Had to confirm that it was an E rating and not KA. Checks out.

The only way you can get me to stick up for "games are art" people is to force me to listen to "games are not art" people.

One small but important detail in MvC3 was that any attack that caused a capture state (like cinematic supers) was immune from time over; if the hit landed before 00, then you got the full damage.

It was funny watching matches in SF4 where certain ultras became unusable in the last 10 seconds.

My understanding is that it had a low to modest print run and low expectations.

Initially I think it was even planned to be an online store exclusive but was given a normal retail release due to higher than expected interest from preview coverage.

This is me with beat-em-ups and how I'm less harsh on Konami's culturally popular tie-in games than I used to be.

Are they shallow compared to the real genre standouts? Yeah. But I'm also capable of admitting that in an audio-visual medium, style can also be substance.

This game's target audience really is just "me, specifically."

Had this line always been there?

Maybe it just slipped by me but I don't remember this on the DS.

Kind of reminds me of my half-joking half-serious belief that "every button on the microwave other than '+30 SEC' is superfluous.

Oh this one's good.

It'd be the exact kind of thing they'd put out themselves if it wasn't just a little too clever for them.

That's just Battle Mania. You can't fool me.

Idk that seems kind of on brand.

Also makes me wonder if Tommy is his real name.

This year I replaced the batteries for about a dozen cartridges I'll probably never play again.

I think a lot about how Candidate Obama was a tier above every other major presidential candidate in my lifetime, even though President Obama was about as bog standard Dem as they come.

The party can't even meet that bar. Can't just lie to our faces and sell us out afterward. It's perplexing.

The Republican base is basically the opposite of the silent majority, and the party has figured out that they only really need to cater to and mobilize that subset.

The Dems are too terrified of alienating anybody (well, big donors mostly) to actually mobilize a voter base of their own.

Like do you have any idea how unlikeable of an executive you have to be to the point where I'm rooting for Apple to crush you?

What a bleak world.