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Nintendo announced a new version of the 3DS with more buttons about a week after I wrote the bulk of this. Ah, well. It’s still an interesting exercise. What would Dark Souls look like if it was on the first generation Nintendo 3DS? Attack and defense controls The 3DS has fewer controller buttons than the other consoles that Dark Souls games are released on. We’ll have to rejigger things a bit, starting with attack controls.

I have all these DRM-free ebooks, and I like to loan them out. This is an action I often do with physical books. But my mechanism for doing so with ebooks is pretty crude. It’s basically sending someone a copy of the book and saying “Here’s a thing, delete it when you get done and let me know, honor system.” What I’d really like to do is just have a list where friends could check out a book from me and I could yank it back if they were slow to return it.

Form a party Cons are more enjoyable when you have people to enjoy them with. Unfortunately, navigating crowded areas gets difficult in a large party, and people start going every which way in groups of five or more. But large parties are fun! I recommend an optimum party size of two and occasional meetups with everyone else. Parties of three can also work, until the third member of the party gets hung up looking at Magic cards in the dealer’s room.

It’s almost April! The perfect time to talk about what games I’m excited about this year. I have limited time to play PC games now, and I’m spending more and more of my leisure time either in front of a mobile device or in the company of friends. Hence, this list is really weird. Anticipated Ingress for iOS Ingress is great. Geolocation-based territory control battles. An excuse to exercise and interact with random strangers at invisible portals.

Hitler Prime stroked his mustache, discretely removing evidence of a recent Egg McMuffin. “You see,” he explained to the temporal assassins, “time travel via your machine in the strictest sense is clearly impossible. But parallel worlds are possible. You did not actually travel to 1930 in your own world, you traveled to a parallel world in which 1930 happened to align to your 2041.” “But, we killed you!” stammered Biff.