While it’s cool they got the license rights to mention DBZ and Street Fighter moves by name, what really surprised me were the deeper cuts, like Virtua Fighter and 3x3 Eyes

I don’t know who that is, but she sounds hideous

A good rule of thumb for Lego sets has generally been 10 cents per piece (or at least it used to - I’m seeing a lot of sets come in at under 10 cents a piece lately). At 2064 pieces, its actually a good deal.

Speaking of loanwords, I kinda like ‘skosh’ - I always assumed it was Yiddish (just sounds Yiddish to me), but it’s actually derived from the Japanese ‘sukoshi’ - few or little

Switch Online’s retro game catalog is very disappointing. They got these consoles working on Wii, Wii U, even 3DS, while Switch is still stuck with NES and SNES.

Not that this is anything new, but Nintendo is sitting on money by not bundling Zero Mission, Samus Returns, Super Metroid, and Fusion and selling it on Switch

I would say no. There was definitely a curve there where enemies were super spongy, but you eventually get through it. It amazes me how quickly I can tear thru some of the commissions now

It’s been ages since I’ve played Gens 4 or 5, but I guess kind of personal preference? I’m sure there were people annoyed that the Pokedex was all new, and complaints about how so many were obvious replacements for Pokemon that already existed but just weren’t being used.

My take, having been playing since Pokemon first came to the US: Since around Gen 5, I have started to see the cracks form - cut features, big towns with not much to actually do, locations that look like a cool place we will get to explore but is actually just a background detail, less impressive world maps (I…

You just always have to keep in mind Abraham Lincoln’s famous words:

Not the takeaway I was supposed to get, but the name of the guy rang some bells so I did some Googling.  In Gen 1, Pokemon trainers only had class titles and no names.  This changed in Gen 2, and sure enough, of the 15 Bird Keepers in Gen 2, one is named Toby.

Hmmm. Maybe its a problem when you’re so deep into the rabbit hole that you don’t even think about Spike being a deep cut?

You killed me with those captions, especially on the catapult.

A much better design for Dyna Man, but he’s barely recognizable here. He basically kept the color palette, black face (not that kind of black face), and metal studs above the face. (3rd pic is fan art, but is a pretty faithful imagining of the sprite in classic Mega Man art style)

Tracking down an unreleased video game?  That’s so Raven

The problem is how they go about censoring it. As the last picture shows, it is on the back (and sleeves) of their gang jackets. Any scenes where the gang is all together turns into a mess of lens flares, zoom ins, and still shots to make sure no manji are seen. This wasn’t too noticeable until episode 4, which was an…

Whoosh

You missed the hilariously bad looking cover image. Looks like a RPG on the PS2:

My biggest gripe with my current Switch is the joystick isn’t great in certain situations - When using a keyboard I will often find it going up/down a row when I am just trying to go left/right, and in Shovel Knight I sometimes messed up cause it read a slight up/down while moving horizontally and changed what I was…