It feels like a slightly bigger Vita if you’re using it as a handheld, which is how I usually play it. The Vita is probably more ergonomic thanks to some of its contours, but the Switch has more surface area to wrap your hands around. My biggest knock on it is the lack of true d-pad on the left-side joycon. Some…

But social media postings are not testimonial in any sense of the word, nor are they remotely secure. When you hand in documents to the government or you give verbal testimony, you attest to their truth and completeness. No one tells the whole or real story on social media, which is the important thing here. Not only…

Are our attention spans and memories so bad that we’ve all just forgotten bout the crap the IRS pulled around the time of the 2012 election, or was everyone just OK with it because it happened under a popular Democrat President? If the tables were turned and the trump administration (using the term administration…

The IRS already targets people who favor lower taxes. The Tea Party people have been complaining about it for years.

Okay, that reply was a bit overdone. Guy just states some feedback on a thing he’s been noticing and you nail down on him hard, bit uncalled for. Guy didn’t even swear or general ‘git gud’ comments - feedback’s a part of life. You don’t have to agree with him but this was a bit overkill : )

Since I don’t really have a horse in this race, I’m going Team Mayo. Because Mayo is easier to make puns out of and Pearl > Marina.

I am loving splatoon 2 but I hate having to watch the dumb stage introductions every time I start the game. I don’t care about the two idol characters at all and it takes way more time than it should to get into game because of them.

I got the Switch and Zelda for Father’s Day... all I can say is wow. This game is awesome. I was laughing out loud when I picked up my first skull and ran away with the body chasing me.

Not exactly. You’re probably remembering this nastiness. In a nutshell, someone asked a guy who answers those sorts of questions about whether or not being all white was historically accurate, the guy gave an honest answer that it might not be, and then he got savaged by the internet because, well, internet.

The Switch is the ideal system for sports games. My gf will sit through pretty much any game, but she will constant complain if I am playing any sports game. Being able to play a full sports game on the system in handheld mode is just awesome. 2K, Madden, and FIFA on the couch while she watches whatever sounds amazing…

Don’t listen to these chuckleheads, Breath of the Wild is absolutely a “resource intensive” game, especially considering how much it has to pull off on hardware that’s markedly inferior to the hardware Horizon runs on. BotW doesn’t have a ton of complex trees everywhere and a lot of its textures are watered down, but…

A long time ago I spent a lot of time considering how great Banjo Kazooie was, and how everything along those lines from Rare (Twooie, DK64) was not. For some reason that first game made the collecting totally enjoyable and just fucking fun. What was the alchemy, the magic seasoning, the lynch pin?

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Oh, there’s positive stories all the time in the games industry. They just don’t collect as many clicks and/or don’t fit some agenda the games journo wants to tell.

One of the reasons in my OP I asked to publish more of these kinds of stories.

Be honest with me. Which would excite you more? This announcement, knowing that your favorite franchises are coming around for another try on substandard, gimmicky hardware, or if Nintendo announced today that all their first party games were going to be on PS4, Xbone, and PC?

Yes- I was just thinking of Geocities! I remember using that way back in the day, in the late ‘90s when I was in 7th and 8th grade just learning how to teach myself to code HTML and CSS. GoPlay was another service I remember using that was somewhat similar.

I also remember a site called Bolt. It had nothing to do with…

Well, I can tell you one thing that has changed. Serious students pursuing degrees in hard sciences have to study in locked rooms so that BLM people will not barge in and scream at them. And the environment on campus is like that in China in the early days of the Cultural Revolution. At any time you could find…

I was picked on a lot as a kid and it was often directed at my somewhat defiant love of GameCube. It really sucked and probably contributed to triggering the depression I came to struggle with for the years following (and now manage). And I gotta say, all the sorrow that came in response for my love of GameCube was…