By popular request, concealed a spoiler. ...really? http://www.intentionallyblank.net/images/lp-suikoden/lp-suiko0019.png You have a name! You must be important! Not just a name but an actual PORTRAIT. This has to be one of the first games that had important characters' portraits appear with their ...

Judge rules it's okay for Sheriff Joe to shackle pregnant women.

...A US District judge. Damn. That means he won't be on the ballot in November.

I think the Nintendo dpad patent expired recently, so that's why MS isn't still using their horrid revision. Doubt it's that; US patents expire at 20 years. (There are options for review and extension, but only for patents filed after 1995.) If I'm not mistaken, Nintendo first used the plus-shaped ...

Because when I want to convince people to buy things from me, the first word I choose is "unscrupulous".

I guess I see what you mean; everybody SAYS they want another game like Chrono Trigger but even as western-style RPG's are bigger than ever, JRPG sales are on a major decline. As far as stripmining somebody else's game to cash in with a cheap knockoff, it's a poor choice. It'd be a good project for ...

Something that starts with "M" soit doesn't fuck his name up in the sequel.

Also this one time I created a thread for the little absurdities in life and everybody just kept talking about pc gamepads. Yeah when I read Brent's post on PS3 pads I actually was briefly confused and wondered if he'd posted it in the wrong thread. Might be a good idea to rename the thread, maybe ...

Healy wrote:Sometimes the hardest thing to rip off well is great design.

Sure, but it's easy to rip off great design poorly, and yet nobody even seems to be doing that.

I am unfamiliar with Tegan and Sarah and all I could think about were the Fourth and Fifth Doctor's companions. Which I knew couldn't be right.

It often amazes me how some very advanced and interesting game concepts have already been explored in twenty year old games without ever being revisited. I'm surprised by how influential Chrono Trigger's been in some ways and how people have completely ignored its mechanics in others. I can't think...

This week's episode may have been the best yet. In that I only hated the first and third act and actually managed to enjoy most of the second.

I'll add my voice to this assessment. PS4 pad on PC rules the roost. Go here for the xinput wrapper. It works as a direct input device just fine, otherwise. Good to know. I've been keeping an eye out for when MS releases XB1 controller drivers for Windows, since its D-pad looks better than the 360'...

Okay, new thing. Is it possible to remove the thing that automatically truncates URLS if it deems them "too long" I vote we keep the thing that discourages people from posting inappropriately long straight links. I dunno, the convention on the internet is that outgoing links almost always...

Man, this is the most banal fucking pharma spam I've ever seen. How bad is the economy that spambots are actually advertising amoxicillin? That shit's like five bucks a bottle at a REGULAR pharmacy, without insurance.

I've got some fluticasone around here somewhere.

Oh, is that why those icons are still orange? Yeah, we should fix that.

Wait, are you sure you mean mousepad?

Defenestration wrote:Personally, I'm in favor of leaving the filter on since it will encourage people to read at work.

Either you're joking or you're misapprehending the utility of swear filters.

Have you actually read this thread?

With the filter turned on?

And I am further seconding that we get links to auto open in new tabs. Disagree. I want to control where my links open, not have someone tell me where they should open. Forcing a link open in a new tab is trivial; forcing it to open in the current tab is not. I think this is a phpBB thing, but the ...

I've suspected for awhile that the issues I've been having with OpenSUSE aren't actually OpenSUSE problems but signs of a failing drive. They are entirely consistent with what I'd expect from a failing hard drive -- occasionally corrupt files, frequent issues fixed by either an fsck or reinstalling ...

Yeah, this is a "What I Learned Today" reprise thread.

Anyway: Jack Kirby worked on Popeye cartoons at Fleischer Studios.