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If you like THAT then you should Google "Caliente Big Booty mod".

Darn. Here I was thinking that I could buy this Princess Peach statue and it would serve as both eye candy AND retirement investment . . .

You're not alone. I'm always frankly terrified whenever I hear about the amount of time some people take playing RPGs of any kind. I think it might be that my own feeling is that if I win a game, I win a game: If I haven't collected every rare drop treasure and completed every side quest, I don't sweat it. Other folks…

I'm surprised that the existence of consoles don't act as more of a price cap on PC graphics cards than they do. Like, how is it possible to charge more than, say, $300-400 for a graphics card when, for that price, you could just buy a 360 or PS3 and play the same game.

You don't think Hell Girl?

Is the consensus that most high-end, "art" toys and statues manufactured on a limited basis will generally increase in value over time?

Yes, but then that's exactly what you and 119% of all other people WOULD say, isn't it?

Don't you know that 80% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

They've pretty definitively confirmed it for both Wii and WiiU, to the point of even saying that players on either system will be interacting in the same world. Which makes sense: The WiiU (and Nintendo more broadly) aren't as focused on graphics improvements (they've made it a pretty explicit goal NOT to try and…

Firsties.

Sorry, misspoke/misunderstood.

Really? I mean, we just got—by sheer volume of shouting—an English-language version of Xenoblade and Last Story. AND we now have English-language versions of pretty much all other DQ remakes (admittedly on platforms we weren't expecting; like DS instead of PS2).

Yes, but they've confirmed it for BOTH Wii and WiiU.

Tuesday: I bought a Wii

Right on. Plus, the Japanese tend to have a 'thing' about living directly *on* mountains. It's . . . . well it's not a taboo, per se. It just sort of feels inappropriate to them. Hence, you have these pristine, forested, totally uninhabited mountains surrounded by super-dense urbanized lowland.

I prefer to do lines of ginseng, myself.

I'll let this photo of an ancient pine-y hillside in the Kitayama Mountains speak for me.

No, don't second-guess Japan: You should go. It's just Akihabara—it's been *hugely* oversold as a sightseeing destination.

I will not buy this game UNLESS it offends Christians.