Every time I see someone with one of these watches, I’m going to make eye contact and then shout at them “I like shorts! They’re comfy and easy to wear!”

Maybe it’s because it isn’t selling well in Japan. If Nintendo committed to produce X units (parts ordered, manufacturing contracts) and they aren’t selling well in one region, redirect some of those units to a different region just in time for the holiday shopping season.

AUTOBOTS INFERIOR.

I’m trying to be as spoiler-free as possible here: Don’t let anyone tell you how to fish. I think that sequence works best if you have to figure it out on your own.

Its name derives from ‘the devil’s interval’, a musical term describing an atonal three-note sequence designed to provoke a sense of unease in the listener

What timed exclusivity? I thought it was a matter of Firaxis not bothering to port it to platforms where it will sell poorly (compared to PC), with the added bonus of not needing to worry about controller support, so they can design a really good keyboard+mouse UI.

That reminds me of something from Snow Crash, where the Feds would send out documents that were mandatory for everyone to read. Employees would be told how long they were expected to read the document, and the manager would track those times. If a document said it should take 14 minutes and 27 seconds to read it, the…

It depends on how they set the data up. If, when they made ORAS, they added functionality to make it easy to add new pokemon in the future, they just need to patch in the stats and 3D model, and now they have #722. Given how much Game Freak loves their event legendaries, it wouldn’t surprise me if they did the extra…

After Hoopa and Volcanion were discovered in XY, maybe Game Freak decided that all future secret legendaries will be patched into the game along with the event, instead of built into the initial game and only released later as events. It wouldn’t surprise me to see a patch for ORAS (and maybe even XY) the week before…

It was pulled from the iOS and Android app stores a while back for some reason. If you have a 3DS you can get it on the eShop for $8.

Grinding in MMOs requires more attention. Griding in Pokemon means absentmindedly riding a bike on the beach to hatch eggs while I watch the Daily Show.

You’re thinking of the right one, I just worded it poorly. What I meant was that it would be much worse today because the culture of the internet is different.

My point was that, thanks to the social media echo chamber, it would be an order of magnitude worse today. Back then, people complained on the IGN message boards. Today, people would be doxxing Miyamoto’s daughter and sending her rape/death threats.

Can you imagine the shitstorm that would have happened if the internet in 2001, when Nintendo first showed Wind Waker, was like the internet of today?

Is this confirmation that Zelda Wii U will be released in 2016?

I think Metroid would qualify, but only if it came from Retro. They hinted at Star Fox last year at E3, so that’s a possibility too.

I agree that we will never know if any of those games would have been made without Kickstarter, but consider that nobody was making big-budget games in those styles prior to Kickstarter.

Well, there’s the 2 you listed, for starters. It’s unlikely any publisher would have funded an isometric RPG in 2012, and Obsidian definitely didn’t have the cash on hand to fund it themselves. Similar for Broken Age, but substitute “isometric RPG” for “point-and-click adventure”.

The fundamental difference between Kickstarter and a preorder is that with a preorder you are paying money now for something that will exist regardless of whether or not you preorder it, but with Kickstarter you are paying money now for something that will never exist without your money. The benefit of paying in…

Maybe he found an answer to the question, “What can change the nature of a man?”