Well, I do buy a *lot* of my Steam games in the form of Humble Bundle sales. These are usually handed out in the form of steam keys. My biggest question is, do these keys count as real sales? Or as gifts?

You did not, although they certainly helped. Most fire based puzzles could be solved by shooting an arrow through a torch flame to light in mid-flight, and you could also pick up the magic item Din’s Fire from one of the fairy fountains, which could light torches in a pretty wide area around link. I haven’t tried…

Welcome back Narcissa! I’ve missed you at the last few SGDQ marathons, you always brought a positive energy to the scene that was refreshing and welcoming.

Wha...? You’d think for a device marketed on and *named for* its ability to switch modes, Nintendo would make this a hard requirement for any games launching on the platform.

I remember being turned off of MyFitnessPal when I looked into it a while back because it wanted me to subscribe to remove ads, something which I am morally opposed to doing. (I shouldn’t have to pay money for software to stop doing an annoying, privacy invading behavior; that’s backwards. I’ll gladly pay for…

A Blu-ray Disc isn’t as impressive as it used to be. They cap out at 50GB for dual layer, and 128Gb for DXL.

I recall Ocarina of Time as one of the early games that did Action Icons right. Link has all these complex interactions with the world, and rather than come up with some bizzaro control scheme, the buttons just change meaning based on where you are. This could be confusing as hell, but Nintendo got the interaction…

I’ve identified a bug in Kinja: I only seem to be able to star you once. That won’t do.

As an owner of a penis, I can confirm that penis physics will likely be forever quite difficult to get right. A physics simulation in a game must assume a certain level of stiffness / rigidity for something to be able to move, and it looks like Conan here is going for the physics of a fully flacid penis with very…

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.

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.

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.