I feel kind of weird explaining this then, but in the adult industry, a “daddy” is someone significantly older than you that you find sexually attractive. (There are many, many variances on its usage, but that’s the common thread.)

I was so excited to buy this game. Then halfway through the article, you finally dropped that it’s a Vita title. Now I’m sad that I can’t buy it.

Hey, I thought Wreck It Ralph was pretty okay. Granted it was based on a fictional franchise, but really, when the movie gets to make up some of the rules as it goes along, it makes for better storytelling I think.

I’m OK with this. I’d much rather have a polished game delayed than an unfinished game rushed out the door.

Here’s the thing though: DRM in games is typically not that difficult to break. If it were, pirated games wouldn’t be floating around on every torrent site in existence.

I’m finally playing through Skyward Sword, and determined to enjoy it despite Fi. Good lord, is it heavy handed with the tutorials though. I hope it lightens up once I’ve gone through a dungeon or two.

I used to find that to be the case, but their new systems *really* seem to be helping to curb that. I still run into the occasional jerk, and everyone’s ego gets the better of them from time to time, but it’s nothing like it was a couple of years ago. If I play well and work with my teammates, I find the vast majority…

Very little. However, League’s matchmaking system requires him to be level 30 on a given account before he’ll be able to play games with other high level players, so his ability to troll the vast majority of the community requires him to invest a considerable amount of time leveling an account without getting it…

The bigger challenge for Nintendo right now I think is tablets. The 3DS is still king of the playground largely because of the Pokemon series, but were that not the case, I think tablets would make a very strong case against their primary product line. It’s hard to beat the business model of “buy the tablet once for…

In 2010, there were 3,999,386 babies born in the United States alone. That works out to roughly 10,900 babies born per day. Then you add up all the other countries.

I mean, there are plenty of folks in *real life* who are irritated with what gender they are, or what race they were born as, or how their body parts are shaped. I think it’s great to see a game stick to its guns in exploring that idea in an interactive medium. It’s a way, if limited in scope and a bit silly, to step…

I was about to say, I don’t remember quicktime events until FF8, and even those were limited. (Squall’s gunblade being the obvious example, but there was also Zell’s limit break, which was a combo-based minigame.)

The best way to never get a speeding ticket is to simply not speed. Seriously. At some point early in my driving career, I realized that I lost more time to red lights than I ever did to an extra MPH or five on the freeway. It *feels* like you’re going a lot faster because you’re passing other cars, but the actual…

Honest question: I never install antivirus software on my linux installs because it feels largely unnecessary. Say I were going to set up a linux install for a relative who wasn’t very tech savvy though. What antivirus solution would you recommend? (I mean, aside from the obvious things like setting them up without…

Personally, I think paid mods is a wonderful idea if it’s done right. Skyrim is the biggest example of how *not* to implement things. In any case, the hard line engraved into the concrete with a wand of fire is this: the content in the mod MUST be entirely original, or properly licensed (ie, permission obtained in…

I’d be perfectly OK for this, if it wasn’t for the existence of Earthbound, a game published by Nintendo, with a *major character* (one of the only 4 party members in the game) named “Poo” by default, and canonized as “Poo” in all of his cameo appearances across the Smash Bros. series. Nintendo clearly should take no…

I find that modern games which create their *own* limitations in visual style tend to feel the most creative to me. Take Little Big Planet with its playful sock puppet characters, or Minecraft with its intentionally low-resolution textures and simplistic models. Introducing constraints helps an artist to be creative…

FFX was one of my favorite takes on the action bar concept for all the right reasons, and it did so by eliminating the “action” part entirely. I don’t think any other game in the series made it quite so obvious how effective a simple Haste spell really was; it very much turns the tides of battle in your favor. (Or out…

The next best thing is to download the ISO (or use the media creation tool to make a flash drive) and use that, instead of relying on Windows Update’s version. For whatever reason, we seem to have the most trouble with the downloader, but doing an in-place upgrade using the latest disc rarely has the same problems. (I…

I was not aware of the wizard thing! That is very cool; I went for the super spiky haircut at start, and now I’m regretting it a year later.