Finished the story mode of Inazuma Eleven 2 and I'm gonna leave it at that. So much post-game content but so many other games to play, too.

Maybe it just really didn't pair with what I was eating or something, but I thought it was a huge step down from regular Ebisu and also no match for the aforementioned Suiyounobi no neko.

1) If it weren't for politics, "craft beer sellout" would be the most ridiculous phrase I've had to read this week
2) I can recommend Ginga Kogen's Pale Ale and Yoho's Suiyoubi no Neko. I do enjoy typical Japanese beers, but these are good options if you need to remind yourself that malt isn't everything.
3) Most…

You specifically mean some of the Doppelbocks like Salvator, right? Because Helles or Weizen taste nothing like ham.

If you mean in the general sense of "one guy getting a lot of name recognition", that lives on everywhere outside of those global game farms. Think Fish/Persson/McMillen on the one hand and Tørnquist/Sokal on the other.
If not, I don't know if Kaz Ayabe promoting his curry restaurant on Twitter counts as rockstar?

Not sure if there's a connection, but the Kenka Bancho games are generally pretty good. You could place them somewhere between God Hand and good wrestling games, I guess. So if that + beating up dudes swatting in front of convencience stores sounds like your jam, you might wanna give them a shot.

Now this seems like a great pick for "But what about…?" — 0 shooters on the list is perhaps a bit odd. I'm not too well-versed in the SNES library though, so maybe it only got sub-par ports or something? I don't know.

There'd also been a couple of revisions (with rather minor impact on difficulty): https://tcrf.net/Ghosts'n_G…

I haven't played it, but according to the internet it's included as a cheat.

Fair enough; I don't quite see the link with Super Meat Boy in particular or, to a lesser degree, Dark Souls (which did make me laugh from time to time) either. Off the top of my head, maybe the Umihara Kawase games would've been a better comparison in that failure there can be similarly frustrating, but at same time…

On the downside, we had to download our stupid viral things one at a time from eDonkey.

GnG has most enemies both spawning & acting semi-randomly, so… at least you can't win just by memorization? I always felt like that's a minus for most people, though.

Huh? I'm fairly sure every version I'd played except maybe the C64 one had continues.

But that isn't the main joke, as far as I understood the article. Rather, the joke is that the shining knight is — through the game's sometimes, uh, idiosyncratic rhythms — send tumbling and stumbling at every turn where other games let the hero be graceful, cool and stylish. You could watch a perfect playthrough of…

1) "Atari’s later Amiga system" Yikes. Atari ST vs. Commodore's Amiga was some pretty heavy fan war stuff back in the day. You might want to fix that before some Europeans in their late 30's blow a gasket.

Solid picks all around. If Kraftwerk can make it into a Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, so should Yellow Magic Orchestra. Other than that, I'm not sure too many Japanese bands had much of an international impact (I mean, I'm sure that for example Boowy was big in, say, Taiwan as well, but I don't know if that warrants…

Well, Origin On The House has Syberia II for free and the first one is on sale for only 2 bucks over at GOG, so I might finally start fixing that blind spot. It's a great deal, but my frugal side still complains that I've yet to to finish King's Quest 6 and Gabriel Knight 2 & 3.

Right. And from what I gather, "old spring" in Czech would be *drumroll* Staropramen. Man, that beer was a steal before Inbev got its hands on it.

Sadly they seem to have lowered the amount of hops in a bid for more mainstream success, but it remains a very good beer, and one that squarely goes against the idea that pils is what you choose when you want your beer to go down easy. Jever doesn't mess around. (That's actually also the biggest drawback to it — one…

If you can't differentiate between a Flensburger (around 38 IBU) and a Krombacher (around 24) I don't know what to tell you. And don't even get me started on the distinctive stench of an open bottle of Beck's which is plain impossible to fail to recognize. Beer usually doesn't smell like the stairway in an apartment…