Skynstein

Thanks for the biology lecture. :) A fully functional clone will inevitably be considered a de facto person. Genetic information is only one aspect of identity. Clones aren't robots, they're animals just like every human.

Well Ana, your team won. :) It'll be a good fight for the WC spots.

Yes. I like his art and character concepts. I don't think he's doing anything that IntSys don't want him to, though. They even hired an artist famous for hentai art to redesign Celica for Awakening's DLC. And he didn't disappoint. ;) I admit that some of the more revealing outfits may look a bit ridiculous and I'd much prefer to see this sort of stuff as some kind of reward in the game, but hey, it's selling and his art is pretty good.

Because the elitists who take pride in choosing the most obscure entries in the franchise as their favorites think FE13 was to Fire Emblem what the Black Album was to Metallica.

F-Zero doesn't really need reviving, I think a port of F-Zero X for the 3DS would be cool but that's it. F-Zero is a game which rewards extreme talent but in GX Nintendo just made everything too hard for casuals and mortal people in general. Some of the requirements are simply bullshit, and all for unlocking just a couple characters.

I wouldn't revive anything, especially things which AAA publishers hold the rights to.

No one is benevolent for free, and benevolence can be segmented.

The problem is that the DNA somehow keeps track of the aging data, so, considering Dolly was cloned from the DNA of an adult sheep, she grew quickly and her actual age was much older than her chronological one. Creating copies of oneself is useful to create copies of organs, but little further than that. There's no practical purpose to cloning a whole adult organism yet.

The SPL has always been about the Old Firm with the rare upset (Aberdeen from Sir Alex Ferguson), but most of Europe is like that, especially the smaller leagues. A region where the separation of leagues really hurt the strength of the teams was the Balkans. If you told someone born in 2000 that Crvena Zvezda once won the Champions League, they'd be baffled. Club football in the Balkans has been ruined by the war. The old USSR suffered less from it because the moguls kept injecting money into the clubs, so much that new clubs joined the forefront (Shakhtar Donetsk being the most famous example). Still, they were even stronger back in the Soviet days. You can bet Celtic and Rangers would love to leave the SPL and play in the EPL. They'd have access to millionaire contracts and far more exposure than they do up north. Just look at how Swansea is doing. And there's precedent, as there is a Welsh league but the stronger Welsh teams play under the English tier system. Furthermore, if Catalonia ever seceded from Spain, Barça and Espanyol would do everything to stay in La Liga. There was talk of Barça joining Ligue 1 to create a challenge to PSG, which would be interesting.

The CWC history is an ugly one. ISL, which is one of the businesses mentioned in the FIFA scandal, went bankrupt after the 2000 Cup. Then FIFA just absorbed the Toyota Cup which is what should've done from the beginning and the tournament has taken place on a yearly basis ever since.

If Israel played AFC qualifier the Arabs would be the lesser of your problems. :D Also, Israel has important advantage over all ME Arab countries, because their UEFA affiliation means their clubs play the European tournaments, where the competition is much stronger. It's a double-edged sword because you could aim for higher glory in the AFC Champions League but you also play more competitive tournament in UEFA level.

It was also 3vs3 which is my preferred format. The GB couldn't handle Stadium's AI, comparing the GB with the N64 is like comparing a compass with a GPS system. This may have been done on purpose, to avoid more complex programming. But it does give Tauros and Chansey even more of a ridiculous advantage.

Brazilians. :P (if there's a Brazilian side) Meh, River Plate will just be a sparring for Barça. A meteor will strike Earth if they win.

The problem is that they're really loud minority and make it sound like there are thousands of them when in fact they're not that numerous, but due to this multiplication effect they scare game devs. It also doesn't help that the bigger gaming sites seem to attempt to "cater" to them. And you can't even contradict their ideas because they'll bother you if you do. It's actually ironic that they want "safe space" but we who aren't SJWs can't be safe from them anywhere. :P

Woohoo, the horny teens will be able to rub their waifus and husbandos. :D Considering there's no blood, no drugs and no actual sex scenes, there's no justification for M rating.

I was a bit disappointed it didn't have Frog/Tanooki/Hammer Suit but those items are overpowered and trivialize the game. I suspect the Wii U has a better library than the PS4 ATM, but I have no room for one at home.

Voice acting can be good in any language ok maybe not in Portuguese of Portugal, the quality comes from the effort that goes into it. I usually prefer Japanese, though, because muh waifus sound better in it.

Would I drop in some cash for a Wii U just for Super Mario Maker? Absolutely.

Good point about competitiveness. But I can't see how small islands in the middle of the Pacific can become at least a nuisance to strong Asian teams. Fiji has a decent rugby team, so it could also work in football. That being said, what improves countries the most is professionalism. San Marino, Liechtenstein, Andorra and others play European competition all the time, but the players aren't professional so they suffer a lot. They have a colossal physical and technical disadvantage. They interviewed a player from San Marino squad who lost to Germany 13-0 in 2006 and he said the Germans moved as if they weren't human compared to San Marino.

I didn't know the Greek and the Romans weren't from Europe.

Mali was one of the kingdoms that ruled the West Saharan trade. It entered decline when that commercial route became less important (after the rise of Atlantic trade). Now, the Iberians certainly didn't pioneer the use of ships, but IIRC the compass was one of the developments that allowed them to explore further than anyone else had done. The Norse made it to North America first, but the Columbus expedition was the first detailed account, although Columbus never intended to reach the Americas.

OFC with playoff still has a better chance of qualifying than through AFC qualifiers. New Zealand was unlucky the last time because they had to play Mexico in the playoff after Mexico had their worst campaign in a long time. If they drew a team like Honduras they would stand a much better chance. Personally I'd rather the Euro with 16 teams and the WC with 32 at most. But the FIFA and the UEFA are corrupt and they throw bones to small FAs to get their votes and keep themselves in power.

The concept of safe place isn't wrong per se because we all need a safe place, that is, a place where we feel most comfortable in. If we don't have it, we usually build it. I have certainly built many safe places in my life. The biggest issue, though, is that you can't be too reliant on it, for the world is dark and full of terrors. The people who speak of safety seem to try to expand it beyond what it should be. It's as if these people were made of porcelain and a slight poke of the finger could break them. People who need their safe place for everything aren't able to deal with the world's unpredictability. I speak from experience here. It's not wrong to have safe place, but you can't live your life always guided by a nanny and shielded from the evils of the world.

I certainly love spaghetti, and that was brought from China by Marco Polo (or so legend goes), so there's that. :) Honestly, the history of my country is boring and I largely prefer studying other places.

It did, of course, but I didn't grow up in East Asia. That's my point. It doesn't mean I don't "like" studying Chinese history, though. I'm glad the new AoM expansion has the Chinese. Much better than those Greek copycats from The Titans. I also like the new African DLC from AoE2.