The thing is that the Retron 5 is by no means the first clone console out there. It’s not even the first multi-system clone console out there. Or the first to support native gamepads. And its lacking a lot in terms of reliability: I know at least three people (myself included) who bought one and had it last for a…

I have a soft spot for the North American console design itself, which has always looked a bit sturdier to me, but the four-color button controllers are much nicer looking than the two-shades-of-purple design on the North American variants.

That’s $50 more, assuming you have all of the 21 games listed. The Retron 5 works with the original cartridges, and if you wanted to replicate the experience on offer here without an existing cache, you’d need to spend a good deal of money to buy them all. Some won’t put you back much (Super Mario World), but games…

Casualty typically bests Doctor Who, though, so the fact that it did so once again is hardly surprising. More tellingly, the fact that the highest rated show of the day couldn’t crack 5 million viewers on overnights (plus the 22% percent share is pretty typical for the show) is just weirdly low for the UK. That…

The scenes of the hospital and the colony ship are pretty much exactly how I imagined Big Finish’s crack at doing a Cyberman origin story (the amazing Spare Parts) to look. In fact, I’d say this episode owes more of a debt to Spare Parts than the old Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel two-parter did, despite the…

I also love the discontinuity of the Master wearing a rubber mask for months in order to fool a bunch of people who weren’t even from Earth, and The Doctor’s companion who wouldn’t have recognized him anyways.

A couple of larger stores/malls I frequent don’t have reliable data connections throughout. I don’t think they’re intentionally blocking anything, mind you, it’s just that the building architecture or something creates issues with it.

I don’t know if it was bad, but it certainly wasn’t very good. It makes me glad Toby Whithouse didn’t wind up with the showrunner gig, honestly.

I actually really liked Haru, and thought she got some legitimately interesting development, even if it would have worked better in terms of pacing if you didn’t need to cram it all in during the last third of the game or so. Yusuke was godawful, though, and while I could understand where Ryuji was coming from most of…

Thank you. Yusuke is a creep. There’s the whole thing where his introduction involves blackmailing Ann into posing nude, which he is literally never called to task for throughout the rest of the game. And he’s just generally a collosal ass to everyone. Another key moment is when he criticizes Futaba’s appearance…

I think the fundamental difference with your examples is that it is a cop’s job to enforce laws on speeding. It’s a store store security guard is explicitly hired to stop shoplifters. It is not Kaldaien’s job to stop pirates of someone else’s game. I think there a lot of drivers who would react negatively to having…

Personally, the thing I found weird about this initially, and about the most vocal defenders of it in these comments, is that it isn’t the mod maker’s job to enforce someone else’s IP. I don’t condone piracy in the least, and I stress that I’m not really criticizing the idea that Kaldaien is fully justified to do…

They both irritate me, but I think I can tolerate Ryuji more. He’s a jerk, but it feels like most of his assholishness is accidental. I wish he showed a little more willingness to learn from his mistakes, but at least he doesn’t really seem malicious.

Did you look at your own links? Because, frankly, they don’t tell the story you seem to think they tell. The BARB average ratings for each series since 2005 have been quite consistent: series 3 shows final ratings around 7.5 million, whereas series 8 shows final ratings around... 7 million. Most other shows would kill…

I disagree with your basic premise. Moffat didn’t “squander” anything. I’ve been a fan of the franchise since the classic era, and Moffat did what every new producer/showrunner has always done: he added his own stamp to things. If you don’t like that, fine. There are periods of the show’s history I’ve not been much of…

I was obsessed with Final Fantasy V, back in the day. I played through a good chunk of it before the RPGe patch was released. I didn’t understand a lick of Japanese, mind you, but I had a text script from the Internet and a table of kana (thank god the menus didn’t use kanji!) and managed to get about halfway through…

I know fandom has this tendency to blame everything they dislike about the show on Moffat and refuse to give him credit for the things they like, but I guarantee that little to nothing in this particular episode is down to Chibnall’s involvement. Because he’s not involved yet. Beyond simply not being credited, he’s…

This reminds me that I really miss the old school kids’ show intro format where they do their best to squeeze the entire backstory into a minute-long theme. It was pioneered by Sid and Marty Krofft in the 1970s and persevered through at least the late 1990s (seen here with Sonic Underground) before seemingly dying…

Archie Comics put out some amazing licensed comics in the 1990s. I’ve always been partial to their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, which started out as straight-up adaptations of the cartoon before very quickly veering into very outre territory, and winded up in a much, much different place than any other…

As I understand it (and it’s been years since I first heard this, so take it with the requisite grain of salt), it was something akin to an internal Disney turf war. DuckTales was one of the first projects for their new television animation studio, and there was some concern at the rest of the corporation about…