TheMightyEthan

That one tweet by the Washington Post guy says they're going silent until next year, but the people who leaked the info about the Switch (which all turned out accurate) are saying Nintendo will be giving specs/etc by the end of the month.

I haven't gotten to play it yet but from reviews/previews I read it sounded like the AI turns were faster than previous civs.

https://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-switch-not-compatible-with-3ds-nor-wii-u-games-394759.phtml Switch will not play Wii U discs or 3DS cartridges. It's still an open question whether it will support them via the eShop.

I was actually thinking about the disc drive, and how that base station seems weirdly big. What if there's a drive in that for use when it's docked? I doubt it, but with Nintendo you never know.

Oh yeah, there could easily be back compat problems for other reasons, I was just talking about the limitations imposed by the screen situation.

BC should be possible for any Wii U game that supported off-screen play, because it can just treat it like you're always in off-screen mode. You're gonna be SOL for games that didn't support off-screen though, as well as DS/3DS games. I'll be interested to see what they do with Wii games, because theoretically they could let you pair some Wiimotes to it.

It'll arrive tomorrow, I'm just irritated how late in the day it will be.

Apparently Eurogamer is getting info that the tablet screen is 720p, so I'm guessing most games will run at native 720p, which lends support to my guess that there's probably an upscaling chip in the base station to bump it up to 1080p for TV play. A second possibility would be games Switch-ing from native 1080p while docked and outputting to the TV to native 720p while in mobile mode, and that any power boost it gets while docked is used to handle the higher resolution.

The map that was leaked several months ago suggested it's actually centered around Louisiana/New Orleans, with the Great Plains region also part of the map.

Ah, okay, scared me there for a minute.

Wait, did they say you can't have two accounts on a Switch?

Luckily I knew Nintendo's digital policy was shit so I never bought anything digitally from them.

Yeah, I checked and used Wii U's are still selling for surprisingly good amounts, so I think now my plan is to finish Tokyo Mirage and then sell my Wii U and 2DS with an eye toward buying this for Zelda.

Apparently there are hints that additional processing is available when docked. If so I still hold to my original guess that it's probably just a power usage thing and not that there's actually additional processing hardware in the dock itself.

One thing I've seen pointed out on Twitter is that this doesn't look like a fisher price toy, so that's nice.

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It may not have an expandable battery but there could be external batteries built into a controller-holder type thing. Like a power bank.

We also know that either there's a PC version or that trailer was prerendered, cause ain't no way a console got that kind of foliage draw distance.

My guess as to what will be included in the box: console itself (obviously), base station with power brick, the two snap-on controllers, and an HDMI cable. I'm guessing the "pro controller", that other controller thing that you snap the little controllers into, and any mobile (ie non-base-station) charging cord will all be sold separately.

That's the Mario game I wanted on the Wii U. Goddammit! @Dean: We've known it's a Tegra for a long time. @FMW: I'm pretty confident the base really is just a glorified charging station with HDMI ports, and possibly some kind of upscaling chip built in and maybe additional storage space. I doubt there's any actual processing horsepower in the base. If there really is a performance hit when you go mobile it's more likely that it's due to it going into some kind of power save mode when it goes over to battery power. Anyway, as I've said before the PS4+Vita has completely sold me on this thing's premise, I just need to see that it's actually going to be supported now. Also, Switch is a dumb name, but it's way better than Wii U. I would have chosen either Next or simply Nex. I do at least get where they're coming from with the theming between the name and their usage design. *Edit - If by some miracle this thing actually gets wide support from Western 3rd parties then the portability aspect could easily turn it into my go-to console.

Wait, so what timeline is this in? Or did mutants all get "cured" in Apocalypse?

The poll worker has a thing that activates the machine, and then it lets you go through the voting process, and at the end it deactivates and can only be reactivated by a poll worker.

Depends at what level the rigging is occurring. If you've snuck malware onto the voting machines you don't need the cooperation of the secretaries of state. And because of the way the electoral college works if you were strategic about it you wouldn't even necessarily need to do it in very many jurisdictions to change the outcome.

The electoral college is complicated. Various states have different laws binding their delegates to different degrees. For instance some states just say they have to vote a certain way, but provide no penalty if they don't. At least one state has a law that if a delegate votes for anyone other than the candidate who won that vote is invalid and constitutes the delegate's resignation, and the remaining delegates are to appoint someone else to fill the slot. To my knowledge none of them have ever been tested in court so it's unknown how enforceable they are. Each state gets one delegate for each member of Congress it has, so a total of 2 each for their 2 senators, plus however many Representatives they have (based on population). Most states are winner-take-all, so whichever candidate wins the popular vote in that state gets all the delegates from that state, but Maine and Nebraska give their 2 "senator" delegates to the overall state winners and then assign the "representative" delegates based on who won each congressional district.

1. Nearly all votes are cast on computers, and a good chunk of the computers have no paper printout ballot, meaning there is absolutely no way to verify their count, you just have to believe that they counted right. 2. Yeah... 3. Electoral College delegates are bound to vote certain ways based on the outcome in their state, so while the popular vote total for the country as a whole doesn't technically matter the outcomes in each state does. This potentially makes the election more susceptible to rigging though, because if you strategically hack the voting machines in a few key counties in a few key states you can potentially change the outcome of the election without actually altering the national totals very much.