I mean, on the internet, not on this site. Was this last year sometime? They already had a name, why did they need a new one?

So, Nintendo just shut down DS card production, which means no more DS games will be manufactured from this point on. This comes on top of shutting down the DSiWare store a little while back, so you can't download games to a DSi either, only play card games or games already on the system. Of course 3DSes can play most DSiWare games and the games are still available in the 3DS eShop, but still, it's sad to see... and terrible for preservation of course, with how not all DSIWare games also run on the 3DS, apparently. When the 360, PS3, Wii, Vita, and 3DS online services get shut down that will be far worse, but this is a reminder that that happens eventually, as much as people like me who care about maintaining access to all games don't like that. I just hope that consoles never get so secure that they can't be hacked...

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/its-the-...intendo-ds

The Nintendo fired someone and it isn't entirely clear as of yet why she was. All that's known is she was recently being targeted as the source of recent "censorship controversy" and large numbers of people were demanding she be fired. Some suggested she was a pedophile, which seems the height of hypocrisy considering that all the recent censorship hangups have been DUE to Nintendo cutting out content that sexualized young girls.

http://kotaku.com/nintendo-employee-term...1768100368

I for one believe the majority of these people demanding a company sacrifice are probably on the younger side. I see a lot of people saying Nintendo USED to put much "edgier" content in their games (as though edginess is what's at issue here), and don't seem to realize just how much worse NOA used to be with their censorship policies. They're as open as they've ever been, but when games seem to explicitly be designed to sexualize underaged girls, that's a problem that needs to be dealt with. These people give me the creeps.

Batman v Superman is not a super hero movie. It's a disaster movie where the disasters have feelings, and that's the best one can say. You can't look up to these characters, you can only try to get out of their way.

It's not even trying to be uplifting. It's trying to be as grim and bleak as it possibly can. Watchmen did too, but that actually had a point, and human characters. This movie, with every single line, seems to scream at you that "morality is a lie and everyone is just as dark and twisted inside as me, Zack Snyder!". This culminates in a line from Superman, "No one stays good forever". What kind of ethos leads someone to write that? That's quite possibly the worst thing I've ever heard! What does that even MEAN? I've known PLENTY of people who "stayed good forever". I mean, it's not hard, you just don't frickin' hurt people until you die! I mean, I can imagine a line like that in some detective noir movie set in the slums of New York, but can you really imagine, say, a farmer wiping the sweat off his brow, looking out at a field after a hard day's work, waving his son over and telling him in a somber voice: "No one stays good forever."

Very cool to see a character from the best 2d Zelda game in the game... yes, she's been anime-ized, but still, it's cool to see.



Versus LA art:



Yup, a definite downgrade here versus the original LA artwork. Ah well.

Oh, and Hyrule Warriors Legends for 3DS just released, with Linkle and such. I have a New 3DS of course, so I will have to get this eventually, even if the gameplay is simplistic Musou button-mashing and nothing more... but which to get first, this or Triforce Heroes? I still don't have that one.

http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/25/1130369...oller-hoax

It looked futuristic, but also ridiculous. Nintendo has been pretty adamant about keeping physical buttons. I can't imagine they'd ditch them entirely unless they had figured out a way to get tactile feedback from a touch screen (I still think such a thing might be possible in the future, but not today). Fortunately, it's been revealed as a blatant hoax. Whatever the NX turns out to be, I'll wager it'll have physical buttons.

http://www.retrocollect.com/News/nintend...idges.html

Now, some people (mostly people who dislike the N64) think this hack that removes anti-aliasing improves N64 graphics. I strongly disagree, all those horrible jaggies in N64 screenshots and videos are so painful to look at! Graphics are about far more than just N64 haters' obsession with bashing its blurred textures, and disabling the anti-aliasing is good evidence for that. Blurred textures are a far less bad thing than screens full of jaggies.

Now of course, I support Hillary, but regardless of that the constant attacks, insults, Republican-fueled lies... it's a real issue.

So I voted in the Maine caucuses back on Sunday, March 6th. I arrived, then spent a full 3 1/2 hours waiting in line (CRAZY turnout here in Portland!), then 1 1/2 more hours waiting because I decided to stay for the actual caucus instead of just doing it as an absentee ballot, then finally the caucus.
I got there at one and finally left at seven... that's a long time to vote. We need to get rid of caucuses, they're absolutely terrible, this much waiting is unacceptable. It was all broken up into different rooms by district and precinct, and in mine only 13 people actually stuck around for the actual caucus, versus several hundred who left absentee ballots.

While I was waiting in that line outside for 3 1/2 hours, the group in front of me were some diehard Bernie fans who amused themselves by saying how much they disliked Hillary (and wanted Bernie to win by the largest margin possible, etc, etc), expecting/hoping she will be indited and charged over her various 'scandals', etc, etc. I didn't say much because arguing with people that dedicated didn't seem worth it, but it was pretty obnoxious. They were far from the only ones like that, too. For another example, there was a guy who walked past outside with a homemade "Hillary for Prison" sign. At the DEMOCRATIC caucus. Nice. They also said that they'd leave absentee ballots, once they finally got in.

Now, once the caucus FINALLY got underway, my precinct ended up being about 71% Bernie, 29% Hillary, including all of the absentee ballots. This meant 21 state convention delegates for Bernie, and 8 for Hillary. Of the 13 people who actually stayed, though, it was 7 for Bernie and 6 for Hillary. (I supported Hillary.) So, of the state convention delegates we were assigning, Hillary and Bernie each got five. Bernie's campaign will have to do some calls or something to find people to fill the rest of those spots, if he wants that margin of victory to actually matter. Heh. While I didn't guess it would be that close beforehand (I thought Bernie would have more), I wasn't shocked; the stereotype is of course that Hillary supporters are more likely to be more dedicated to the party, and I think that's exactly what you saw there. That's why I stayed, certainly... and the same for some of those others. Both of the volunteers running the caucus were pro-Hillary as well. And of course most elected Democratic officials nationwide have endorsed Hillary, though some have endorsed Bernie as well, including several significant Maine Democratic figures. Oh yeah, and one guy there said that he had been undecided until 20 minutes before getting inside, but the sheer amount of obnoxious stuff the Bernie fans were saying convinced him to support Hillary. After having experienced that stuff outside myself as described above, I could understand why. So yeah, basically the Bernie-fan stereotype is not exclusively an internet phenomenon.

As for caucuses in general though, yes, there is some value to them. It lets you have actual conversations with people, including elected officials and party members, and that's a good thing. But as much as I did like that element of caucusing, having to wait hours and hours before you even get in the door (and then hours more once you get in, if you want to actually caucus) is absurd. It's never, ever like that in this state in normal elections, Maine is not one of those places with hours-long waits at regular polling places, and it doesn't have to be this way, we need to go back to primaries. Caucuses only work in off-years when only a couple hundred people go, they do not work in presidential years in anywhere with a larger population.

(Oh, I asked, and apparently Maine uses caucuses now in part because the state has to pay the bills for a primary while the parties pay for caucuses, so it's financially advantageous for the state to hold caucuses instead of primaries. After the debacle that was this years' caucus, though, there is a push to go back to primaries. I certainly hope it happens.)

Last, after Hillary's sweep last Tuesday, the party pretty much has our nominee. I was happy to see that, though of course I like Bernie as well. We just need to win, fascistic hate cannot be allowed any further success here!

What happened, did someone forget to pay the bills? I, at least, missed TC badly these past few weeks! I was getting worried about if it'd be back at all, but I'm quite glad it is. :D

... On that note, I hadn't made a backup of the database since 2012. I need to correct that. :p