Mister Jack

Scalpers. Fucking scalpers. I can't even sign up for a mailing list to be notified of the Majora 3DS on Amazon because all the units are being monopolized by scalpers! The fucking thing isn't even out yet! I tried to preorder one almost a month in advance and there literally isn't a single store within a hundred miles of me that's getting any more! None! I'M TRYING TO PLAY BY THE RULES HERE. GOD DAMN IT.

Mighty Ethan...Mighty starts with "M" and Ethan starts with "Eth..." If you put those together you get meth! Meth is a drug...drugs are poison...cyanide is also poison! Cyanide...cyanide...sayonara...Sayonara is the japanese word for goodbye! Japan...Land of the rising sun...Sun...Son... Son of Sam? Oh my god! It was so obvious all along! ETHAN IS A SERIAL KILLER.

I don't know what you really mean by "battery stats" but I'm using this one. And no, I'm not rooted.

Well, glad that's all cleared up. Now I just have to wait until the Majora editions start showing up again. I'm sure they'll be back in stock soon. Any day now...

I'm not much of an SNL fan anymore but sometimes they've still got it.

That's another thing. How exactly would I upgrade the SD card in a 3DS? I bought a 32 GB for when I eventually manage to get my hands on the New 3DS, but there's a part of me that's deathly afraid that when I try to upgrade the card I'll lose all my saves and downloads forever because of some Nintendo bullshit I wasn't aware of. Take Animal Crossing for example. I have a lot of time invested in my town. If I do the system transfer before changing SD cards, how can I be sure my town won't be wiped? What's the process?

What if you put a high capacity SD card in the new one before starting it up for the first time? Does that still count as no other cards being used? Fuck, I can't believe I even have to ask questions like this.

I never use bluetooth or wifi, even at home. I have a tablet so there's no need. Hell, I don't even use the location services unless I need a GPS, which is almost never. I also make a habit of routinely killing any background apps I haven't been using for a while, so I rarely have more going on in the background besides Tapatalk, Chrome, and Steam.

I'm pretty sure it's the battery now. I managed to charge it to 100% last night, then I took it with me this morning to drop my car off at the mechanic (AGAIN) and after just an hour it's down to 50%. This is supposed to be a high capacity battery too so that's just inexcusable.

You can trade gems at the antique store for SP items, but I'm not sure that's all that reliable. Later on in the game you can also get skills or items that will regenerate SP for you, so just hold on a bit longer. If you're exploiting weaknesses properly you should still be able to get a good amount of distance before you have to head back to 1F and someone leaves. If you're really getting low, I would recommend just skipping as many fights as you can and make a beeline straight for the boss floor just so you'll have that progress. You can always go back down on another day to grind or look for treasure. I don't believe characters get tired from the dungeons in P4, so you can stay in there for as long as you want. I think you can buy SP items from the store in P4G, but I wouldn't advise it. They're really expensive and the money is better used for other things. Like I said above, just exploit weaknesses like you're supposed to be doing anyway and you should still be able to get a pretty decent number of floors in before you have to turn back. Also, shuffle time has cards that will restore SP for you after fights, and if you're playing it right you should be getting shuffle time fairly often.

I plugged in my phone earlier because it was at 18% battery. The charging light came on and the notification said it was charging, but when I checked on it 5 hours later it was at 12%. The battery isn't that old so I'm wondering if there might be some other reason it isn't charging properly?

See, to me that just reads like an excuse for not bothering to think up anything better. These aren't grand, sprawling vistas we're exploring here. They're narrow corridors. I'm betting the entire series is narrow corridors. The dungeons themselves are not interesting, so I have little reason to bother mapping it out 100% if the game won't even acknowledge I did it. It doesn't even have to be an item like in PQ. Millennium Girl just enables the warping once you finish mapping a floor, which is good enough, but if the game doesn't care that I finished a map, why should I? I will concede two of your points though. Firstly, the characters in PQ are definitely caricatures of their normal selves. Still, there's a mystery at the story's core that makes me curious. It might turn out to be dogshit, but at least for now I want to see where it's going. I also agree that having to physically walk on every tile, even the trap ones, to get 100% is total horseshit. If I draw it right, that should be good enough. Oh, I forgot one other thing that bothered me. No run button? In an RPG? Come on.

Is someone in here doubting Andy Serkis? Because that's a paddlin'.

It only happens when you go back to the first floor. Party members can also become sick, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen until after you leave and they'll be fine if you let them rest for a couple days, so get as much mileage out of Tartarus as you can in one night. The calendar does not give you a lot of free time to build up social links so you don't want to go to Tartarus more than a couple nights a week if you can help it. Considering that, it's not a big deal if party members get sick, although it does mean you can't work on their links until they're well, so you'll have to focus on someone else.

Looks like P5 is set in Shibuya/Tokyo. Social links are back, if there was any doubt, and some dungeons won't be randomly generated. It's interesting how they're bringing back guns and demons. At least, they sure seemed like demons in the trailer. I hope that doesn't mean negotiation is back too, though. That was the main thing I hated in the older games and in SMT since it's nothing but trial and error. Oh, and don't worry too much about fatigue, Kenshi. Not your problem if your party members are being a bunch of bitches. I just wouldn't go to any boss fights with a party that isn't fresh. Aside from that you'll be fine.

Paints floors I guess? I never noticed it doing anything else. In Persona Q and Millennium Girl it paints floors you walk on and draws walls that are directly beside you, although you still have to draw the walls you don't touch as well as fill in all the doors and landmarks yourself, which I don't really mind. Having to stop to draw all the walls after every room is so tedious, though.

How many people have played this? I have a friend who is a total nerd for this series and she swears up and down that EO4 is better than Persona Q, which I am currently playing, but I just don't see it in the demo. No sell all button, inferior mapping tools, auto map doesn't fill in the walls you walk by, no story whatsoever, completed maps yield no rewards, FOEs have the infuriating ability to move during normal battles and can trap you in corners, no mention of being able to skip past completed floors...Am I missing something here? Because I even liked the Millennium Girl demo more than this one.

Destiny has clans now? Like, actual clans?

I don't mean to doublepost, but I wanted to get everyone's input on something. Let's suppose for a moment that I hypothetically knew an algorithm that would let you register a Wii Mini and get an extra 100 coins without actually going out and buying a Wii Mini. Would sharing said algorithm be frowned upon here?

If anyone needs just those few extra Club Nintendo coins to get a download, here's a list of demos that give you a few coins each. http://www.reddit.com/r/Club_Nintendo/comments/2uco1l/chart_documenting_free_eshop_games_that_grant/

I actually like both Pegg and Frost, although I probably haven't seen them in as many things as you have.

Would you say it's a good replacement for Joystiq? I've been looking for a new source for game news and I'm not about to go back to Kotaku.