We had a pizza chain in my neck of the woods, Mr Gatti’s. They had a head to head setup of Cruisin USA and later Cruisin World. The World theme song is burned into my brain to this day. I dunno what the N64 version was like, but pumping the gas pedal to nonsensically turn into a two wheel-ed tilt felt so goddamn good…

Cruisin’ is indeed some dumb shit but it’s the dumb shit I grew up on. As they ran down the list of “tricks” you can do, I can still feel the muscle memory and smell the cheap pizza and semi-toxic plastic prizes of the arcade room. My MUGEN setup still has the Cruisin’ World Stage/Car Select music as the fighter…

I actually find that most anime “styles” work better on the comic page than they do in animation. There are some adaptations and original anime that take advantage of the of the animation medium, but lots of shows tend to use their manga source material as a dogmatic storyboard and suffer for it as a result. One Punch…

It’s not the only advice you need, though. It’s a core tenet, to be sure, but without instruction or guidance you’re rolling the dice as to whether all the time you spend practicing is in fact GOOD practice. Practice that is focused on correcting bad habits and enriching your understanding of what the world looks like…

Don’t even with the Prequels. The only reason ANYONE should let go of their hatred of the Prequels is the blessed fact that now that other Star Wars movies are happening, there’s literally no reason to ever watch or think about them ever again. Even if TFA is a bad movie, it’s at least a bad movie that was competently…

I’m not a big fan of the shtick either, but his prequel trilogy reviews are almost universally considered legendary and totally worth your time if you can swallow the hammy acting and uncomfortable jokes.

This makes sense when you keep in mind that Dragon Ball is literally made for 5-10 year old boys. Of course their star protagonist has never kissed a girl. You can’t save the universe 10 times over AND deal with cooties at the same time.

Actually, are we SUPER SURE that this isn’t all viral marketing for the “It” reboot?

I honestly don’t know how you would make Tribes relevant today. With multiplayer shooters its either ubiquity or ghost towns, and I just don’t see a 64 player, team based, high-precision, mouse and keyboard exclusive game setting the world on fire in the post-Overwatch era. You could attract the Tribes fans,…

Ascend was a VERY good game. I think its problem was that it wasn’t quite hardcore enough for Tribes diehards, but it still had a crazy enough difficulty ramp to discourage the mainstream crowd you need to make a F2P multiplayer game really thrive. Torn between two worlds, it just sort of died on the vine. A damn…

It’s been a long time since I’ve followed anything MLP related (season 2 i think?) but I’ve never stopped being impressed by how smart character design and world building by a team that genuinely cares managed to rehabilitate the fuck out of a franchise that anyone would’ve assumed to be dead in the water. Faust’s…

Can’t we have any TV articles where commenters do not act as if the subject matter was the only thing available on television? Like, just one, maybe?

This is less about “protecting” other streamers and Twitch wanting to mitigate a potential trend that could affect future advertising deals. If a significant portion of the top streamers give the appearance that the object of the stream is to titillate rather than simply entertain, certain advertisers will want to…

I’m too squicked out by roaches to feel too bad about them, but I do have a weird nostalgic fondness for fire ants. They were the main species of ant I saw growing up and I totally got bit up making countless mini ant farms with them inside mason jars and the classic green plastic farms.

It’s more common for “moot” to mean an irrelevancy.

No K-9, no deal.

It has The Rock so I honestly could care less about the quality of the flick. I’d watch that man poke at a pile of dog shit with a twig for 2 hours and then find a date so I’d have an excuse to see it again.

I think having Inafune’s name (however tangentially) attached to the product might have gotten the marketing team spooked after the Mighty No. 9 debacle.

It’s easier to animate a rubberhose arm period. It doesn’t matter if you’re drawing it on paper or on a tablet. Look at black and white Fleischer and Disney and Warner Bros and you’ll see rubberhose everywhere. The animation became stellar in subsequent decades because those guys basically invented all the animation…

Yea, the Crewniverse is legit as hell. I believe they scan the hand drawings and composite and color in TVPaint.