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I've seen more starey gaming pictures:

You look a lot better when you don't look like you're about to murder someone and wear their skin as a suit. [/weird compliment]

Well, maybe you can make your homework gradually more offensive as the semester goes on. And I was only going by what I've heard people say about the Yakuza series. Someone was complaining about how they add so much cursing in the translations, but someone pointed out that the Japanese don't curse a lot, so the translators add cursing to get the same effect for us Westerners who are more used to it. Something like that, anyway. As far as I know, the characters could be cursing all the time!

Isn't cursing in Japanese pretty limited/seriously lame, anyway?

First we find out that Diego has to pretend to be drunk for his friends to want to hang out with him, and now we find out that even then they avoid him whenever possible! "I can't believe you went to the mall without me!" "We spared you from wasting money. Be thankful." "I can't believe you went to an amusement park without me!" "We spared you from getting motion sickness. Be thankful." Why would anyone choose to see this, period? :p

I'm just going to assume that "current state" means "I nursed one beer all night."

I'm not sure why anyone would ever make anything other than cakes. Well, okay, maybe other pastries.

Try to avoid getting hit by any blue shells.

My cousin didn't like it. Which must mean it's awesome!

Well... erm... two of them were a big will they/won't they couple, so Rhimes could have given them a happy ending? Remember happy endings? ER usually did a good job with those. And I don't believe anything Rhimes or anyone else involved with the show says anymore. The actor who died in the season finale had said earlier in the year that she wasn't planning on leaving the show any time soon, then some time after her character died she released a statement saying that she'd decided this would be her last season on the show earlier in the year. The actor who died in the season premiere very suddenly announced between seasons that he'd decided to leave, and now there's a rumor going around that he was let go because of budget cuts. I don't know, I just don't find it likely that every actor suddenly wants to leave the show at the same time, so my guess is they're either being fired to save money or leaving because they didn't get the salaries they were asking for. The show is going into its ninth season and its cast is (was?) huge, and it's at that uncomfortable point where the actors are making more and more money but the show is pulling in less and less viewers. Or maybe Rhimes has just snapped and this'll be the season Daft has been waiting for.

So speaking of Grey's Anatomy and the ever-present shadow of death, the death toll one episode into season 9 is already 1.

I don't remember that scene in the game. Must be from the new DLC.

Well, if nobody's going to guess, I'm just going to go with Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

Well, we're only two episodes into season 9, but... probably not? :p It's been more of a steep decline since season 5 or so, and the show lost all hope of ending on a good note when it kept going after Steve Carell left. And unlike Scrubs, the spin-off will be its own separate entity focusing on just one character going off to run a bed and breakfast, rather than the mess of old and new character the last season of Scrubs was.

I like spoiler tags because it means you can still read the posts that aren't about spoilers. So you can see what the general consensus on The Dark Knight Returns is without having to worry about having the plot spoiled or if someone has a question about an older episode of How I Met Your Mother you can answer it even though you're one week behind, without having to worry about people openly discussing the shocking plot twist where it's revealed that Lily is the mother. Or we could meet the mother at some point during this season, giving them plenty of time to wrap things up without dragging it out for another season. I don't think I could take another season of How I Met Your Mother. It's bad enough NBC decided that The Office just had to have a ninth season. At least How I Met Your Mother probably won't get a spin-off.

There's really no reason to watch Private Practice other than its ties to Grey's Anatomy. While the latter can be soapy fun, Private Practice is neither soapy nor fun. Pretty much the only enjoyable part about the show is how the characters are pretty much black widows. We're introduced to a main character's mother? She dies. Someone's long-time friend? She dies. Someone's ex-girlfriend? She dies. If I knew these characters, I'd run for the hills. Even the poor receptionist died. Actually, Grey's Anatomy keeps killing off family members too, so it must be a Shonda Rhimes thing. :p While I've never watched Warehouse 13, I would just like to state for the record that Eureka is really boring and every episode plays out the exact same way, or at least that was the case when I stopped watching in season 3.

Addison was great on Grey's Anatomy, and then she left for Private Practice and... it's just so boring. So very, very boring. Now there's a show where I'd be more than happy for everyone to die. Though I was excited to watch the sixth season premiere to see how they were going to write off a character after they unceremoniously fired the actor shortly after the end of season five. Mostly I just wanted to see if they were going to send him off to prison forever or kill him off. He had a heart attack off-screen, of course. Seriously, every character Shonda Rhimes touches dies horribly.

Yeah, it's going to be a bit of a cold shower for anyone who started with Mass Effect 2. The Mako's pretty awesome, though.

Well, I have no vested interest in the third-party support on the Wii U and if it doesn't get any of the big multi-platform titles it'll just be that one console that I plug in when there's a new Nintendo game out, just like the Wii was. So if EA decides not to release any of their high-profile games on the Wii U, the only people it'll affect are Nintendo stockholders and people who only own a Nintendo console. Somehow I always find the money to buy every new console eventually despite not having a lot of money, so I'm sure I'll manage.

Well, I for one think this whole thing is hilarious. At first I thought it was a bit weird/stupid to release a compilation of all three games on other systems around the same time as Mass Effect 3 on the Wii U, but the reaction in this thread has been more than worth it. :p All this talk about how "I can't believe they're doing this to us Nintendo fans!" makes it sound like people physically can't buy another system. Like if someone told them that they were huge Nintendo fans but also liked Halo, their heads would explode. Xbox 360s and PlayStation 3s are pretty cheap these days! Way cheaper than a Wii U. If anyone's interested in Mass Effect, you've had five years to check it out. And soon the entire trilogy will be available on three systems! So much choice! I don't know, I kind of feel like if you only own a Wii this console generation, you've made the choice to miss out on pretty much every big multi-platform game. Don't start whining about how you're missing out on Mass Effect when you knew you'd need another system to play it. You've made your bed.

Nobody's going to want to use a hooker who's just going to tell people about it.

Sure, that's cute, but is it cuter than eighteen kitten pictures?

Maybe that's why they broke the maps. Now they can re-release the iPhone S4 and everyone will buy it again.

They've announced an iPhone 4S again? Yeah, that does sound obsolete.