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AlfredicEnglishRules 27 points ago +27 / -0

Iwata took a pay cut during the Wii U so they could make a profit. Miyamoto has joint rights to Mario and others, so he gets a percentage of every sale. He makes more than the president. No one seems to be bothered by this.

Nintendo has taken on the mob, both US and Japanese, and every combination you can think of. They have taken on giants like Sony and Microsoft. They have been challenged by similar things in Europe, China, and even South America. They keep winning.

There are so few books about this. Even the history books don't really talk about it. We should be studying Nintendo as a guide to how to think things through.

I had one insight the other day. The designers at Nintendo learned Assembly and C, and programmed to keep things down. They learned how to be creative with extreme restrictions. When they get more room, they still work with those ideas on mind, so we end up with a much better game. We should teach kids how to program with extreme restrictions and then move them up to the bigger better programs so they learn all the basics really well.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ok, that is perfect. I will test it out when I get the chance. I don't know nitter very well, so I expect to screw up at some steps. Expect to see a few archived posts from nitter on the next list.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah, I heard about that, probably from you. That's really sad. Car design is weird in and of itself. There is a specific program for designing the car with mud.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 9 points ago +9 / -0

Madame Web is an old woman who can appear out of thoughts. How the heck is she young and hip?

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AlfredicEnglishRules 7 points ago +7 / -0

I used to do that to do demographic checks at conventions.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 2 points ago +2 / -0

One mafia taking on another? This should be fun.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 9 points ago +9 / -0

I sort of want to walk through theme parks and high five people while filming it.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 5 points ago +5 / -0

I'm wondering how long the Thagomizer has? It's a bit on the far side, but I bet idiots would like it better if nothing had a name.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 5 points ago +5 / -0

Even the cars haven't been great recently. It's a weird thing to see a car from 10 years ago look better than a more recent one. They're supposed to look super awesome.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 1 point ago +1 / -0

How I met your mother called it crazy eyes

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AlfredicEnglishRules 19 points ago +19 / -0

Nintendo doesn't seem to be taking the bait either. They stopped a Pokemon mod of the game, and that's about it.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 4 points ago +4 / -0

How are they historians? There are two types. The first checks every source they can find, lists them, and then shows a conclusion from his research. The other kind finds stories that fit their narrative and go with it.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 4 points ago +4 / -0

Yeah, its an insurance scheme. They build a hotel, then it burns down. Insurance pays for a new one. IRA builds it. Then that one burns down.

Who wins? The people being paid to build the hotel.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 10 points ago +10 / -0

I know how to push it. Say it helps people be straight. See what happens.

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AlfredicEnglishRules 21 points ago +21 / -0

The latest term is 15 minute cities.

From a city designer's point of view, it's easier to just lump everything in one place, and not every few miles like the suburbs require.

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