Oh Nintendo, you perpetually weird permanent outlier. What brainworms are making your decisions for you? Because from the outside, literally everything you do is incredibly bizarre.

Why ask why?

Oh god, what I would give for more of this!

it was a pretty sweet deal! Anytime google wants to toss some of their money at me, I’m all for it.

It’s super hard for me to trust Google when I’m buying digital content now, given how I lost all the albums I “bought” on Play Music, now inaccessible to me...

Google’s only acceptable product launch is apparently ‘overnight success’ or ‘instant industry leader’. Have they had a failure they didn’t cut & run from? Something that didn’t immediately gain social traction, but that they believed in so much that they committed resources to fix properly?

I recall Microsoft and the…

How to reuse packing peanuts:

Dilly dally shilly shally, amirite gamers?

I had a lot of fun with Days Gone and would’ve liked a sequel. Boozer died too many times, but I loved the world, the survival aspects, the hordes(!).

That plane fight is totally unrealistic, everyone knows you can’t climb things that aren’t yellow! It’s science!

For the people craving Penny Arcade, the in my opinion best strip this week:

I was saying boo-urns!

Are you saying “boo” or “boo-urns”?

Argh...

What *actually* happened was that in 1807, the astronomers thought that there was 11 planets in our solar system. By 1853, that number of planets increased from 11 to 23. Then, a new definition was created and 15 of those “planets” became known as “asteroids.”

In 1930, when Pluto was discovered, they called it a…

Sure, they had good reasons. And I bet they sent their top men to do the job.

Ah yes. The classic Cascading Failure. A thing that goes catastrophically wrong, causally linked to an endless chain of other Things That Go Catastrophically Wrong that all set off Even More Things That Go Catastrophically Wrong. Like a circular row of dominos, except each domino is an open oil drum filled with…

1) Because “cracker” isn’t a racial slur in Scotland.

I own both consoles, so I’d hardly consider myself a fanboy, but Microsoft’s acquisition took dozens of IPs that have been on Playstation for decades and suddenly said “no more.”

Yeah, this really hits home for me. Whenever I hear of someone dying from this it shakes me to my core. I was incredibly lucky...I fell to the ground with my phone just within reach. 

We need you, along with Cassiebearrawr here more, to counter the idiots and trolls.