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Freakin' sweet. Ready for some RPGs for my PS4. :)

Happy to be of service to you. As cynical as I may seem sometimes, I didn't care for that crowd dog-piling on you on Twitter and on 1UP, especially as I consider you to be a friend. I've also read some of the shit you've put up with on the RPG Maker forums. There's legit criticism... and then there's being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole.  I saw precious little of the former and an awful lot of the latter.

I've stayed out of the Gamergate thing. I have a view of Twitter as the Internet's toilet anyway, where anyone and everyone can take a big public diarrhea shit. The only problem is, once you take a shit on Twitter, you can't flush it away. My Twitter account has lain dormant for three years and I'm probably going to go on Twitter one last time to close it down.

First, I really don't think Gamergate is going to accomplish much as far as "journalistic integrity." If you want to discount the folks tapping away at Candy Crush Saga or Kim Kardashian's Hollywood on their phones while sitting on the can as not being "true gamers", as a lot of the hardcore gaming community seems to do, gaming is a small, niche hobby. Gaming "journalism" outlets are enthusiast sites, not the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, and nothing more. As such, they're never going to attract budding Edward R. Murrows from journalism schools. As such, they're always going to be beholden to the content creators to a degree, in part because they're never going to attract steady outside ad revenue from big non-gaming firms like Procter and Gamble. Their primary source of revenue will always be gaming and gaming-related companies, so that makes for an obligatory relationship between the game publishers and the professional game writers. That's why we'll never see any true hard-hitting articles about, say, Electronic Arts' less-than-stellar business practices, which, IMO, are a hell of a lot more important than allegations that the developer of a little indie game may have slept with the writers of some game website that ranks 100,000 or below on Alexa. You're better off, in that case, sticking with PewDiePie or some other gaming enthusiasts that might share your personal tastes in games. This post here is pretty much one of three posts I've ever made about Gamergate, and I have no plans to get involved in Gamergate in any other way, shape or form. :)

The only gaming-related publication I ever thought was worth subscribing to was Nintendo Power - a publication published by Nintendo of America, that shamelessly picked winners and losers in Nintendo's ecosystem by promoting them in its magazines and reviewing them. As a subscriber, I was basically paying Nintendo to advertise to me. I mean, in Nintendo's defense, they didn't pretend Nintendo Power was supposed to be hard-hitting journalism, and every issue clearly had the words "Published by Nintendo of America" in it, at least until Nintendo turned the mag over to Future Publishing, so there wasn't any misrepresentation there. But man, was it fun. I never cared about game reviews, honestly, and NP had tips on how to play games that, for the most part, I really liked. I couldn't give less of a damn about all these gaming sites like Kotaku, Polygon, or Rock Paper Shotgun that cropped up after all the big gaming mags, including NP, bit the dust.

What Bob Mackey did to you was bullshit. Full stop. I am proud to say that I was one of probably more than a few 1UP compatriots that e-mailed Jeremy telling him (politely but firmly, since the problem was Mackey, not Jeremy) that I thought he needed to sit Bob down in the office and talk with him about basic customer service and human decency.

The X-Zone CE wasn't spectacular, just a soundtrack CD, a small artbook, and a poster. But since at the time it didn't cost any more than a bog-standard version I jumped on it. I like that game since I liked a lot of the game franchises that made cameos in it.

Other suggestions? I believe you already have Fire Emblem? My personal favorite is Zelda: A Link between Worlds. The Etrian Odyssey games (first-person dungeon crawlers), and Virtue's Last Reward are good, and those are the ones I think you might like.

Those are all awesome 3DS games you got. I got the CEs of Bravely Default and Project X Zone.

Let's see, went to college that morning. I didn't have a working radio and my class was early, so I didn't notice anything amiss. I got to school and the whole place was completely deserted and closed. I thought a bomb threat had been called in.

So I went to the bank nearby and saw the footage of Tower One collapsing. I thought the country was being invaded. Which, in a sense, it was.

Interesting, but I already have a Zelda 3DS as of last winter that came with ALBW. If I buy another 3DS it will be the New 3DS.

You're far better off for not having gotten involved in Gamergate. Reading the stuff on Twitter about it made me want to punch my computer screen.

Mario Kart 8, Bravely Default, Tales of Xillia 2, Tales of Symphonia Chronicles.

I'm still going to be buying PS3 games at least until Tales of Zestiria comes out. Unless Namco decides to do a PS4 port.