Nintendo’s attempts to get online right have been like Patrick Star’s search for the lid. They are so cautious, as if any attempt to create an Xbox Live-style community could potentially lead to an angry parent or worse. It’s like their starting posture is one of games as toys rather than experiences.

It’s funny. Nintendo and Sony have a falling out and that leads to the PlayStation, Nintendo spurns Microsoft and they go off and put out the Xbox without them. Though telling Microsoft to fuck off worked out pretty well for both parties.

“I’ll do it, but only for the attention.”

I guess they’ve had a worse parent company?

You tell me in 2000 that the head of Sega of America and the future president of Nintendo of America would be at a Microsoft retrospective event, I would not have believed you.

That’s unworkable. Marty may have composed the tracks but Bungie paid him, they paid Paul McCartney, they paid for the recording and engineering and all of that. Who, then, should be considered the creator?

This whole saga is weird and unfortunate and distressing.

Don’t blame Marvel. Blame Sony. Marvel and Sony financed it and Marvel made it but Sony is marketing and distributing it.

Yeah, they’re all pretty dependable. And, you know, he still has Lewis Black dropping by time to time.

SA brought both bad and good things to internet culture. But Lowtax can rot.

OK, I was going by something I think I read in WaPo the other day. In any case, I got boosted last week.

Arthur and the Unemployables

If you read between the lines and know anything about the scientific discussions going on right now, you’d realize it absolutely was the vaccine issue. Natural immunity, we’re learning now, lasts about the same stretch of time as the vaccine, which is six months or so. And doctors will tell you, even if you’ve had the…

What is there that wouldn’t undercut the happy ending with him and Debra?

I’m not sure what room the first film left for the story to continue. Baby got out and everyone else died.

That’s really cool. Microsoft in general seems really to be on the forefront of accessibility. The Xbox Adaptive Controller was a stroke of genius. I’m able bodied but I know there are a lot of gamers out there for whom these are godsends.

Yeah, I’m not surprised Shang-chi didn’t get the OK for mainland China. Even before the old comments from Simu Liu came to light, Tony Leung Chiu-wai isn’t a favorite of the CCP.

I’m pleasantly surprised, though this doesn’t let the mouse off the hook for queerbaiting in Endgame and TROS.

Babu Frick was a brief respite from all the nonsense.

“Of course, the rest of The Rise Of Skywalker was, unfortunately, memory-holed because no one can remember seeing that movie.”