I'm wiling to bet that Dragon's Crown sells significantly better than any of Vanillaware's other games here in part because of this whole 'controversy'.  After all there's no such thing as bad publicity, and Vanillaware has always struggled with obscurity.  The hardcore fans will buy it anyway, and lots of people who probably never would have even heard of the game before know about it now.  If even a small percentage of them think, "hey that looks like fun," and try the game out it will make a difference.

That sucks, Klyde.  Back injuries are the worst.

From a Gearbox employee, the company responsible for games like Duke Nukem Forever...

I posted that like two weeks ago in the Youtube thread, Dice.  Get with the program! ;)

The delicious irony.

When I got to the point where the guy wrote, "I mean can I research DRM or something..." I was laughing out loud.

My big beef with the Nexus 4 is that it's limited to 16 gigs of non-expandable storage, which frankly I find completely unacceptable.  Heck, my current phone is almost 4 years old and it came with 32 gigs on-board and a micro-SD slot.  How can anyone sell a supposedly high-end phone with only 16 gigs today?  What was Google thinking...OK, I know what they were thinking.  They want to push their cloud services so they don't want people to have a lot of local storage.  But I don't want to play that game.

Best Nendoroid ever.

When I unplugged my phone from the charger this morning I found that the micro-USB port on the phone came out with the plug.

Whoops.

Guess it's time for a new phone.  Actually it's been time for a new phone for a while, this thing was already pretty beat up.  I've been looking at all the latest Android gadgets but I just can't seem to find anything I like.  The things I want out of a phone don't really seem to be what's trendy...

I guess I could just get an S4 or something, but man I hate Samsung's shitty software.  Why can't they just leave Android alone?  I think Sony's Xperia Z looks pretty sweet (and I've never been a fan of Sony's phones before), but for some inane reason they don't seem to have any plans to release it in the US, despite the fact that it's already out everywhere else in the world.  I could import it, but it won't have the right frequencies for the faster data options.  Then there is the HTC One which looks OK but it has the shittiest battery life of the bunch (and all of them are pretty shitty in that respect...nobody makes phones with decent battery life anymore).

And of course none of these phones have keyboards.  Nobody makes phones with keyboards anymore!  But I like keyboards!

Actually, no, half of them are in June.  I guess you're right that July is a slow month...but then so is April.

Muramasa Rebirth, The Last of Us, Dragon's Crown, Tales of Xillia...

I don't know about you, but there are more games I want coming out this summer than in the oh-so-important "holiday season"...

Man, I don't follow this crap at all.  I didn't even know about it.  God damn why do people care bout this shit so much...

Japan has this weird fixation that all female pop stars need to be 'pure', and fans get incredibly upset if they're not (or rather if it's found out that they're not, because realistically who is...).  It's this giant mass delusion.  I can't believe that anyone is really dumb enough to believe that all idols are virgins, it's just that they need to keep up the act that they are so there's plausible deniability or something.  It's fucked up.

Now from what I've read technically she was only fired from her music label and can still do voice acting, but then there's such a 'stigma' on her now that it's really up in the air whether anyone will hire her...

Well that's true by definition.  A blackout means alcohol-induced memory loss, so if I've never had alcohol-induced memory loss then I can't have been "blackout drunk".

However your statement carries the implication that this is an issue of the quantity of drinking, and I can only assure you that it is not.  I have been as drunk as a human being can get while remaining conscious and still remembered every detail.  I've been drunk enough to lose consciousness...I'll confess that I do not have memories of events that occurred while unconscious, however I still remember the events leading up to that point.

Blackouts do not occur uniformly in all people.  This has actually been scientifically researched.  There is something called "predisposition to blackouts"...which I don't seem to have any of.

Yaoi fangirls already love the damn show and it hasn't even aired yet.  It doesn't take much...

That doesn't always work.  I, for one, have perfect memory of everything I've ever done while drunk.  Whether I want to remember it or not...

I generally like KyoAni's stuff, but then they're usually doing adaptions of material that's already pretty good to start with.  They are mostly known for their animation quality more than their writing.  Their latest show, Tamako Market, is I believe the first original work and I have to say I thought it was extremely disappointing.  Boring characters, confused tone, didn't really feel like it knew what it wanted to be.

This Free thing is also an original work, I believe.  I wonder if they'll do any better this time...

And when is KyoAni going to do more Haruhi?  There is still a ton of material from the novels just waiting for it...