No, you’re right, this is the uncanny valley of food. It does seem to look a lot better when the camera is further away from it.

Pikmin 3 has absolutely gorgeous fruit. Granted, that’s only fruit, but it’s obvious they spent a lot of time getting them looking right.

You say “absurd difficulty”, I say “doesn’t coddle the weak”.

The game is a physical good, except in Maryland and Virginia, where UCITA was passed. In the other 48 states, software falls under the Uniform Commercial Code, like every other physical good I have ever purchased. Once money changes hands, I outright own the software.

Speaking of flawed premises, “pays money and receives a benefit” is not how EULAs work. Let’s say I buy a game on physical media. I pay money and receive a physical good. At that time, both myself and the store I bought the game from have received consideration. When I get home and install the game, I get the EULA…

“That guy isn’t a lawyer” - is this some kind of reverse appeal to authority?

I was going to write up a long reply, but this guy lists the 3 reasons I was going to bring up, plus 2 more: http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/09/05/eul…

It probably violates consumer protection laws in several states. The fact that there’s an NDA involved, which is a real contract as opposed to an EULA, might shield them from being sued over this.

Charge shot / sniper rifle. Hold the fire button to charge, but while you’re holding the button you walk slower. It’s the most difficult to just pick up and play, and since there wasn’t a tutorial for each weapon a lot of people probably never figured out how you’re supposed to use it.

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Did you know that the guy who currently owns the domain is selling email service, so you can get a @goatse.cx email address?

From what I understand, the console can support up to 4 gamepads simultaneously, but doing so divides the frame rate by the number of gamepads being used - so 2 would run at 30fps each, 3 at 20, or 4 at 15. This doesn’t affect the frame rate on the TV. The reason no games have been made to support this is because…

Sorry, that’s not how ownership of goods works. When I pay money for a physical copy of a game, I *own* it. There is no license involved, it is exactly the same as if I had bought a book. Even if there is a click-through license (which I have never seen for a console game), that license cannot remove my ownership of…

He may be too old for the Joker (unless Batman is also old), but there are plenty of other bat-villains. He’d be an amazing Ventriloquist/Scarface.

Are you saying that you would prefer that Nintendo locked all of the characters in Smash Bros, and the only way to unlock them so that you could play as them was to buy that character’s Amiibo?

Don’t forget NASCAR.

I've never caught a shiny in the wild, but this was overheard in my house as my son was playing in another room:

ThinkGeek has a habit of making some of their April Fools jokes into real products, like the tauntaun sleeping bag, so I wouldn't be surprised if they actually start selling that controller.

They're too worried that a Game Boy would damage the floor.

Bringing both Marle and Lucca to Death Peak, one of the most bittersweet scenes I can think of from any game.