Good God, is that an unappealing pairing.

Well, pretend-repealed. Functionally, everything in HB2 is still in place, but we've returned to a state of "since everybody thinks they've won, people can behave sanely once again and this will all rarely, if ever, be enforced and most elements will eventually be overturned at the federal level."

Did you quote Penny Arcade earlier today? With the spider throne thing?

Bernie Sanders just wants everyone to acknowledge him as being smarter than everyone else, and he'll trade away every social gain of the last century if he can say, "See? It was about the economics!"

So, did I miss something? Did they officially end the column? Delete the archives? What happened?

This will go on until they hire a minority comedian and we all suddenly wake up and realize how fucked up this whole thing is.

The Avengers: Robert Downey, Jr.'s New Kitchen

You're not wrong, but I think you're reading too much into my statement. Two games in a row, Atlus has included a half Scandinavian model/actress. What percent of their fanfare does that represent?

The US isn't really any better in that regard, although we do have the decency to cast late-20-somethings instead of actual teenagers for most of those roles in film and television.

Because the protagonist is a high school student who can date other high school students, but many players are grown-ass adults who have to balance the conceit of the narrative with the reality that what they are doing is kinda creepy if you think about it.

I think it's 16 in the state I live in. I'm just busting Japan's balls.

Playing it after Specter Knight I almost put it down and walked away forever. He is an extremely weird character to control and requires a degree of mastery that is rarely asked for in video games. But he's great fun once you get used to him.

Jesus, Japan.

Of course it is.

Specter Knight > Shovel Knight > Plague Knight

The translation is at its weakest early on. All the screenshots with the most egregious examples are from the first palace, and those early hours really do feel clunky and off. The second palace also has more overtly dumb writing that probably isn't simply a result of translation, which doesn't help matters. But the…

Now me would too, assuming he was 18.

I wish. High-school me would be all over him.

That might be how they are now, but pre-Brettonia they would spawn periodically in or very near to the Empire's main province and just go on a tear. Easy enough to fend off if you've got a good army waiting, but it seemed I was always off campaigning elsewhere and was unable to deal with them before losing most of my…

Me, too. I mean, if he was at one point human, he should have a better grasp of being human and not be so fine with being a cat.