One thing I learned is to not using a meme as a punchline. If the meme is little know, the joke will go over people's heads and if it's too well know people will be sick of it. Hitting the sweet spot is mostly luck.

Worse, some people just deeply dislike memes so using one will always bother them.

Still, you can hide a meme on the back of a panel or something like that, and I think it's a nice use of it for people who know and enjoy memes, but just repeating it hardly works.

It's not even winter yet and it's already chilling here.

I just want to hibernate now.

Zzzzzzz….

I like Orcs Must Die. It's not my favorite series of all time but it gets the job done. I like the graphics, the goofliness, the gameplay and the characters. Well, the protagonist may get a bit obnoxious from time to time but it's part of his charm I guess.

So when i heard Orcs Must Die Unchained was supposed to be some weird PvP game with MOBA elements my interested instantly vanished. Unless you are Dota I have no interested in a genre with such a steep learning curve.

For me, OMD was above all a PvE game where I could practice orc genocide at my own pace without something calling me names because I picked Tar Trap instead of the arrow one.

So I'm glad to find it looks like the whole moba thing is gone and they are back to the classic gameplay. The game was released this week (with surprisingly little fanfare) and is also Free to Play so if you like the series there is little holding you in giving it a try.

Let me open saying I don't care about Mario Kart 8 auto-steering. You can disable it and play the usual way if so you wish, and you' ll probably do.

I also don't care it's turned on by default. People who care about it will find the menu eventually, and people who would enjoy it are not the kind of people who would dig menus for that kind of option.

If anything, I found it smart of Nintendo do put such an option. This allow people of different skills (for example, a family or a large group of friends) to play together. The veterans will breeze but someone who never touched the game can finish the course without hitting every guard rail on the way.

I believe poor Nintendo is fucking afraid of releasing a new Metroid game.

It's even possible to launch a Metroig game which would make people happy? Unless it's Breath of the Wild good people will find something to complain. Not retro. Too retro. Samus too talky, Samus too quiet. New NPC sucks, new gameplay is not good, etc.

Or they could pick the same man-hour and launch a Mario / Animal Crossing / Zelda / Splatoon or even risk something new which isn't tainted by negativity at this point.

If I was Nintendo, I would just bid my time and work on other stuff instead of risking a financial loss on a IP which seen to only bring complains.

The woes of Samus continues…

If you don't know about that couch, you are a pure person. :)

Poor Samus had to strip a lot on her Nintendo days, so don't blame her for expecting this to be part of a job interview.

Zamus the Huntress joins the party… at least until she needs to blow up a planet again.

Dota 2 is suffering from the same problem which plagued TF2 which is cosmetic abuse.

Different from TF2, which had some questionable choice of cosmetics (like THAT demoman glasses) the problem in Dota 2 is particles.

The higher rank on item can have particles, which may be anything from smoke trails to burning flames, and usually is tied to the equipment. A sword will turn into a flaming sword, a helmet into a flaming helmet, and so on.

So what happen when every single piece of equipment have particle? You end up looking like a walking glitch, poping sparkles everywhere. Doesn't help some spells also add particles like Ion Shell and Aphotic Shield. Mix it all and you see where I am coming.

It's interesting to not one reason for auras in Dota2 to not have an visual effect was to avoid visual clutter but we are getting there anyway with just cosmetics.

I know some players don't mind and they are cool with their characters looking like 4th of July is this means they would grab more attention but for me, they are a visual aberration which I could live without.