I thought the same at first, but then I considered some things:
1. As seen in the SU episode “So Many Birthdays,” adult Steven absolutely has the potential to be a masculine hottie, square jaw and all.
2. Someone else already mentioned this in the comments, but Greg was drawn as buff on the “Guitar Dad” shirts.
3. One… Read more
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Coincidentally, I listen to chiptune music on the daily. Can’t get enough of it, really. Whether original tunes from the era—be they Famicom/NES, Master System, or Amiga—or modern compositions that either respect hardware restrictions or do their own thing, I am all about it. Just this morning, I was listening to… Read more
What I find especially unfortunate is all of the supposed long-term DQ fans and their defense of this soundtrack. They state that anyone who dislikes it must be a fair-weather fan, or someone too young to truly appreciate it.
Meanwhile, I remember playing “Dragon Warrior” in a friend’s den in the ‘80s, and I’ve… Read more
Personally, I do consider it to be “sunshine and lollipops” compared to what most companies have on offer, which is a pink slip and nothing else. Though severance is nice, and unemployment is too, most of the United States (which we’ll focus on since that’s where Blizzard is) doesn’t necessitate severance under most… Read more
Personally, I consider this sort of comment a case of missing the forest for the trees. You are acting as if you’re a champion of respect, but your reaction to one facet ignores the big picture. (You also said “Asian” instead of “Thai,” when the ladyboys you speak of are specifically from Thailand, and if I wanted to… Read more
I know someone else who made an argument similar to this one, and I would call it disingenuous. You did not say anything that was untrue (except for one thing), but you deliberately twisted it in a way to make Nike look as awful as possible, and I say this as a very left-leaning individual. My political alignment does… Read more
Nope, he legitimately had a beach day. The art is also by Yoichi Kotabe, the man responsible for redrawing Mario and company after Shigeru Miyamoto tried his best for “Super Mario Bros.”, and who continued to illustrate Mario officially for two decades. Though he left Nintendo, he still draws for them sometimes, as… Read more
This isn’t the only way Mario’s nipples were shown in 2016. People did give a shit about this one, as the art is great:
Even though I agree that the video game industry has many problems, I do not understand why you believe this is not a good thing, nor does SkyBound deserve any of the flak it is receiving on Twitter (which I’d only discovered after you spoke of developers ranting about this, which is also unfortunate).
I have worked… Read more
Do you know that Shuntaro Tanaka, the co-director of “Skies of Arcadia,” wept when he saw how beautifully Rogue’s Landing was recreated in “Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing?” It is both a wonderful story, and a testament to what a love letter that game is. Its recreations of Skies and Panzer worlds... oh, such wonder!
Spea… Read more
Considering that an electronic brake can’t actuate if power is lost, I agree with the OP: I don’t trust them. Electronic windows are bad enough. As someone who luckily lived through a sudden alternator failure, and whose car consequently became an inescapable dud in the middle of high-speed traffic, I fear this change. Read more
If it helps you feel any better, these controllers may be the same size as to what’s in your hand, but the connector is clearly different, so these new ones are not identical to the originals. Read more
Chicken a la King made properly with plenty of butter, cream, and wine. So delicious. Read more
I feel the same way. (Well, I liked it obviously, but otherwise, our opinions jive.) Now, if someone wanted to criticize its pricing and episodic releases, that is absolutely warranted. Completely expected from Square Enix, too, but warranted criticism nonetheless. Despite this though, I would argue that FFIV:TAY is… Read more
Huh.
Have you fucked yourself yet today? Read more
I personally have no love for FFVIII, yet I thoroughly enjoyed and do not understand the hate for FFIV:TAY. Different strokes. Read more
You know, I like Kotaku. Even though the scum of the Internet (see: above) loves to muck things up over there with their racism, homophobia, misogyny, and everything else terrible about them, it’s still a Gawker/Gizmodo community. Consequently, it has better posters than any other gaming website out there. That and… Read more
Oh, God, we have DAISO in our state in the US, and it’s a Goddamn fantastic store ($1.50 a piece for items almost universally superior to Dollar Tree’s offerings)... so... this is, uh, nothing short of terrifying.
As the US stores carry much of what the Japanese ones do (rather than just being fronts for domestic… Read more
For me, it was “Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.” Up until its release, I was incredibly excited, thinking it was exactly the kind of game I’d love. As a long-time Marvel and action RPG fan, everything felt right. Finally, its release came, and I fired up my Xbox 360 copy. I went through the opening sequence, and a few… Read more
Hold on a minute. I know that you can, theoretically, put books or magazines or whatever underneath your feet and try to take a dump. However, that is much too delicate of a procedure for me to trust things to a pile of objects that may potentially slip and scatter apart. I can just see the books going every which way… Read more