It's also a reward for playing well. It's hard to get a fire flower, but if you do it makes the level a lot easier.

I think it comes more from the lack of saves (yes, there's a trick that lets you start from the world died on, but unless you read about it somewhere or someone tells you, there's no way you'd know it). I never found the game particularly *hard* as a kid, but having to start everything over once you'd died made it…

My little cousin is an eight-year-old. Ever since he was four, Mario was his hero. He would tell me about Mario's adventures to the top of the big mountain where he fought the bomb-king (64) and his adventures in space (Galaxy). But his favorite games? The New Super Mario Bros. series. I say all that, because it…

Yeah Mean Girls is definitely my generation's Breakfast Club. And it's not even terribly similar to Breakfast Club—it's just a genius comedy that captures what high school actually feels like.

Modern movies that actually capture what high school feels like:
Mean Girls (genuinely one of my favorite movies of all time, and endlessly quotable), Superbad, Napoleon Dynomite (as someone who grew up in Ohio, that movie felt painfully accurate at times), Scott Pilgrim and uh…that's it, I guess? I can't think of…

I have a feeling it's going to be pretty much the same show, though with less Stephen Colbert "the character." His sense of humor out of character is not very different than when he's in it, and he's said he's not doing a monologue.

Cool

But watch yourself, counselor.

I came here to post the same thing. Damn. They've been rumored for the past several Bond movies—I think they even said Down is the New Up was going to be a Bond theme. Now, that song isn't particularly good (the live version was AMAZING and I think they kinda botched it in the studio) but still—they deserve a Bond…

Lauren Lapkus' show is ridiculously inconsistent, but this past week's episode, Teacher's Lounge, is one of the funniest podcasts I've ever heard. I've listened to it like 4 times and it just gets better.

I would consider this a Very Fine Development.

Who does that make Dreamworks?

I heard the confidentiality agreement for the movie 7 Pounds weighed as much as a kidney.

Hey, uh…fuck you. The Goonies is a fun movie. FUN, DAMMIT.

The best thing about Smash 4 is how important off-stage play is (what with ledge swapping and all) so JP is PERFECT for that. For characters with bad recoveries, you can KO at super low percents just by getting them way off the stage.

Totes. You don't need to know much before jumping in, though I would recommend Ground Zeroes first because
A) it's technically the first act of MGSV
B) It's fun

And yet, when I played that opening sequence, I was like "This is the most terrifying thing I've ever played." I spent a lot of time in hospitals as a kid, so that was straight out of my nightmares.

Yeah, they haven't topped Melee's aesthetic/menu screens. There's something about that whole era of Gamecube games that's a little darker/dream-like, despite them being technically bright, colorful games.

I bought it on PS4…But I do have an Xbox One! PooperSmashBros is my screenname. Yep.

Whoa, whoa whoa. Mario's down-B is his best attack. It's great for mind games, easy KOs, spacing, recovery. It sucked in Brawl, but I'm a Mario-main in Smash 4 and I use it a lot. Best is when you FLUDD somebody and then forward air for the spike. Greater satisfaction does not exist.