Oh, oh! This reminds me of a fantastic webcomic I read a while back, which explores a similar premise. Very well done and recommended:

Luke, I’m sitting over here bawling my eyes out. This is so beautiful. You’ve perfectly captured everything I continue to love about Nintendo and game design in general, and you’ve made me sad that I’ll never have kids of my own.

Given Microsoft’s prior experience working with hardware, I’d say it’s far more likely that a separate company produced the dial, and both Microsoft and Dell licensed the technology independently. Or maybe they’re working in collaboration; a dual launch like this suggests a competitive space for professionals, and…

The Sony line is really a shame, no? Except for a ton of great Square Enix games on the systems, there hasn’t been a ton of love. They’re beautifully designed too, and seemed like the mature, grown-up answer to the DS line. I always thought they were more popular than they actually are, because everyone at my college…

I still don’t bother to use the new “care” mechanics. They’re cute to play around with if I’m really bored, but I just use items because they’re much, much faster to apply.

The most recent I saw was Link’s Crossbow Training for Wii. That mostly worked because the controller itself was part of the console, and the “zapper” was optional, and little more than a cheap plastic case.

No, you’re quite right, but not following the solution to its conclusion. You count in this system by raising or lowering each finger, and then read off the total as the SUM of all fingers. So, when all fingers are raised, each value is added to the sum:

Right, exactly. It’s technically quite feasible to do, but no companies actually did it because stuffing an extra processor in a $30 cartridge just didn’t make economic sense at the time.

I find it amazing that to make this work at all, he had to rig up a custom cartridge with an *entire extra processor* that’s actually doing the graphics. Even with that, the Gameboy can’t do bitmap graphics, so he still has to translate those graphics into tiles and work with the limitations of its weird palette…

The game plays and feels like a love letter to the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory series of games. I really enjoyed those games, so I find myself coming back to Stardew Valley off and on to play through another month or so.

A correction is in order: *all* of these baby Pokemon, including Togepi, are 2nd generation Pokemon, introduced with Gold and Silver in the games. The phrasing in the article suggests that Togepi is a first generation ‘mon, which is not true. (At least, as far as the games are concerned, I don’t know where the 2nd…

I’ve been overwhelmed by the SOS mechanic on more than one occasion. But I still don’t think this game holds a candle to Goldenrod City’s gym leader, and her ridiculously overpowered (at that point in the game) Miltank. I wiped to her Rollout just a ridiculous number of times casually.

You know, I’m really tired of being attacked for being a white male. I’m sorry I was born that way. I really can’t help it.

There very likely are. Done properly, the encryption type malware is just as cryptographically secure as it claims to be. But there are some simpler variants of the malware floating around that either a static key or pull from a pool of possible keys, rather than generating a new one on the fly. In these instances,…

I’m appy to hear that Japanese audio is included in the game, even if the English subtitles are more localized than I might like. That’s awesome, I’ll definitely be picking this game up sometime this month.

I can respect that though. Their primary criticism wasn’t so much that the game released with not enough content to justify the price point, it was that their development team had a *bad* habit of showing off features that weren’t fully baked, and didn’t make it into the final game.

I think it’s at the point where the run can’t be performed by a human being using official controllers. If it meets that criteria, it’s a run. But lots of people disagree, and so there are a ton of different categories, including ones that ban glitches entirely, or require the player to correct 100% of the items.

They already have this. Rather than going to pick it up, you order it (send them your model, and they’ll print you a thing) and it’s delivered, like Amazon for 3D prints.

I think the bigger issue is that along the path of development, many assets, including lines of dialog, get cut from the game, but never actually removed from the source files. (Text isn’t very big.) 

I think you misspelled 9, but I’ll forgive you.