The electoral college system isn’t a bad idea in principle, because that ‘tyranny of the majority’ thing is kind of a real issue that would put the entire election in the hands of major population centers, the rest of the US be damned. The ‘Winner Takes All’ rule, however, is what hurts it in practice. Being an…

I’m generally fine with it. I don’t go seeking it out, and I generally don’t bother with shows where fanservice is the only driving element of the show, but if the show has other qualities that make it worth watching, I’m fine with it.

Vita had PS+ going for it though, so there’s that whole ‘monthly free game’ thing which I had tried taking advantage of, only to get screwed over by the memory card prices. Not that it mattered in the end, since PS+ ended up being a complete and total joke with hardly any games worth bothering with.

it’s worth mentioning that, technically, the 3DS has been ‘blown open’ for the most part for several years — Gateway3DS and other flash carts, as well as CFWs, have been available for it for ages now, so piracy and homebrew were already a thing. This year they just managed to break out of the sandbox such that you…

Pretty much this. People seem to confuse “2d” and “3d” and think that because you’re receptive of something in the 2D world that you’re equally receptive to it in reality. No, putting 300 hours on Modern Warfare 2 did not make me a murderer. Likewise, enjoying fanservice that feminists would find tasteless does not…

One of the things I loved about X/Y was how it shook up the ‘rival’ concept by having an actual group of friends that more or less traveled together, and you had your main rival who had the stronger type, but also Shauna, the directionless girl who wasn’t as good at battling and had weak typing but still challenged…

WARNING: Re: Samsun 128GB USB flash drive, these things have a tendency to overheat and cause transfers to fail and whatnot. Supposedly not all batches do this, but watch out.

Won’t matter. Literally all three states would have to be won by Hillary in order to give her the election, and with a ~1% margin in two of the three states, I don’t really see that happening.

half a mile? lucky! The nearest one to me is about 5 miles away.

“ it’d be like moving a van by bouncing basketballs off the dashboard from the inside. It just doesn’t jive with physics as we understand it.”

never gave a shit about shipping. these, on the other hand, are gold.

As someone who’s been around the 3DS hacking community before, I wonder if this is a tempban like they always do when they detect duplicate or missing cartridge headers.

I’ll just be over here, patiently waiting for an announcement of a Project Mirai 3... :<

Cave and the Touhou Project pretty much invented the genre, and they’re still releasing games in their respective series (Dodonpachi/Touhou) to this day. Cave’s games are easier to get ahold of in the west, as they release on a variety of platforms; Touhou’s games are a bit harder to find, since they were never…

And Ikaruga has nothing on Touhou. Could probably go further if we bring in even more obscure titles.

An analog stick allows for precision control of movement speed and direction, something WASD does not. Why do you need a directional pad for weapon switching, when you could map it to the upper keys like usual or just use the scroll wheel?

I’m not really sure what makes you say that. This has plenty of keys, and a proper analog stick for movement control, which are exactly what I’ve looking for in a gaming keypad. Of all the currently-available gaming keypads for PC, only *one* of them has an actual analog stick, and by most accounts it’s a tiny…

So far I can’t say I’ve encountered any FPS which couldn’t properly handle an analog stick, at least. Some other genres like JRPGs typically don’t care about analog movement by convention.

Yeah, I still can’t bring myself to pay that kind of price for it. Unfortunately, neither of those alternatives are good enough either; by most accounts the G13's stick sucks for movement control and none of Razer’s keypads have analog sticks.

Unfortunately I’ve read too many views that claim the stick is too small and in too poor a position to comfortably use as an analog movement control. I nearly bought one.