Extra Credits did a good video on it on YouTube not long ago. It was more or less exactly what I was thinking since the PSP days, since I saw the load of games coming to the DS, and nobody giving much of a damn while I owned a PSP..... and that's when I knew I'd never bother with a Vita, because I knew it'd end the…

Does anyone truly, honestly believe this will remain exclusive. This is Square-Enix. There is a 0% chance this stays exclusive unless Microsoft is paying for all of the game's development.... and do they really want to shoulder the budget of a game that needs to sell 5-7 million units to break even, if we assume it's…

Spencer definitely does seem like a cool dude. Him, I like.

I kind of hate that he gets called Major Nelson.... what's his real name? Larry Hryb? Just..... go by that. The fact that people call him his Gamertag is kind of ridiculous to me. I would never call Iwata or Miyamoto whatever their Miiverse names were, because that would be stupid (aside of the fact that it's their…

Don Mattrick just exuded that vibe.... I don't know why but I couldn't stand that guy. He just seemed way too much like a corporate jackass and had such a weasely look about him.

I never buy games used, but that is one way to enjoy it and not give a red cent to EA. I may need to do that at some point. Feel bad for the studio, but I just can't support EA with my money at all.

I was just thinking this. Would it kill them to just make the option available for above ground pools for launch?

I wanted to buy it to show support, but I already got Madden on launch day, and could tell EA was backing out. Between their horrible business practices and abandonment of the Wii U, not supporting EA has been mighty easy. Them releasing literally nothing that interests me (save for Madden, but alas) makes my life all…

How the hell could you have a playtime of over 11,000 hours in Skyrim? I felt compelled to do the math, and that's over 10 hours per day since the day it released, on PC alone. Unless it was left on idle for many, many days in a row untouched.... And even then... Holy hell.

Good thinking. I know there's really no other option for me at this point, so onward I march! Best of luck to you as well! Hopefully you're at an institution that treats you well, since that can make all the difference. The promise of a tenure track slot someday is all that keeps me going sometimes. Haha. I dream of…

Yeah, I know the market for Lit folks hasn't been so great for a while, so that's great news. We have a lot of folks in my program going into 5th years of their PhDs and then needing to take a temporary instructorship to keep looking for positions, let alone tenure track ones. I feel lucky to largely be in a field…

Always nice to see another English professional nerd around these parts! Out of curiosity, are you among the lucky out there, who already had a PhD and a job, or are you a lowly grad student like myself, both fearing and praying for the job market to come? I'm a rhet/comp person myself and work with games…

Part of my uncertainty over playing it is that I don't really want to play a game with such a blatantly over-sexualized main character, so you're not alone. I'm quietly hoping that the additional Nintendo outfits (I think those are in the second one as well? Maybe not? Were those only for the remake?) will make her…

Married now, met in college, so it helps little now, and hopefully never again in the future with any luck, but thanks anyway! I guess she went through some weird "is he really the one?" Crisis because someone at her work out the idea in her head.... And the rest is history. It definitely worked out for the best in…

Ditto. I was expecting a card of some kind, so the PDF I got was a bit of a shocker. I forget what info it lacked to make it not work on Google Wallet, but I found all that other random stuff hiding in various places to try to use it that way. In the end, it felt easier to get games on the eShop that way. Haha. Maybe…

Hard to argue with "people are assholes" on the cheating front. Many years ago, I was in a long distance relationship and was prepared to move across the country to make the relationship work. About a month before that happened, and I suggested I intended to propose upon arrival (it had been about 3 years we were…

I tried to add it to my Google Wallet account, and when it was missing essential information to get it to go through, I flashed back to my days as a cashier at a gas station many moons ago and thought: "Yeah, they'll never go for this, and I don't want to explain why I have Mario Kart money for a gas station. Even I'd…

I wish getting my PhD was that easy. I'll be done with that in about 3 years............. which may explain my penchant for writing extremely long comments around here (liking writing and communicating with the written word way too much, and avoiding the kinds of work I really ought to be doing).

I think a lot of people are making this connection to piracy that I don't know is really the reason for it. It seems more geared by public performance of songs, the sorts of things I'm sure major music labels get tons of money from random places like grocery stores for, since they have to pay to be able to broadcast…

I preordered Mario Kart 8, but exclusively because the reviews had been out for more than a week when I preordered, and I got a $10 gift card from Best Buy for doing it (edit: and the free game promo that was running at the time). Unless a situation is equally cut and dry (undeniably good bonus + game of extremely…