I will still disagree that it was not fun. The first time was an absolute slog, and the second was just to see if I really was just playing wrong. I will bet there’s a sizable group that would agree with me.

I was a $60 backer. Believe me when I say it wasn’t just the Kickstarter stuff that was bad.

That’s Diabet-achu. He can actually learn Cut, but only to amputate his dying appendages.

The second controller almost seems like they wanted to give SteelSeries the finger.

You have every right to be confused about it. These guys belong in a subset of collectibles that you would consider the ‘Rolls Royce/Rolex’ of statues. That price isn’t because they want to sell it, it’s priced because you “want to own it”. I can guarantee you even with GOOD Hong Kong labor/quality, this piece barely…

It’s not really about the product, it’s more about the presentation. I too believe Neti pots are great, but the visual of ‘running water out of nose’ thrown together with the sillyness of the commercial would target all the wrong demographics. It made this article because Japan tends to keep a certain goofiness…

I think it’s just the in-your-face goofiness of the actual process. This commercial would totally not fly in the USA, even though there have definitely been ‘grosser’ ads that made the cut.

Yeps. Cancer got my dad back in July. It’s like this year had a murderous grudge on every single person on the planet.

That’s not really the point I was getting at. Budget tightening on Shantae’s part wouldn’t take away from the fact that WayForward’s overall design and presentation of the game was as expected. Nothing groundbreaking, but a ‘whole’ game through and through. Shantae’s “core” is solid. Mighty No. 9's is not.

Me personally, if MN9 had simply been fun, it would’ve been mildly forgivable. For example, I also backed Shantae: 1/2 Genie Hero, which got delayed almost as many times as MN9. But the key difference of why no one’s blasting Shantae right now is because Shantae delivered. That game is fun, well made, and oozes with…

A lot of people underestimate the sheer horrible craftiness of scalpers when it comes to high demand items. The sadder part is there are totally people out there willing to pay these prices just to make the Christmas ‘deadline’, feeding into this infernal cycle.

Still pretty useful to do these days, I think. Properly rinsed Gunpla kits definitely behaves differently with paint, even though it’s pretty subtle. 

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So... it’s Fahey with some gold beard coloring? I approve.

Methinks it’s a bit harsh to compare ponies to Eric. If we’re really turning Eric into a hoofed animal, I’d most definitely call him a goat: complete with overbite and misdirecting eyes.

And of course, now I realize I’m missing a “don’t” way after the edit window and I look like a complete idiot.

I’m an idiot: I meant to say I feel pretty bad that a LOT of gamers out there DON’T have a place like that.

To this day I simultaneously relish/commiserate that these same people are celebrating the birth of a Jew from two thousand years ago.

I have the privlege of being within driving distance of a place called Yestercade. It’s a true-to-form arcade combined with modern console couch gaming. They carry a whole slew of original and restored arcade machines along with too many pinball machines, including all the games mentioned here in Luke’s piece.

Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta(s) are from Platinum, so they’re the ‘sadistic’ good kind of gane; as in, their Normal is really Very Hard mode. And as for Splatoon, you’d be surprised. There’s no regional division so the majority of the time I’m playing against Japanese players with the occasional European. So there’s…