I’m still seeing “Roman gladiator”, right down to the name (Max for Maximus), but now that you said it he does have a strong Aztec vibe.

Thank you for that response. I’ve been wondering what “rogue-lite” meant for a while, toop. I play a lot of roguelikes, but -lite was a new one to me.
 

That’s not even remotely what I was doing, but if you want to believe that I married my wife 20-odd years ago and raised two kids with her all for the purpose of scoring a couple of “I’m not racist” points in a random, anonymous Internet forum in 2017, I guess that’s what you’re going to believe.

I see this literally every day, in so many different situations. My kids are mixed race, but light skinned enough that nearly all white people assume they are white, and their friends come from a wide variety of ethnicities, and the difference in the way adults approach the various groups is so stark and obvious it’s…

I was going to say something like this. I really appreciate Prime in general, but twice now I’ve preordered Switch games with Prime and had the deliveries delayed. Disgaea 5 was a few days late, I said no big deal and waited. With MK8 they couldn’t even tell me when it would ship, so I canceled and bought it at Target.

I was going to say something like this. I really appreciate Prime in general, but twice now I’ve preordered Switch…

Oh great, now I have to worry about damage to our potentially-worth-$200 Totoro DVD (which was a bargain bin rescue, cost all of $5).

I have to speak up on behalf of your knitting friend, because as a knitter I can tell you that’s just what we do. The mindset of most serious knitters is “always be knitting”. Knitting takes massive amounts of time, so you want to be working on it whenever you have a chance. Sitting down for two hours to watch a…

Black Panther - both the new Coates run and Christopher Priest’s classic “Enemy of the State” run are included in this sale. They are both amazing. The Coates books are a slow burn but well worth it, and Enemy of the State is one of the best runs in any comic, anywhere.

Black Panther - both the new Coates run and Christopher Priest’s classic “Enemy of the State” run are included in…

Continuing to produce NES Minis requires several complete production lines that could be used to produce Switches and 3DSes instead. This requires slapping some paint on a handful of docks that they were already making. Guess which thing is simpler.

Disgaea 5 Complete sbould be waiting for me to pick up this morning. I just finished the demo and can’t wait to continue the game.

For real? Wake me up when the poor pro gamers are getting chemical burns, surviving run-ins with ancient and unsafe farm machinery, getting facial scars, tearing their miniscus, inhaling asbestos, working in sub-zero temperatures on stormy seas, or carrying refrigerators and armoires up and down narrow staircases -…

Can we do boardgames? My favorite shrinking experience is a boardgame, Mice & Mystics. It’s a dungeon crawler, but you play as a standard adventurers group who have been turned into mice. You’re wandering around the castle kitchens and sewers, fighting things like cockroaches and spiders and trying not to get squished…

Well, yes, obviously this is good PR. But at the same time it’s a very meaningful thing. A lot of big companies would have just sent a response in plain type and thrown in a coupon for 10% off their next game. Nintendo went the extra mile to write a letter the kid can actually read. That’s the kind of PR that actually…

I feel exactly the same way, and THANK YOU NINTENDO. A European WOC who is a giant movie star, hot as hell, cultured AND a supreme badass? Yes, please.

So basically, Douglas from the IT Crowd is a real person. Crap, I really wanted to believe he was a ludicrous caricature.

I’m still reeling from the idea that she said her own holiday shopping was woke af. It takes a special kind of personality to proclaim yourself woke, much less woke af. I did not even know there were people who did that.

My online experience has been terrible. It’s really disheartening to learn that being able to beat my kids at Mario Kart does NOT mean I’m a good racer after all. Currently at 954 coins. (Although, honestly, I am improving slowly - for a while there I was around 920!)

I’m very satisfied. The Switch is working out wonderfully as a family console and a handheld. I hear a lot of people talking about how there aren’t enough games yet, but there are more than enough for our needs. BOTW alone has eaten up hundreds of hours of my family’s time, while Fast RMX and Binding of Isaac…

Same here. This thing looks fantastic, I want it - but it’s about a year too late and I don’t have an extra $150 to throw at a thing just because it’s real pretty.

I keep it turned off because I can’t even SEE 3D. This would have been a perfect machine for me if it had come out before I bought a New 3DSXL. But I did that, and now I have a Switch, and this is just the most frustrating announcement I’ve ever heard from Nintendo.