That's too bad. The pin color coding is becoming more prevalent but it'll probably never be universal since color coding is always going to be slightly more expensive than not.

On a happier note there are some advancements to be thankful for. I recall a time when these gigantic idiot-proofing plastic rectangles weren't there and it was a million times easier to screw up a cable connection and fry something. In the past I once offset a power connector by 2 pins and made a nice puff of smoke…

And yet…there are always a couple of games, you know? The open-world game that still hitches every time you drive a car, even when you lower the graphics settings to medium. The city-building game that would be so lovely at 2650x1600 resolution, but which can't seem to hit 60fps even at 1080p. The post-apocalyptic…

At least the boards have color coding now.

Go ahead. Try to log in. I dare you.

Plex is one of the best ways to stream media around your house, and the Android and iOS clients are both 60% off today.

Pretty much agree with this sentiment - although I wasn't really disappointed by it, more just annoyed somewhat - it is a weakness of the game. The road to success is generally pretty narrow, despite there being a bunch of skills you can take lessons in only a certain small set of skills enable victory and others…

I picked this up last holiday season when it was 50% off. It's a fun little gem, especially the first few playthroughs. The art and Elodie's various costumes are well done, the music is decent (the main piano theme will stick in your brain), and the general story is fun. Things come off the rails somewhat though…

World of Warcraft. A game long past its prime. Populated by a set of players who are 'hardened' in a sense — although hardened is the wrong word. What is the right word?

Steps 9-16, repeat the above but with Game Genie attached.

Mah bad. If spell check accepts it that's as much effort as I put in =P

If any of the 2014 US group G matches were on ABC I never saw any listings. Everything I saw said ESPN. The knockout game with Belgium was also ESPN.

Want to make soccer more appealing? More of the major games have to be on broadcast television and not behind the ESPN/dish/cable pay wall. If I recall correctly none of the US World Cup games were on broadcast TV, and while we did get to see Brazil v. Chile and Columbia v. Uruguay on ABC, it's not enough. Big…

Maud Pie approves.

In case Breaking Bad didn't already teach you, smurfs/smurfing also refers to people who individually purchase pseudoephedrine-containing over the counter drugs (up to the monthly limit permitted by law) and then pool their purchases together for purposes of making batches of methamphetamine.

F. I bought Muramasa: Rebirth on one of the earlier sales. I should just not buy anything ever and wait for it to come to PS+.

DRM certainly is a pain, but I still have nightmares about configuring autoexec.bat settings for the dreaded HIMEM.SYS. PCs were an untamed wilderness back then.

Anyone think we'll see a discount on Starbound?

That's a lot of money, no doubt. But it comes out to roughly $68 per game, which is surprisingly (or depressingly) close to the going rate for most console and PC games coming out these days.

Final smash: Mort Fun Time!