Viz not kidding about "Best of".
Last week I was all excited about Viz's re-printing of the Pokemon Adventures manga... until I realized that the chapters were grabbed randomly from the original volumes. So the story rarely makes sense, characters leave and arrive with no explanation, and my enjoyment of the series has been destroyed. Now I still need to find old editions of Pokemon Adventures #4 and #7, thanks Viz.
Perhaps the greatest Mac nerd joke of 2008. (Already!)
John Gruber of Daring Fireball did a special MacWorld podcast with Cabel Sasser of Panic Software, and they got to talking about the weird $20 iPod Touch "upgrade" that adds Mail and other apps to the WiFi enabled iPhone-without-the-Phone part. Then one of them points out that the upgrade is actually only 8k which means that - like a lot of video game DLC junk, unfortunately - the file is not actually delivering Mail, but instead simply unlocking the Mail app that already hidden somewhere on the Touch.
Cabel: "It must just be a p-list... Mail equals True."
Div is a Divx machine.
One of the latest Penny Arcade strips speculated that most readers have probably forgotten (or never knew) that crusty supporting character Div is an old Divx machine. I have to admit that, for YEARS now, I had always assumed Div was an upside-down N64. And I had no idea why he was named Div.
Smash Brawl videos are appearing.
As demo kiosks hit Japan, local Smash fans are filling YouTube with demo clips. So far, they're spoiler free, as the demos do not contain anything we didn't already know. I do love finally seeing the Nintendog in action!
Well, that didn't last long--it looks like the YouTube videos have already spoiled a handful of playable characters people had expected. I'll spare you the details unless you want to be spoiled yourself.
I do want to know if Mewtwo is in, or if they replaced him with Lucario, or if they're both in a merely clones of each other.
A simple "yes / no / yes" will do!
Now that I couldn't tell you. I've heard arguments both ways, but the arguments for his inclusion are all tenuous at best. Nobody knows for sure, though.