I am a giant advocate for installing a bidet in your home toilet. The cold water ends up being therapeutic and you get used to it after one or two times. I just got two of these for my apartment and have really gotten spoiled by them. Raw, dry toilet paper is such a bad idea to me now. This works so much better.
New judgmental and opinionated Jeff I don't like, asserting truly ignorant statements about aspartame with ridiculous arguments, like "they tested the shit out of it". I think Dan, Drew and Brad need to step up and call out his BS. That's just a thing that happens people get caught up in their own BS-rhetoric, but then someone close has to step in.
It took the cigarette industry 50 years of deliberate protraction to admit that cigarette smoke causes cancer. And the sugar industry has yet to admit, that increased sugar content of "ready to eat" products, such as snacks, fast food and convenience products, is responsible for both the obesity and type-2-diabetes worldwide epidemics.
Also, the food industry can't be held responsible for people overeating. Their job is to sell food. Sugar is completely fine in moderation. Obesity isn't an "epidemic" in that it's not a communicable disease and is caused by personal choices.
Don't even know why I'm responding to this...apart from accusing Jeff of being ignorant and then throwing around debunked and misleading claims.
I've said it elsewhere, but Star Fox 64 + the narrative structure of the Zero Escape games would be an excellent way to make the repetition really worth it.
I really liked Star Fox and 64, even appreciated Adventures as a huge Rare fanboy back in the day, but the series just hasn't found a way to stay relevant. I like the characters and structure but they always go for something weird with the gameplay that screws it all up.
Star Fox 64 was wildly interesting back when it came out. The branching paths actually changed what happened in missions and the ending. The repetition was actually fun.
I actually had an idea about what Star Fox could do to become interesting. It could do a bigger branching-paths thing like 64, but with a weird time travel Zero Escape style story at the core that requires varied playthroughs. That way there would actually be a compelling reason to try different things.
EDIT: I credit Star Fox 64 and Mario 64 as being the games that made an N64 an absolute must-have for me. The demo kiosks at every store had Star Fox running and it was super impressive. I don't know what Jeff's jaded weird perspective is coming from.
Nintendo said that you could moonlight only if the second job didn't conflict with Nintendo interests and Alison Rapp herself said herself that she had a lot of warnings about a lot of her behavior in Nintendo, so is was not only the internet witch hunt. Also, nice to no mention the thesis guys, the one that it was in her online curriculum. (otherwise, was a nice neutral conversation, Jeff is right that there is a lot we don't know to even lay blame in Nintendo outside usual corporation BS)
I seem to recall seeing a bunch of tweets from her and her thesis being in support of pedophilia, or relaxed social and legal norms with relation to those things. Seemed like a sick lady, notwithstanding the gross internet trolling she received. She really didn't seem to fit with Nintendo at all, whatever they said about her firing. I don't see anything disgusting or problematic about her being let go, even if it was something that led to her firing.
I really can't get behind the argument they're making about Super Mario Galaxy/2 being just more of the same. They're only mildly mechanically connected to Mario 64/Sunshine but go in a wildly unique direction. I think they are two of the finest video games ever made, versus Twilight Princess which felt like a boring retread of ideas and Skyward Sword that was woefully misguided and badly paced.
Jeff and Brad have the dumbest perspective on Nintendo games and it's an insanely inconsistent viewpoint to what they tend to be into. It's getting really grating. I sure miss Ryan balancing out their buffoonery because what they were saying was straight up stupid. And Dan is way too chaotic and inarticulate to argue in favor of those.
Gah, I get that they don't know everything about every game, but the sheer magnitude of their ignorance about anything and everything relating to Pokémon (even the original 151 - Machamp and Gengar are originals!) is a little painful.
I get it, I was 10 years old right at the start of the Pokémon craze so I was perfectly positioned to be a fan. But c'mon, it's one of the biggest video game franchises ever and they know almost nothing besides Pikachu.
The GameCube had Metroid Prime, Smash Bros Melee, Wind Waker, Pikmin, Resident Evil 4...I wouldn't count some of the best games ever made for/by Nintendo to be a "dark time for Nintendo." I actually liked the GameCube's lineup much more than the Xbox and PS2 even if the PS2 had dramatically MORE good games on it.
The Wii and the late DS lifecycle put me off Nintendo for 5-6 years. As a seriously devoted Nintendo fan, only the absolute PERFECTION that was Super Mario Galaxy/2 kept me from saying the Wii was a complete and utter waste of time. But I just couldn't spend another console cycle with only 1-2 okay games to play a year. I've loved the Wii U and 3DS though so they've brought me back.
Dude is only a household name now because people make fun of him.
Just stop.
Guy Fieri is a pretty decent show host and from people I know that have interacted with him, he's a pretty amiable and nice guy all around. I don't know what people have against him other than enthusiasm and the bleached hair. For what it's worth, that "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" show makes me really want to travel all over America to try great food and he gives people a fair shot, even if he doesn't love everything he tries.
I dunno, there's a lot of douchey food TV celebrities, but Guy Fieri isn't one of them.
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