god damnit I assumed TTYD was available for the 3DS. well shit.

Playing around with different builds was great. I wish they made a version that didn't tie down gaining new jobs to trudging through most of the story.

me too. that is what made the final third of the game such a grind. Without giving anything away I will say that if you compulsively need to finish each task you will be overwhelmed.

well that is exciting news. I may just jump straight to that game now.

all jobs have varying degrees of "burning trash so you can get more money to burn more trash", don't let that get you down.

Did you end up finishing Bravely Default? I got the *****SPOILERS**** the third round of repeating the timeloop thing and just gave up. Is it worth it?

I'm playing through Sticker Star now and enjoying it a lot. Have you played that? Do you recommend I give Thousand Year Door a shot after this?

everybody wins!

beer, cheese and guns

Government funding can also creates a perverse incentive against finding other sources of revenue. I work for part of Wisconsin public broadcast that has never tried to raise funds on its own because our bosses think that raising our own money will give legislators reason to cut our government funding. Our bosses…

Sorry to hear that and thanks for the compliment about WPB. the budget proposes a 34% cut to WPB funding, which is too big for us to make up in the short term through fundraising. We will have to go through layoff and reduce original production significantly, but it won't mean the end of WPB in its entirety.

I moved here with my wife because she got a job at UW and I found work with Wisconsin Public Broadcasting. Both of our jobs may be cut thanks to Walker's budget, so we may be joining you in Chicago in the near future. Wisconsin doesn't feel like a hospitable place to academics and public services anymore.

You should give Madison a shot, it is really wonderful. When you live here you just have to put on your mental horse blinders and pretend it is part of a different state. Which is normally pretty easy, but right now Walker is running for president and pushing through a bunch of awful legislation to make him favorable…

That's what I mean. Spend a few days reading about the Wisconsin budget proposal and Illinois won't seem so bad.

You could come up to Wisconsin, that will probably make you feel better about Illinois.

I love Anna from Device 6 https://www.youtube.com/wat… It's context in the game is deeply unsettling, but the song itself is a blast.

Extra Credits did a great episode on the animations in the new and old Punch Out!!! that serves as a nice accompaniment to this article https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Hey buddy, I think I am going to devote some time each sunday to working on this. I'll send you updates by posting on this thread.

I live in Wisconsin and thanks to my public institution hating governor, I have a very uncertain economic future, which means I certainly can't afford a new gaming device. So that system coming out right after I bout the 3DS really feels like a kick in the nuts now.

Hell yes it can!