The ones I don't like are where they bag on things that aren't really terrible/stupid.

This article was linked in a more recent one, and I wanted to come back to this:

I thought this was going to be some racebaiting clickbait, but this dude is pretty darn funny. But you know what? People do crazy stuff with cosplay all the time, mixing up genders and all kinds of things. Who's to say you can't do whatever the heck you feel like?

That was pretty awesome.

Generally I'm torn, because on the one hand, some tattoos look cool, but on the other hand they tend to turn me off more than they don't.

What the hell did I just watch? My jaw has been open for 2:20.

According to the cat, yes.

I'm totally guessing at what the previous poster meant, but I think most people consider the mid- to late-16-bit era through the early 32/64-bit era as a particularly favorable period of RPG releases. Though it's probably inaccurate to some degree, I usually bookend it in my head using the U.S. release of Final…

Well, there are a lot of classic RPGs, and not just because of the law of averages. There were simply a good number of notably great RPGs back in the day, regardless of origin. Though, the 90s-00s did see a particularly large surge of JRPGs due, I think, in large part to Final Fantasy VII's success (notice there are…

I would have to say those are some rose-colored glasses.Sure, lots of games came out every year, but most of it was junk. I'll admit to some personal favoritism in this list, (not everyone cares about Wild ARMs) but on the whole there were never more than a handful of notable releases in a given year. Going by first…

I seized on that too, got a good laugh out of that one.

I got everyone to go except for Vince. I do wonder just how much different the game gets with different choices. There were more than a couple spots where I could imagine things going notably different ways.

Well Mitsuda did have help from Uematsu and another dude, but dang. I never realized he was that young at the time.

Uematsu was born in 1959, he was 35 when Final Fantasy VI came out.

The second link is better than the first. As interesting as the opera remix is, I feel like it's trying too hard – but I feel that way about pretty much every rendition of the opera, so there's that.

Yeah, part of the appeal was that it was doing things we'd never seen before in games. Now, we've seen even more ludicrous gibs, not to mention weird and wacky weapons and dual-wielded pistols in more places than a person can count.

Likely it IS a cultural thing. You know, we have all these states that each have their own cultural identities in a lot of ways – and people identify with that. They very much consider themselves Californians or New Yorkers or Texans, alongside considering themselves Americans. It's not like, say, England, where…

Metroid: Zero Mission is sorta that way, though I guess it is more of a "re-imagining".

Whoa there. As someone who called Owen out for the article, let me be the first to say that it's not BECAUSE he was exercising his right to express his opinion. This is a misunderstanding that seems to happen a lot, the 'protection' that freedom of speech, freedom of the press, etc., is that people have a right to…

Say what you will about Rick Santorum, but I always thought that was pretty shitty.