Posts by Brandon Daiker

Not long after setting up my Miiverse information for the first time, I decided it was time to spruce up the decor a little bit by jazzin' out my profile message. While I was fond of the original "Do, Re, Egon" greeting, it was time to push the envelope a little bit. With the assistance of my favorite linguistic website, I pieced together a polite and affable greeting I'd be happy to show you, your girlfriend, or your grandmother's girlfriend: "

Fire up your copy of New Super Mario Bros. U and you'll see it right there on the title screen, next to the prompt imploring you to PUSH 2 TO START even if you are using the normal actual controller that game with the Wii U, on which there is no "2" anywhere. Version 1.1.0, it says! Did you know that other games also include these version numbers prominently? In Nintendo Land, all you have to do is go to the main menu, then click options.

You probably know there's a near-field communication chip in the Wii U GamePad, or that it has all kinds of SUPER SPECIAL gyrometers and gravitational field sensors in it. But did you know there are some other awesome neat craps about it? One cool thing that it does when compared to the original Wii is that it has a sanctioned Wii Remote pairing option. You don't even need to press the sync button on the console anymore, just the button on the remote.

It's pretty well-known that the original Wii mode of the Wii U is heavily locked up behind tight doors from anything the Wii U does. Unlike the 3DS' implementation for original DS games, the Wii U doesn't track anything that you do when you're in the Wii mode of the system. Or does it?! In fact, it kind of does, in an altogether useless sort of way. When you put an original Wii game into the Wii U disc drive, the menu actually displays an image of a disc with the "

I teach high school in Japan, well I entertain students under the auspices of helping them use English. I do this professionally, which means that at the moment, it is my profession, I get paid to do it. Because nobody really cares that much about what I exactly I do, I design my own lessons and projects! The most recent project we're doing is writing reviews of something, because even though I hate the concept of reviews with essentially every fiber of my being, it's important to be able to express your opinion in some way.

If you are, I am sorry. But I just got mine last night, a good week and a half before it actually comes out here in Japan! (And the same amount of time after it already came out in the states.) Cory previously shared his own impressions of the thing right out of the box, and now that anyone who really really wants a Wii U back home probably has one, there's really not anything brand new for me to add.

Once upon a time I had just moved to Japan and I was really psyched to fulfill one of my teenage dreams: to reserve and then purchase the brand newest Final Fantasy game on the day it came out and then do my best to play through it in Japanese. As it turns out, the Japanese wasn't the reason I never finished the game, because I couldn't do it in English either.

I am so full, I have no room for anything left in my bulging stomach. We made some spinach fettuccine, it is so good. I eat and eat it until there is only space in me for liquid. And yet, for some reason or another, I feel myself drawn to the cabinet, to that place where I keep my pouches of slug vomit and preserved dicks. I am bored, I still don't have a Wii U, what the hell am I going to do, get stickers in Paper Mario?

For all the action up in this mother, my personal experience surrounding the surprisingly impetuous launch of the Wii U has been notably atypical. Despite having written a confirmed shitload (I googled for "shitload thesaurus" in an effort to spice this line up with no success) of articles Entirely Spanning the month of October—or as I like to call it, Brantober—the last three N-Sider.com posts have exploded forth from the fingers and mouths of Cory and Amber.

Whoa man, one more week until the Wu comes out "for people in America" oh ho ho not me. The information is really starting to seep out too. Just today there was a new Iwata Kas about the Wii U Chat application. And there was a FAQ that Nintendo posted on their Japanese website, lovingly put into English by a message board goer. I for one have just started to reach the point of System Information Saturation that renders me contented enough that I can actually started getting excited about the games, which is what we really should be excited about anyway and not the stupid firmware.