they wanted to make sure they didn't lose support of core gamers who would be more likely to stick around. But maybe they will anyway.

I kind of like the sound of that. Makes me think the Internet is actually a big plate of spagetti.

My rule is:

Oh, you're talking about spelling! Yeah, English spelling is messed up, really bad.

I don't think anyone really cares about whether it will help him or not. They just think it is funny because he was being annoying and the "grammar nazi" trolled him for it.

Really? I don't much know about Finnish (?), but it seems inconceivable that you couldn't write things multiple ways. How is there enough variety in the language to communicate lots of different things well? The complexity of language is what makes it cool, you can do lots of different things with it.

Actually, placing the comma outside the quotation mark is the British style (at least, according to my style guide). So if he isn't American, it might be correct. Also, not all punctuation does inside the quotation marks—commas do, but semicolons and colons go outside.

Isn't that exactly what the WiiU is?

You, sir/madam, get a heart for that.