They only did that up through 6; after that, each one has been standalone.

In cases like Keijo!!!!!, where fanservice seems to be the entire point of it, I just file it in the same mental bucket as pornography (with all the moral arguments and complications of it, except without actual people being filmed). Other cases, where fanservice just comes up in a sole episode (the random obligatory…

It’s kind of like, since my car is very, very powerful, I don’t need to put any gas in it. When the car is powerful enough, it can run even when there’s nothing to run on. And when you’re smart enough, you can make intelligent decisions about the world even when you don’t know anything about the world.

I remember seeing a report looking at ways to more humanely kill people, and it turns out there’s a perfect alternative: Nitrogen suffocation (see for instance this article from Slate on it: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/05/death_by_nitrogen_gas_will_the_new_method_of_execution_save…

Since wonder trade came out, I’ve made a point out of trying to get female starters so that if nothing else, I can breed them and WT out starters to people. I might not be far in Moon by Christmas, but I’ll at least be far enough to do that, so I’ll try to spread the joy with lots of adorable Popplio for everyone!

Ah, I remembered it: The more common name for it is “moral licensing.” You can start from the Wikipedia page to find out more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing

I don’t have my hopes up - still waiting on an international release for Breath of Fire VI here.

One theory bounced around about this is what I call the “morality bank.” The human mind acts to some extent like morality is a bank, where it can bank away good deeds and later make withdrawals by performing bad deeds, and as long as everything balances out in the end, all’s good. They can still look at themself as a…

You never even heard of the sketching Gau glitch in FFVI? That one’s pretty famous.

The difference is that Blizzard has to defend against every possible exploit, while cheaters/hackers/exploiters only need to find one. In a game as complicated as Overwatch, there are going to be innumerable ways to cheat, and Blizzard has to somehow defend against them all. They have a lot of clever people with more…

What is it this week with amputated toes? First I learned about the Sourtoe Cocktail, and now this... Well, I suppose this is at least a significantly less gross thing to do with a toe.

The worst part is that it’s a geometric distribution, meaning if you haven’t gotten one yet, the expected time until you do is ALWAYS 341 hours - past failures have no impact on the future, so until luck blesses you, you can’t even justify that you’re getting closer to success.

At some point, you actually will get more energy out. Kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity, is the key here. With a little algebra, you can show that under constant force F, the output power (change in kinetic energy per unit time) will be Fv/2. So, whatever the relationship is between the input…

Well... almost every game. Maybe, every game that doesn’t have “Five Nights at Freddy’s” in the title - that’s the only series I’ve ever seen that actually releases ahead of the target release date more often than not. Given that it’s almost entirely done by Scott Cawthon alone, it’s likely that he’s just an outlier.…

Blocking eshop access even for redownloading games is a step too far. I get that they pirated, but this is effectively taking away games from them that they already purchased. We shouldn’t accept that companies have the right to take our games back if they aren’t happy with us.

These are indie developers. They don’t think like big corporations where it’s all about the bottom line. It’s entirely possible they just want to do something nice for people, and aren’t thinking about future profits from it.

As much as I hope this show will truly break the mold and cement the relationship as canon by the end, I don’t have my hopes up high. I just went through all of Macross Delta, hoping for canon confirmation of a F/F couple being together romantically, but they teased up through the final episode.

The Spanish flu epidemic that hit right after WWI, as mentioned in other comments here, had a big impact on the way the public viewed the time period. It wiped out around 100 million people, and likely helped cement the public view of the time period as being miserable and filled with pointless death.

I’ve heard rumors that Nintendo was very slow with providing dev kits to many companies, so it’s possible that they just haven’t had enough time to develop something for it to be ready by launch.

That’s not the law, though. The law has exceptions for Fair Use - otherwise creators could quash negative reviews that include any element of their work, for instance. The problem is that Fair Use is hard to measure objectively, and YouTube’s mechanisms are bound by the requirements of the DMCA, which makes Fair Use a…