They play very differently in practice. Different speeds and weights, different dodging and jumping abilities, different specials. Ribbon Girl can double and triple jump. Twintelle can slow down other characters’ attacks. Master Mummy heals himself when he guards. Ninjara warp jumps instead of doing a regular dodge,…

My vote would go to “This Land is Your Land”. It’s beautiful, it’s happy, it doesn’t exclude anyone on religious or any other grounds and a freaking five-year-old can sing it.

I’m not disputing his popularity. I remember! But the fact remains he was just a bit character in the films themselves and did not need to be shown going out in a blaze of glory. Just being in TLJ at all was enough tribute, I think. Dude was an admiral 30-something years ago. Most admirals don’t get 30-year careers.

I love pink, but not that powder pink. That just looks sickly and almost as drab as OG computer beige in my opinion. Give me a hot, neon, Miami-Vice-called-and-they-want-their-color-back pink any day.

Right on. Ackbar is a background character who fueled a popular meme, nothing more. So many people are acting like he was some integral part of the story who needed to go out in a blaze of glory.

Ninja Squid is the best. I love ambushing. I’ve switched over to mostly sniping lately, but those pop-up kills are so much fun.

I dropped out of the console scene entirely after the Gamecube. Wii just didn’t excite me and I was already getting sick of the console wars at that point. I finally bought a used Wii just a few years ago, mostly so my kids could have some games that were made in the last decade or so, but never bought many games for…

You have statistics for the claim that the majority of white people are evangelicals? Wikipedia says that the most current estimates put white evangelicals at about 17% of the population, while the total white population is 76%. I grant you that’s still way, way too many evangelicals, but it’s not anything like a…

Okay, okay, but I literally just finished having a conversation with my 16-year-old wherein she disclosed that she and her nogoodnik 16-year-old friends are planning to go for fondue this Friday. At an actual, fancy fondue place. It’s the highlight of the weekend they have planned together. Like if you ask her what…

I still can’t figure out why this is a thing in the first place, and how it became (seemingly in the last three years or so) a “tradition”. But I usually just file it away in the very large file of “weird things Christians do around this time of year”, along with the ginormous blow-up alcoholic Santas on the front…

I love this game to bits, but I’m not at all sure I want it as a computer game. It’s so great as a card game.

As much as I’m hearing about the motion controls, I still haven’t had any confirmation about whether you can reverse them for left-handed play. Gyro aiming is no good to me if I have to aim with my dumb right hand. Can you tell me if the controls are reversable?

Potato skin is delicious and contains as many nutrients as the flesh overall. Most of the calcium in a potato is in the skin, and nearly all of the iron. It’s not a “byproduct” it’s an equal part of the product.

Look at Aziz Ansari, you say? Okay, let’s look at the entire episode of Master Of None called “Indians on TV” which is devoted to the fact that this is a huge problem and that most Indian actors never have a chance to do anything about it.

I’m really glad it’s not my job to market pro-American WWII games to the Japanese. I mean how do you even begin to make this game cool to the people who were on the opposing side and had two of their cities vaporized by American forces? Maybe this kind of WTF marketing is the best they could think of, given the…

Every time I see or hear anything about the XC2 characters, I want the game a little bit less. The character design that we’ve seen so far is atrocious. 90% of the female characters are rocking booty shorts with a thong showing above the shorts, or the open-top-bra-showing look, or both. The male lead looks like a…

Right, because the designers of the game obviously don’t know these things. I mean what do a bunch of people from Italy know about stuff like that, amirite?

Yep. Gollum is turning into Boba Fett. They want him to be everywhere. I love Gollum’s original story. Let him be.

Yeah, this white Panther fan has been waiting for this since Marvel started making movies, and I don’t think there’s EVER been a Marvel movie that I was so hyped about. I can’t wait for February.

Well, yes, you do pay an entry fee for CCGs. They are almost always built so that you can’t play them using booster packs alone. Magic gives you, what, one Land per booster? And Pokemon boosters never contain basic energy cards. If you want to get anywhere in these games, you will need to buy a theme deck or starter…