Nintendo’s Old Japanese Websites Current Online Functions are an Internet Time Trip

Unfortunately, zoos in China are exactly the kind of awful animal prisons that absolutely should be shut down. That monkey is desperate for a reason.

I can’t support Boys and Girls in America as The Hold Steady’s best album. It has some great songs, but Separation Sunday is the masterpiece. (Everything after Boys and Girls in America can step in front of a bus.)

I have to imagine that this phone is designed for the Chinese market, where somehow QR codes are popular while NFC is rarely used. Seems like an awful decision for every other market. Saved $3 on that chip though!

Shoulda been Yangus.

HiSilicon is a fabless shop. They are actually fabricated in Taiwan by TSMC, which probably would not be willing to fabricate for them against the terms of this ban. HiSilicon would have to set up their own fabrication facilities, which is not particularly easy.

I’ve read it twice in full and am once again on the ninth book. Can’t recommend it enough.

And of the ones I remember, I can’t claim to care much about any of them. 

That was what I was thinking on Yakuza 0 . . . until they never even bothered to give the homeless guy you hide out with an actual name. Nope, just Bearded Homeless Man.

People getting tattoos in languages they aren’t fluent in is kinda sad and embarrassing, but that’s a different issue entirely.

Yeah, that’s more or less been resolved, and it wasn’t going to affect this particular tournament in any case. 

Or you can take the optimistic reading: no change is popular without the inevitable culling of death!

None of this seems particularly new for Chinese censorship. Douyin is just big enough now that they’ve attracted the same attention as the usual big Chinese players like Tencent and Sina.

Doesn’t seem right to say that Fujimura hasn’t won any big tournaments. He won two premiers this year, including CEO, which always has one of the most stacked fields. Pretty sure that’s more than anyone not named Tokido.

I’m in the same boat. I just don’t know how many people are with us. In this comment section and others, I’ve seen more resistance to another platform than I expected. And hey, I’m a bit of a zealot. I find it infuriating when I learn that someone bought The Witcher on Steam instead of GOG.

Well, just think of the ubiquity of Fortnite as a necessary foot in the door that Epic needed to make this feasible. It removes one of the biggest friction points, getting users to create an account for a huge group of people, Fortnite players (although not you and me, I’m not a Fortnite player either).

I don’t think making good games is a valid prerequisite for being an effective storefront.

I have about 400 games on Steam. And it’s not like I have to stop playing them. It’s just a matter of checking Steam and Epic’s new platform when making new purchases.

It is more convenient, but knowing that the devs earn a greater percentage would make me change my platform of choice. I like Steam fine, but less money for the middleman seems great to me.

Yes, perhaps his issue is not that he can’t figure out how to get his money to work for him, but that he is an unlikable jackhole.