Mister Jack

Looks like they beat the Safari Zone at least.

I believe it's actually more like 10 seconds now.

The democracy system was implemented specifically for instances like the Safari Zone. If you haven't heard about that, it basically allows two more commands: anarchy and democracy. If enough people vote for democracy at any given time, then the trainer won't do anything until the chat tallies votes on which action he should perform. It slows down the game considerably, but also makes it much easier to guide the trainer through precarious areas. Of course, if enough people vote for anarchy then it goes back to the default mode where the game processes every single command that comes in. The democracy system has been rather controversial, but it does help to prevent more roadblocks like route 9.

The real difference between Marvel and DC is that Marvel made a long term plan that is probably going to last for at least a couple decades, whereas DC is just now trying to play catch up to Marvel but they're not willing to be patient and do it right. At this point I can't see any way that Batman vs Superman won't be a complete disaster

Well...

I finally beat Fire Emblem: Awakening. The story was cliche as hell but the gameplay and characters propped it up so it's all good. Now that I've scratched another one off my 3DS backlog I just have to decide between Pokemon X, A Link Between Worlds, Bravely Default, and Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D.

Here's what I know: - The helix fossil has been deified because it seems like every five seconds Twitch is making Red accidentally go into his inventory and try to use the fossil. It's been likened to the magic conch shell from that one Spongebob episode. - There is a ledge on route 9 that took a full day to walk past because Twitch kept making him jump back down to the lower level. - There was a huge snafu where the need for a Pokemon with surf presented itself and Twitch couldn't agree on whether to take Eevee or Lapras. Eevee fans wanted to buy a water stone and change it to Vaporeon, while the Lapras camp felt that getting that many Twitch users to coordinate on a complex task like buying and using the correct stone was impossible. In the end, they took Eevee and accidentally bought a fire stone and turned him into Flareon. When they tried to deposit him in the PC to make room for something else, they instead accidentally released two of their best pokemon, including their starter Charmeleon. - There is a Rattata who has undone hours of progress multiple times by accidentally using Dig on the map. - Pidgeot is super overleveled because Twitch can't possibly coordinate on switching out other pokemon to share exp.

Has anyone been reading about this Twitch Plays Pokemon thing going on? It's quite a fascinating social experiment, and there has been no shortage of drama and discord throughout the game, especially where Eevee was concerned. Case in point:

The sets were too expensive for my parents to buy when I was a kid.

Okay, I admit it. The Lego Movie was really fun and charming, even though I never owned Legos as a kid.

I can still download them if they're already on my GOG account, right?

I have to admit that before I saw this trailer I didn't give a crap about the Guardians at all but now I think I'm looking forward to this even more than Cap 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZ2Tp9yXyM

Yeah that seems like a real dick move, and the worst part is that there are actually people defending it.

I think I remember the devs insisting at one point that the game wasn't a "third person shooter," so either they were lying or there's more to the game that they haven't shown us yet. I wouldn't mind some genre blending, myself, but I'm not going to get my hopes up right now.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1cjjrl_the-order-1886-merges-cg-and-gameplay-visuals-on-ps4_videogames?start=3 Not exactly a trailer but here's some leaked footage of The Order: 1886 on the PS4.

Valve recently got in some hot water because it was discovered that steam was collecting a user's browser history, even outside of steam. In a surprising display of responsibility, though, Gaben himself descended from the mountaintop to explain it directly. http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_and_trust/

Not only that, but Metal Gear Solid supposedly runs at 1080p and 60 FPS on the PS4 but only 720p and 30 FPS on the Xbone.

I tried to make a ferris wheel one time and I'm pretty sure that I was contemplating suicide by the time I stopped.

If you haven't played LBP you might not appreciate how fucking crazy it is that someone managed to do this, but it is.

I can't fucking believe that Danny has been playing Punch-Out for five episodes now without ever figuring out that you can press DOWN to DUCK. God damn it, I don't know why it's so frustrating to see him flounder about without knowing such a simple game mechanic, but it is. Even a five year old would think to push down at least once just to see if it works. FUCKING PUSH DOWN, DANNY!

I'll have to check it out later. Thanks for the tip. Fortunately, I was already using unique passwords for sensitive things like banks and credit cards (I'm not THAT dumb) so I don't have to worry too much about that, but I'm still going to have to change a lot of passwords.

Oh boy, I get to change all my passwords tonight because kickstarter got hacked. That'll be a hoot and a half. Again. One game. I backed ONE fucking game.