To be fair, a lot of the problem has to do with the housing market crash, which both created a surplus of cheap property and a desire to improve the local economy, so in those circumstances people will take the opportunity to move into big fancy cities, and the natives will support anything to create jobs. Can't blame…

Used to be the same case in San Francisco... until said transplants became 75% of the population and raised the median rent about 300%; now there’s no one left to complain. Oakland is quickly becoming the same way. It’s a pretty genuine fear, with a lot of precedent. I was in Portland a few months ago, musing about…

Yeah, that was a pretty stacked card. Maia crushing Gunnar was fun. Romero v. Jacare was a TON of fun for me, if only because I’m in constant fear for Romero’s opponents, and Jacare’s scary knockdown and incredible comeback, made for great TV (I also think he should have won, and had there been two more rounds he…

I’m excited to have a whole new batch of empty treasure chests to read.

Well let’s not forget that the founder of Kyokushin Karate, Mas Oyama, was a Korean dude (Choi Yeong-eui) who, despite living through quite a great deal of racism, still gave Japan one of its most awesome fighting systems (and brutal full-contact competitions).

Throughout Dual Destinies, I couldn’t help but notice how huge Phoenix’s pecs were. He was oddly large in previous games, but I always figured it was a quirk in the artstyle. In the 3DS version, in full 3D, they gave his body structure some insane detail, with him bulging out of his suit. He must have gotten a lot out…

With his redneck rampage V-Trigger.

I got mine pretty recently, and I wish I did what you did and waited. In any case, my first 5 were Fire Emblem, Zelda, Xenoblade, Bravely Default, and Ace Attorney vs. Layton. Later grabbed Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, and had Project X Zone from a friend at Namco. No regret with any of them, particularly Fire Emblem…

Is it pretty good? Maybe I got a bad one, but while it charges normally when my 3DS is sleeping, it has a weird stuttering charge when I’m playing.

While I did play FFIII(VI) when it first came out and absolutely loved it, I missed out on Chrono Trigger for some reason when I still had a SNES. I started a few times during high school and college, but didn’t beat it until almost a decade later in 2012. Despite playing it over 17 years after its release, it…

There’s a very weird dynamic between frustration and sympathy that arises from watching this show as. I’m constantly feeling torn between “just say it already! Get to the point! It’s literally RIGHT thete!” and “damn it. They’re kids. They don’t know how or what to make of their thoughts and feeling.” I think it’s the…

Is there a Kamina version of the DO IT meme? There has to be, right?

Man, I remember looking at screenshots of EQ back in the day, thinking to myself “wow this game is pretty” while playing Asheron’s Call.

Well, I think the most that I can say is that the thing I got fired for was pretty commonplace and minor, but escalated to an irredeemable offense when it came time to cut costs in the department. Another guy I knew had a pretty bulletproof record, but his manager really wanted him gone for some reason, so that…

My buddy was a project manager there, and he left citing reasons just like yours. So yeah, you’re not alone. Personally, I got sent packing against my will, despite being one of the biggest PS advocates ever, and I noticed this ironic trend where they’d fire folks who were happy there and kept folks who would weren’t,…

I used to work SCEA also. As you probably know, we used to always get copies of 1st party titles a week or two in advance, and it wasn’t always the biggest deal in the world. But I remember one time we got a particularly high profile title early, and someone posted pics of it on FB or something. Ultimately, the woman…

It may unintentionally make sense, if we’re counting Money’s 6 losses (I think?) as an amateur and his 1996 robbery at the Summer Olympics.

Ah yes, Sunset Overdrive, that game that I vaguely rememvet

It’s funny, because I used to play Tekken almost exclusively in high school (T3, T4 and TTT mostly) and to a lesser extent 2D fighters like CvS2 and MvC2. CvS2 later took over my colleges years however, becauae I simply couldn’t find any other Tekken players. In any case, I thought I was a pretty “serious” player, and…

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