Honestly, it probably wasn’t a bad move on Capcom’s part - the game was a disjointed, broken, literally unplayable mess at that point, and even after Rockstar’s heavy TLC treatment, Red Dead Revolver still ended up pretty rough, with reviews in the low-mid 70s, and decent but not incredible sales numbers.

Glad they had the sense not to go with bikini armor - it’s one thing to put it in a high-fantasy world where it can at least be justified by something stupid like “the shape doesn’t matter, it’s enchanted” or “the armor enhances the boobs natural defensive power” or some BS (they do usually have wizard robes that…

Everyone likes the Shep they started out with best, because that’s who the character is to them; I get weirded out every time I see an official clip of Mass Effect and Male-Model-default-Shephard starts talking, because my Shephard looked *nothing* like him, and hearing that voice come from that face was just... unsett…

Think of it this way - you know how Las Vegas’ casinos are kind of shady? Japan’s pachinko market generates more gambling revenue than that of Las Vegas, Macau and Singapore combined. The pachinko market, by itself, is responsible for 4% of Japan’s gross domestic product, or around $225 billion dollars (¥25 trillion)…

Much appreciated - I’m sitting at home recovering from surgery atm, and that comment made my day 🙂

It does, until you realize it’s a private company - our murder victim, Uchigashima Masaki, succeeded Uchigashima Toshihiro as President of the company sometime between 2012 and the time of his death (I found a report from 2012, and Uchigashima Toshihiro was still President at the time); in other words, it’s a family-ru…

This is just personally preference talking, but, whenever I kill myself, I always like to start by cutting my arms and legs off, then curb-stomp myself before shooting myself multiple times through the heart from behind and arranging my limbs in a ritualistic manner. Sometimes I also like to carve strange symbols all…

I would guess the latter - street-level Yakuza may not always be the brightest of the bunch, but they’re still generally smart enough not to leave the murder weapon at the scene, or to touch and place belongings like his cell phone.

He obviously tripped on a banana peel, then tumbled end over end into a random knife that just happened to be lying there, over and over, before finally accidentally kicking it into the bushes.

I wish I could get that Rainbow Smash Pickaxe in before Halloween - I think it would go great with my traditional Samurai outfit.

Everyone seems to like Kassandra - I haven’t played the game, but every post, article, comment or blog I’ve read on it only ever mentions her. I don’t even know what the male protagonist’s name is, and if I hadn’t read in previews that you could pick a gender, I’d have assumed she was the only option.

I had to go ahead and block those - I like Kotaku, but unless I get a brick of gold for each view, I'm not watching auto-playing ads, no matter where.

It’s exactly one step up from those terrible, terrible Wikia auto-play videos they’ve forced on the top of wikis (and which exist only to be blocked, and to foster deep hatred) - either way, both are hundreds of feet under in a bottomless septic tank.

Sorry, but it’s definitely “a shady business.”

Now if only there were a simple solution, like, say, not forcing auto-playing videos or streams into people’s browsers...

15% is the base in most of the US, in that it’s what they use to estimate your income for minimum-wage purposes; so, between 10-20% is normal, with under 15% being for bad service, 15% being for decent but nothing special service, and above 15% being for good service/showing your appreciation. Above 20% is in “Ooh,…

Kind of reminds me of playing Civ2 (and later, Alpha Centauri) over email with folks, except less micro-managing, and with a set schedule - also sounds shorter, those Civ/AC games could go on for months depending on the settings. Good times, though. Except when everybody suddenly decided you were too dangerous to…

Looking forward to Call of Cthulhu and Death Mark for Halloween - I loved RDR, but think I’ll wait on RDR2 for a while, not really feeling too cowboy-ish, and I have a backlog that, realistically, will take many years to get through as is.

Ok, so yeah - they’re just called “Evils” in the Japanese version; but no, even when the word is already in English, they decide to take the word infested, and replace the beginning with ‘mal’, meaning bad or evil, just so we know they’re not potentially infested by something good without needing an additional word...

Is this another one of those things where the Japanese version uses a real, normal word for it (like corrupted or something), but the localization team didn’t think it was edgy enough, so they smushed together two real words to bring forth the ultimate edginess?