Thank you for this. The platform people have to dig into every minute aspect of everything in order to find something wrong with a harmless art is too large. This crap needs to stop and we need to appreciate the nod to Nintendo classics and quit making everything a political statement.

It just seems really euro-centric to me that we insist on pressuring Asian developers to conform to Anglonormative intersectional cultural mores

You’re the best around!

I just took down four with a pot lid. Any shield works!

You can do this with a pot lid. I’ve done this several times.

Consoles can’t handle the graphical power of an arcade game!

It’s not an extra finger, it’s the skin on the edge of the hand that is folded because of the awkward position of the hand. It’s an unfortunate crop, though, because an untrained eye might mistake that portion as an extra finger.

It would so be within Hopps’ character to start a race war...

I’m going to buy this and drive an hour up to my parents house and use their landline to make the long-distance phone call to Redmond Washington. They’re going to be pissed just like they were 25 years ago.

MEANWHILE IN GEN 6:

Already a prime member. Yay free shipping!

I really, really wish I was in that class. That sounds hilarious

There are no winners here.

Fuudo got ROASTED.

Heading to Pokestop: “SITREP: OSCAR MIKE to target location. SNAFU.”

Arriving at Pokestop, only to discover it is attached to a “historical placard” set at the edge of a cornfield in BFE; cell phone reception is questionable: “SITREP: Arrived at target location. Support structure may be compromised. Assessment: TARFU.”

U…

Ah, was going to point out Anthrocon is this weekend as well.

Where’s Marn?

Kotaku jumping to conclusions? Kotakugate!