You did read the intial post where I said that I’d stop buying games from Gamestop, right?
And the follow up, to which you just replied, where I said that it’d be increasingly unlike that I’d buy games from Gamestop?

It’s part of the package and includes the box art, which isn’t easily replaceable. If I chose to replace the case, that’s additional cost and hassle.
Or I could buy games from somewhere that isn’t Gamestop, which seems increasingly likely.

It’s true that the blu-ray coating is quite durable. I imagine though that, just for practical reasons, the rentals will probably be done using the game’s regular case (otherwise gamestop will need to keep a great number of empty cases just for the purpose of renting them), which will proceed to suffer wear and tear…

Note to self, do not buy any more pre-owned games from Gamestop.
By which I mean, their pre-owned game stock is probably going to get quite beat up, making them less attractive to people looking to buy and hold.
Also, this seems like it will get progressively less useful as it gains in popularity? As more people use it,…

Is that... lego Richard Branson?

But the negotiation between mothers was portrayed as a transition for Ponyo, seemingly a permanent one in which Ponyo’s mother is essentially giving the girl up. If Ponyo is of the land of the dead and returns there, that makes no sense. Ponyo’s mother could visit whenever she pleased, one presumes.

If you take this viewpoint, it seems like the ending becomes very strange? Ponyo’s mother, a goddess, basically consents to let her daughter remain dead? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the film, so perhaps I’m not remembering it correctly.

It feels like ceramic, but what is it actually made of?

It feels like ceramic, but what is it actually made of?

Normally the sequel in name only Final Fantasies (the majority of the franchises main entries), begin life with the purpose of being a sequel (even if only in name). This appears to be a renaming of an existing,already released game with the sole intention of drawing on the favorable market reception of the original…

If I’m reading this right, it’s a sequel in name only, being completely unrelated to the original dimensions?
It also looks like the model is basically an excuse for gacha like activities?

I’ve had good luck using Kinect devices for motion capture, etc. I never cared much for it as a gaming device, but it’s off label usage has been amazing.

I think a max of 300 memory may be required for one of the new game plus prestige options. Getting it at that point is trivial though.

Counterpoint - “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” -Kurt Vonnegut

So Veidt’s gone nuts and disguised himself as Rorschach. Probably Dr. Manhattan gave him brain cancer before he (Manhattan) left, as vengeance for Veidt doing the same to Manhattan’s loved ones.
This is going to be painful to read.

On the one hand, it feels like a bad coding practice. On the other, it’s an elegant solution to an entirely different problem.

The Harmony Gold defense?

I’d be fine if games didn’t have VA. That’s how I played them for years.
But, if you have it, it needs to be good. Bad VA can make an otherwise good game seem bad.
Similarly, if you give a character a voice... that’s their voice. Arbitrarily switching it out later is asking for trouble.

Individual GameStops seem to have a lot of leeway in how they pursue corporately mandated quotas.
My local store, for instance, recently tried to tell me that they no longer did refunds for sealed new games. They relented once I pointed out that this was not their corporate policy.

Batman and Movie Mr. Freeze were in a tragic transporter accident, apparently.

My Dad’s a big fan of Blade Runner, and also Whiskey (though he prefers Glennfidich). Any thought on how one might actually purchase this?