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IGN was doing a kind of pointless feature on all of Mario's costumes through the years. It was uneventful until the Goomba's Shoe section:

Kuribo is the Japanese word for "Goomba{", so apparently Mario arrives at this power by robbing a poor goomba of his footwear. We're more curious as to how Mario is able to cram his entire body into a shoe at all.

What's up with the "apparently"? Please don't tell me this guy hasn't played it before.

On FF Tactics:

You'll win not because you're overpowered, not because of cheap tricks, not because of unbalanced items, but simply because constant, brutal conflict has forced you to excel to the point where you can see your enemy's strategy before they've even begun to act.

Um, okay. I'm not saying that the game can't be difficult and require strategy at lower levels. But you can win by being overpowered, through cheap tricks, and all of that. Heck, that one character (Cid maybe?) you get later in the game is a one man wrecking machine that makes the rest of the game a breeze if you use him.

Oh okay, there's more:

The difficulty also swerves a bit as you inevitably bring a few characters to such a high power level that very few encounters pose any real threat, but that's after dozens of hours of some of the toughest, most unrelenting difficulty you'll ever face.

Okay, so we partially contradict the earlier quote and then exaggerate ridiculously. I think Velius and some of the early battles where you're still learning the feel of the game are the only parts of this game which are that difficult. Even with Velius, as frustrating as he was for me back when I played this game, I think that quote is an exaggeration.

Oh man, I just saw this on a Gamefaqs board and I hope it's real. Too funny.

Crisis Core took place before FF7 right?
Because some dumb a**hole on youtube just told me that it was a prequel to ff7.

The judge hearing J.K. Rowling's copyright case told the author that the names and places in the Harry Potter novels sound like "gibberish."

During her trial against Steven vander Ark, author of the "Harry Potter Lexicon," Judge Robert Patterson, Jr. told Rowling that he read half of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" to his grandchildren, and he thought there was merit in such a guide.

"I found it extremely complex," he said of the book - even more complex than the Dickens novels his father read to him as a child.