This apparently works very well. With Windows 7, it was hard to set it but could be done in registry. Windows 8 made it even harder, so this tool is a boon.
Alongside that, MS is releasing a service pack down the line that will finally put the start menu back into the "desktop mode" of Windows 8. I was all for revising the "desktop" paradigm, but MS screwed up the design of the new Windows 8 interface. It is ideal for touch screens, but very poor for mice. Glad they are fixing this. It was the thing that kept me from upgrading to the new OS.
Instead, there'll just be private media and business briefings, and some Nintendo Directs or something. Details to be announced. Their excuse is that they want people to play the games instead of just presenting them, but seriously... the press conference is important! If they really don't have a conference, while MS and Sony do, it won't look good for Nintendo, for sure. Hopefully they come up with something interesting, though... Nintendo Directs are okay, but don't have the excitement or attention of a full-on press conference. E3 tried this "scale down" thing several years back, but it didn't work. I kind of hope this doesn't work too, so we get full-scale Nintendo press conferences again... though at least a live Nintendo Direct, or something, would be good. I just don't want it to be only preshot videos, they aren't quite as interesting.
Boston is only a couple of hours south of here, it was a bit scary...
It was impressive how the younger one managed to hide for so long against such a massive police presence and while injured, but they got him in the end, and alive! It's great that he was taken alive. Much better than killing him. As for the older brother... taking him alive would have been good too, but he does seem to have been a committed Islamist, of the two, and probably was the one who came up with the idea in the first place... and he had a suicide bomb with trigger tied to his stomach, so it doesn't seem like he wanted to live. In comparison the younger brother didn't have one. In comparison the younger brother mostly seems to have just been influenced by his older brother, who he looked up to... though that's no excuse for what he did, that's for sure. I mean, particularly if they can prove that he put down one of those bombs...
Still though, it's too bad that he was too young and stupid to realize what a terrible decision he was making, in going along with his brother. But "stupid" is definitely a part of it. I mean, two days after the bombing, he was... back at college, going to classes and a party? Really?
I mean, it is good that Nintendo went back on their original statement and went ahead and made the thing for the super sized 3DS, but it also leaves open the simple problem that they should have simply worked the extra stick and buttons into the remodel from the very start. They claim they would have needed to shrink the battery to make it fit, but I wonder about that myself. I don't know that the circle pads are that deeply set into the 3DS that they would actually take up the battery space. And yes, it does appear that Monster Hunter basically forced their hand with this remodel. Yes, Monster Hunter, the series that forced Nintendo to remodel the Wii Classic Controller, make the FIRST circle pad pro, and now this XL/LL sized version. It's just THAT popular in Japan.
This is very interesting. This is a formula someone has found which chemically removes the oxidization from plastic. It does not put a coat on it, or alter the plastic fundamentally, it just reverts the chemistry back to how it was before all that oxygen yellowed or browned the plastic.
It isn't being sold, it can be made yourself using the listed ingredients. The results this shows are very impressive. I wish to make some of this myself for a few things I own, most notably my SNES. The top half is yellowed, the bottom half is not. Apparently the batches of plastic originally used came from two different factories for each "half".
Capcom, lower your expectations! I have nothing more to say here than I already said before, except to add that if their insanely unrealistic expectations are why we aren't getting Monster Hunter Portable 3rd or Megaman Legends 3, then Capcom, this is why you lost Inafune, and why Inafune is making Bugs vs Tanks (amazing! I don't even know what that means, and it is amazing), and also some game with animal pirates. I loved Claw, that is my response to that announcement.
Link to the Past sequel? Cool, but that's what the Oracle games and Link's Awakening are. This seems to take place before all of those though. It almost certainly will not feature Ganon.
It looks like Earthbound will finally be rereleased. Here's hoping they altered nothing, to finally kill off those ridiculous eBay prices.
Nintendo Channel
News Channel
Forecast Channel
Everybody Votes Channel
Mii Contest Channel
Data exchange with Wii Friends*
* Exchange of Wii messages on the Wii Message Board, exchange of Mii characters on the Mii Channel and message/data exchange within some games will be disabled.
They turn off June 28th this year. I don't care much about most of those, because I never use them, but I did use the Nintendo Channel some, so it'll be too bad to see that go away. There was some good stuff there, both in the videos and in the DS demo downloads.
A french report indicates he's "considering" it, but wow, that would have to be one ambitious kickstarter. The first two games had insane budgets, and considering just how detailed the world of Shenmu is (it has to use the FREE system to satisfy fans, and that means almost everything you see needs to be interactible, from drawers to random plates on a shelf), I wonder if they'll be able to go for a lower budget with a new one...
