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If there's one thing I've learned from cooking competitions on television, it's that risottos never turn out well, no matter how good you think you are at cooking.

I like that they changed "50+ Games" to "50 Wacky Mini-Games". I always thought the former seemed dishonest. It's not as colorful as the US cover, but yellow is a nice color, too.

Four Swords Adventures is only the visual pinnacle of 2D Zelda games to the extent that it did things that simply wouldn't have been possible on the GBA. It's not really a fair comparison, and I wasn't a big fan of the lazy reuse of A Link to the Past sprites. I thought The Minish Cap looked great, but I agree that the world felt a bit small and cramped. You have to travel to Death Mountain from Hyrule and it's, like, two screens away or something. I also thought the actual minish cap wasn't that interesting to use, but the game overall was a lot of fun.

Fair enough, I never bought it myself. I just remember thinking it was overpriced for what it was.

It really doesn't, but if you want to be purposely dense and/or you're happy with whatever slop Nintendo throws together in an afternoon and releases at full price to all of its adoring fans who are more than happy to pay for something they already played nearly two decades ago, then I guess that's fine. To be honest, I've never been a fan of the Kirby series, so I have no vested interest in whatever Nintendo decides to do to celebrate it.

At least Parks and Recreation has returned. All is right with the world.

Fixed that for you.

For the record, just seeing a help block is enough to remove the shine from the stars forever (unless you restart your 3DS without exiting the level).

You both just sound like you're high to me.

I wish I could flirt using song lyrics.

Those aren't song lyrics, Peeps.

People in their thirties don't usually die from falling over, Danny. It was probably some sort of undiagnosed heart condition or something.

"Love" is a transitive verb, but we're all used to you by now, Paj. I feel like poor Coolness is getting buried by GIFs and Pajairdriver grammar. I like your shoes, Coolness! Maybe those are what the triangle is pointing to.

I clicked on it but nothing happened.

That's a shame, Goron. If it makes you feel any better, I think half of N-E would like to sleep with you after you've moved on. :p

Anyone else think of Dollhouse when they watched the latest episode?

Depends on who you've had sex with.

Well, I've just watched the latest episode, and it definitely wasn't what I was expecting. :p

Fringe always does that. The seasons always start out really episodic until the plot starts to get going and the end of the season is really exciting and you can't wait to see what happens next season... ... And then the next season starts and it's really episodic again and it takes ages for things to get going. I've learned to just roll with it. It takes them a while to get there, but the destination is usually worth the effort.

Fringe is very episodic in the first season, and the underlying storyline is mostly built up in the background while they deal with the monster of the week. It takes until season two for things to finally start paying off. Season three is just awesome. It really feels like they've had a plan from the beginning, so it'd be a real shame if the show didn't get another season to wrap things up. Now would be a great time to catch up, too, as there have been a lot of callbacks to earlier episodes lately. I hope you didn't jinx it by starting this thread.

That would be hilarious. I'd forgive Nintendo all of their stupid decisions if it turned out they were just intentionally trolling their fans this entire time. "Sir, the fans want Yoshi's Island on the Wii Virtual Console." "Give them Ice Climber. It's basically the same thing." "Sir, the fans want another handheld 2D Metroid game." "MORE KIRBY." "Sir, we'd love to do something to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros." "Ugh, fine. You have one hour!" "Sir, the 20th anniversary of Kirby is coming up and-" "MAKE IT THE BEST COLLECTION EVER."

I'm surprised people are hyped about this after the horrible Super Mario Anniversary Edition. :p I expect this will be, like, three of the oldest games running on an emulator and a compilation video. Maybe they'll throw in a copy of Kirby Air Ride just to troll people.

The DS game was trash/disappointing, but the Wii game was better. I hope this continues the trend (are two games a trend?). I can live with rehashed graphics if the gameplay is fun.

That seems a bit overly optimistic when it won't be released in Japan until fall, Canand. :p

Meh, only for Danny.