Reminder that Nintendo doesn’t develop Pokémon and there’s only so much arm-twisting they can do to Game Freak when the games keep selling. 

This isn’t even their first Switch game, so they can’t even use the excuse of having to work with new hardware.

This isn’t surprising if you know their recent history. while everyone likes to say that Japan is a sophisticated country with smart decisions for many things (their healthcare is pretty damn impressive) a lot of Japan’s systems are completely broken and so far very little has been done to fix them (teenage suicide is…

Heh, if you know anything at all about Japanese culture, you would never utter the words “get with the times” in relation to any company there. Japanese companies in general do things their own way, and don’t give a crap about what anyone else thinks about it.

What do you expect from a corporate culture that’s so…

Exactly this. When someone has controlled you for essentially your entire life, you have to learn how to function as an adult independent of that control. She may have no idea how to do things many of us take for granted because she’s never been allowed to do them. I hope she is able to find quality people to help her…

According to the Toxic podcast on this (which is great, BTW), the reason for him to ask for this is because it would close all of the records that Britney and her lawyer need to sue the living daylights out of everyone involved. That’s why her lawyer has actually kept the conservatorship going and not filed to end it…

I’m guessing he’s afraid the state will turn him into a scapegoat for the whole conservatorship system, as this case sparked a lot of interest in the subject. For one, Jamie failed to submit any sort of required evidence that would support putting Britney in the conservatorship, like a psychiatric evaluation,…

Just one last teeny weeny $660,000 withdrawal from the piggy bank before he goes.

If I had to guess, someone or something put the fear of God into Jamie Spears and now he’s trying to flee for his life.

Maybe it was the fans, maybe it was the lawyers, most likely it was the State. Jamie doesn’t want anything to come back to bite him, so he’s trying to take the money and run. 

The check cleared.

Madonna’s career has seen plenty of embarrassing and hilarious failures, but I think her (early to mid-career) discography deserves a revisit. She cranked out some genuinely great songs and was a real cultural force. I don’t know if there would be many who compare.

The Ghost of Laurence Olivier: Or you could just try acting, my dear Gaga...

You cook a whole grain in the liquid instead, but it’ll take a little more time, and you’ll need to keep it on the flame. If you want to make things quicker, you can par-cook something like barely or farro, then finish it up in the braising liquid. 

Blood Alcohol Content? I thought Tucker Max/Maddox style interneting went out 10 years ago?

Welcome to the internet, we killed all the proof readers 20 years ago because language is meant to be free!

Artist’s impression of a fan receiving their “exclusive, one-of-a-kind content”.

When it happened was probably the development of Brawl. Apparently Nintendo’s announcement that they had started development of the game came as a complete surprise to Sakurai. He had not previously been informed that Nintendo was even interested in another Smash game, let alone that they were already working on it.  

If a doctor invited you over, would you expect them to look at your dubious moles before dinner? Of course you wouldn’t...

I think it’s a combination of things:

The true “Human Garfield” is comedian Louis Anderson. This is divine truth and there will be no further discussion.