@pan_22: Could be? It's actually hard to remember because I kept it for a very short time. It made me crave the older trajectory games, especially when I kept shooting straight for the target and seeing the birds just bounce off.

@jayd189: Ah, I find 1/5 way too dim even in a dark room. Actually, 5 is on the edge sometimes. I always play my PSPs at 3/4 though, to compare.

@Chrysolite: Do you know the power outputs of the solar and wind farms, compared to a single small nuclear reactor?

@Satan: That's actually very important to keep in mind. They used nuclear power back then, so soon after the bombings, because... they needed to. The archipelago has few natural resources, and it would cost them absurd amounts to ship in coal to power the whole country, or fuel oil, natural gas, etc. Apart from not…

I loved this game, but as for the combat... I quit playing near the end of the game because my partner started taking 150+% damage. That's right, their damage will carry over onto your screen and kill you. It's not fair, but I only have one set of eyes, and two *&$%@^ gimmicky screens, so that kind of spoiled it for…

@jayd189: That's kind of unthinkable since with power saving and brightness level 3/5, my 3DS lasts about 3 hours brand new.

@The Rogue Economist: You beat me to it!

@RatherDashing: Exactly. Being the head of a PR company is like providing celebrity by proxy. You may not be famous, but you'll make sure your clients are well known. Like being a celebrity, you will be scrutinized at all times. It's not fair, but it's absolutely expected and predictable. The "mic" is always on, and…

@TheDreamTraveler: I get half as much because while I use power saving, I also use 3D, because it's a 3D system. With a PSP, I could go hang out at a friend's place all night, playing the system whenever I could. I'd come home with it around 50-60% remaining, and plug it in (PSP-1000, 2000.)

The region lock is gone and the battery is doubled?

I found these games much more educational back when you could set the angle and power level numerically and then experiment with changing one or the other to get the desired result. Angry Birds was more like aim... fling! Aim... fling! Except it wasn't really aiming when a dotted line spelled out the trajectory before…

@Shini: R.O.A.C.H.: The Viper series of games (need I say NSFW? The link is fine though - just a Wiki) didn't look like mailboxes clanging together. It was fully animated, and is so old now it's totally defunct.

It breaks my heart to see whole books written with such glaring oversights like this, but in this era, you REALLY need to consider more than just the USA, especially if you're talking about video games. Sex in gaming isn't the last frontier in storytelling, it was one of the first!

@gonintendo: On one hand, I wouldn't suspect you of making this up with a name like that, and just the fact that it deposits oil on the top screen shows they are coming too close when closed.

@big_erk: haha... Actually, I'm really sick of digging the stylus out, extending it, tapping something, then folding it up and putting it away every 5 min! It seems Nintendo and third parties alike take the touchscreen as an excuse to not design basic d-pad menu functions...

@Astrix: I'd always thought of it as "ennui" myself. Kind of a depressed state where you may be bored, but entertaining things still don't feel right, so nothing's good...

@aLynHall: I think that's very close. In Buddhism, I think it's more that you realize the aporia, then come to accept it, then move on and enjoy life, knowing that most things people get worked up over are meaningless, but still enjoying what you experience.

Definitely. "Hey, I have a sense of deja vu, just like the last time this happened! Which was... when?"

@spiderweb1986: Well, alcohol or not, when was the last time a responsible driver doing the speed limit smashed a sports car through 40 yards of trees and exploded?

@gonintendo: The screens don't rub together, so they don't scratch. The bottom does sometimes deposit a bit of skin oil from the edge of the bottom screen, but it wipes off.