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Rogue Legacy, all the time, Rogue Legacy. Something about rogue-likes really draws me in. I think in part it's that if you suck at them long enough you eventually get OP to a point that it doesn't matter that you suck. And then you hit a new area where it suddenly does matter again. It also doesn't bother me when I screw up like it does in other games. Every now and then I do dumb stuff like forget to spend my money before going back into the castle, or forget to lock the castle with the architect normally it'd make me want to quit out of frustration with myself, but with rogue-likes I just shrug my shoulders and get back into it.

Limiting production runs on special editions is sensible, it drives up demand for the special edition, provided that you have an alternate product (which they do in the 3DS/3DSXL). Nintendo limiting stock in channel generally is also a sensible move, it's one of the reasons for the Nintendo premium (along with fewer releases, not doing yearly iterations, and not doing online stuff) since retailers aren't left holding palettes of stock that they need to shift when the next lot comes in. And yeah, investors aren't normally dumb enough to be sold on a 100% headline, they'd look at the actual numbers too.

If the Toyota is crashing every 5 minutes I'm thinking that's on Mal. lol I assumed it was the ASUS Tabtop... Laplet... thing.

Agreed, as a general rule, if the thing I bought that is supposed to work for hours at a time and crashes after five minutes, I take it the hell back. In other news, I don't recall this cyberdyne systems model...

I forgot about this thread. We were so "about ethics in games journalism" before it was cool.

Hitman doesn't look awful.

I don't think the majority of people would care if they kept him as Peter Parker and made him black just like most people don't give a crap that Nick Fury is played by Samuel L Jackson. There will be the hardcore nerds who bleat about Jonny Storm being black now who will do the same about Peter Parker, but they can take a running jump so far as I'm concerned, and we all know they will watch the film regardless because they are hardcore nerds. Please don't let it be any of the Smith family though.

^What he said^

Yeah yeah, so I got "new" and "knew" mixed up. That's no reason to back into a hedge...

because he is hella ugly and doesn't work in French cinema. What about Steve Buscemi?

I had an issue with Media Server a while back. A corrupt media file somewhere was causing some sort of background process to fail which kept the phone awake. Burned through the battery in about 10hours.

Fast and Furious, 5? I think, the one where they drag a safe around. There was a hilarious bit where they raced a 1/4 mile for $1million. The race took around 1 minute. By my calculations, that makes for an average speed of around 15mph. Furiously fast by anyone's standards. The constant and painful use of the word "dog" by Paul "whitest man in the universe" Walker made me grind my teeth to stumps in about the first 10 minutes. The constant "banter" got to the point where almost every other line in the film was someone talkin' sass. It was an awful awful film. If I had been involved in this film and knew I had another two on the cards, I'd be severely tempted to drive a Porsche Carrera GT into a concrete lampost and a couple of trees in the hope that the collision would be fatal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtkNFtMvNUU#t=1m17s EDIT: I misspelled "knew".

Settings -> Battery See what is the biggest power drain (after screen obvs).

One of the few games where I did all the seemingly impossible challengey bits and unlocked the OP chicken costume.

Cue: Burns' Slant-Lunar Mining Co.

It would be like claiming you are part of a person because you donated blood, or a kidney.Yes, technically speaking, your DNA is inside another person and it is keeping them alive, but that doesn't make you *part* of them. Unless you have grafted on a whole arm of course. Then you sort of are that person... for... reasons...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31069173 MPs vote in favour of donating mitochondrial DNA.

I love the EA bit at the front. The revenue grab I'm in two minds about. The approval is where this really troubles me. YouTubers are perceived as being more genuine than traditional paid channels. The idea of a publisher/developer paying a YouTuber *and* having creative control is an anathema. It totally breaches that trust.

I think Ethan is right, and that DMCA's presumption of guilt (for want of a more nuanced description) was what empowered the © holders. The alternative still favours copyright holders as, by and large an individual is not going to have the resources to effectively see off a legal challenge from an outfit with as much clout as Nintendo. If you are sued and given the options of 1) Pay a bit (or if you are lucky nothing) and stop now; 2) Pay a lot and stop later (assuming no interim injunctions) or 3) "Only" pay your legal costs and carry on after a protracted legal battle with appeals and what not looming over you. Most people would, I think, choose option 1.

Sure, just speculating on how it is handled. If it autosaves, then you should be ok. Seems that you would be able to save-scum it in any case, which is a little naughty, but, eh, you're only cheating yourself.

Pretty sure it is option b. If you quit, then the game is saved. If you get spotted the game is over. Guessing it works like FTL where when you load a save, it gets deleted.

UK Comedian Al Murray's Pub Landlord persona polling higher than shadow party leader Milliband, right wing racist party leader Farage, and bumbling "Deputy Prime Minister" - lol Clegg. http://www.hotwirepr.co.uk/blog-gb/news-gb/al-murray-make-better-prime-minster-ed-miliband-nick-clegg-nigel-farage-according-uk-residents/

I completed the main story of DanganRonpa 2. It scratched the Phoenix Wright itch I've had since abandoning DS. Still plenty to do with Island mode, Novel mode, etc but it's going to go on the backburner now that I've got Grim Fandanging to do.

I downloaded this last night too. Can't wait to play it!

Playing through Danganronpa 2. Quite enjoying it, even if it is a bit leery sometimes. Only one of the puzzles so far has made me want to take a trip to the developers and slap them in the face.