I figured she’s 8 feet tall because the moment I saw her, I felt that she’s based on the Japanese urban legend Hachishakusama (literally "8 Feet Tall"), who is about a tall woman dressed in a white dress with a wide brimmed hat, who stalks and abducts children to kill.

Furthermore, long-term, nobody ever beats the market. You can beat the house in the short term and have a lucky run, just like any casino, but in the end, the entire market economy is more efficient and more effective than any individual or even sizeable group unless they’re a criminal enterprise, and even they…

you made your first mistake, worth has nothing to do with anything anymore on wallstreet. Its all momentum and liquidity trading. This stuff has little to nothing to do with price discovery anymore.

As the article said, this has almost nothing to do with the company. It’s all about the short squeeze feeding the stock price. GameStop has been closing hundreds of stores per quarter for over a year and has a fair amount to debt. They did well for the most recent quarter thanks to new consoles, but are expected to…

...and how crazy it is to expect to live off retirement savings invested in this casino.

Once again illustrating how completely meaningless “Wallstreet” and “Stockmarket” measurements are.

You know what? I always wondered WHY the Snu-Snu Amazons from Futurama grabbed my attention so endearingly as a 13 year old hormone monster.

Koji Kondo’s parents had a hand in Tingle’s design, too!

A man who is no doubt haunted by terrible nightmares of grown men in spandex floating through the sky. Maybe he’ll go partner up with Junji Ito and produce the most horrifying story ever told.

Don’t worry, Tingle has never been too far, even if you don’t see him...

For all that power, the phone is still brought to its knees by Kotaku’s ads.

The industry may have forgotten about analogue face buttons, but only Nintendo seems to have given up on analogue triggers. XBox One and PS4 have them, for example, and they make.a.world of difference to racing games.

Which is a shame because the deep analog triggers for the GC felt great. Even a game like Sonic R (on the Sonic Gems Collection) was improved from "so bad" to "it's still bad but at least it's controllable" by taking advantage of them with some really good sweet-spot drifting mechanics.

Super Mario All Stars:

It’s going to be $90 in two years. Could be a one print run like Metroid Trilogy. 

“Nobody is buying this in Japan.”

“The S doesn’t look like a problem, but the X seems so big that it will be hard to find a place near the TV to put it.” Shh. No one tell him about PS5. He'll faint. 

I guess these count as Japanese “gamers”? A lot of these guys sound just as stupid as western “gamers” do. Finding some arbitrary reason to not be interested in an Xbox console just means you’re an asshole.

If you look there at the side of the PS4, you’ll understand why I feel like consoles really should be looking more like mini PCs than they do. I’m not a Microsoft guy, but goddamn if this big ass pillar isn’t a breath of fresh air after 15 years of losing consoles to cooling issues.

I don't know why this feels like the best piece of news today but I'm living for it. Good on them PS3 MGS players.