Good article Cecilia, but I can’t match your cynicism on this one. We’ve been fighting to get more inclusive games that are about more than the archetypal white male protagonist and his flighty damsels for years. So if a diverse cast and optimistic setting was a marketing decision, and that’s what sells games like…

This kind of shit is why I immediately mute every single human being on voice chat in any online multiplayer game.

Yeah, Mario RPG is definitely one of the first ones I’d swap out if one of my other ideas didn’t work for some reason.

I only ever played the first DKC and wasn’t a big fan...

Heather, can I just say that I really appreciate that you include the transcript with these videos? I like having the option to read or watch the video (which is largely dictated by whether or not I’m at work or not).

$10 is a ton of money?

If 10 bucks is milking your wallet dry, perhaps you have made a mistake along the way?

Aaargh. We need one for PS4, and PSN accepts nothing but abusive chat reports.

This looks so cartoony its great! Its like watching two dastardly villains curling their mustaches while they set up a trap only to hilariously fail.  

My 5yo daughter heard his critical hit phrase one time. She wouldn’t stop saying, “Time to take out the trash” for a month. I just wish she was old enough to take out the trash.

Didn’t get a NES Classic.

You seem very salty lately when it comes to Nintendo and I must say, this isn’t like you. Normally you tend to offer good reasonable discourse instead of reaching from the lowest hanging fruit. So what’s up?

Flipnote 3D was available for free for quite some time on Club Nintendo. Did you get it during that period?

Thats not why they shut it down.

Meh. Dump on the game because he didn’t read the manual, in an era where you actually were expected to read the manual. I guess it gets likes.

Ratatatata.

And I would walk five hundred miles,

But whats even better is that her OFFLINE activity is also what gave them concern. Not many parents nowadays notice any of that stuff.

“her parents began monitoring her time online, according to the affidavit.”

Internet tall tales, basically.