Massively Multiplayer: Gaming In The New Millennium

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I'm pretty sure the first 4 generations of the Pokemon characters are supposed to be Japanese.
Yeah i always forgot about Pokémon too, gen 1-4 are japanese, 5 US , 6 are french and seven are Hawaiian with the MC being parte japanese too
 
Comic-Con Bombshell: James Cameron Announces Live Action Metroid Film

While Metroid: Starfall is expected to be a big hit when it's released next month, James Cameron may have just given Metroid fans their biggest gift of the year: a live-action Metroid film is in the early stages of development, with the acclaimed Aliens and Terminator director at the helm. Cameron made his announcement at a panel for Metroid: Starfall, in which a tie-in comic series was expected to be the biggest new product announced. Instead, about five minutes before the expected end of the panel and after a fan Q+A segment with voice actors Anna Gunn, Khary Peyton, and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, the moderator showed a pre-taped message from James Cameron, announcing the upcoming Metroid film, revealing the logo, and giving a tentative 2011 release date for the project. It will be the first live-action film based on a Nintendo property since 1993's Super Mario Bros., a film which still leaves a bad taste in many fans' mouths. James Cameron's video attempted to quell some of those concerns when he explicitly said "this won't be another Super Mario Bros. movie", and that he loved the Metroid games and planned to "do them justice" with his film.

The #1 question for most fans now is who'll be playing Samus Aran, and Cameron didn't have an answer for fans just yet. He did say that casting had already begun and that he planned to take "a lot of time" to decide who Samus would be. The announcement left fans with more questions than answers, but the idea of a Metroid film was mostly positively received, especially with a director like Cameron at the helm.

The Metroid announcement was probably only the second biggest film announcement of 2009's San Diego Comic-Con, but despite being overshadowed by a certain other sci-fi related film announcement, it's still got fans buzzing and dreaming about ideas for just how this movie is going to turn out...

-from a July 24, 2009 article on Blargo

This can go one of two ways: Either James Cameron is banished from making adaptations in the fans' eyes due to the movie flopping, or that film launches a sequel which adapts the plot of Darkness. Or, you can even surprise me on the outcome. It's your call.

With that said, I think George Lucas is to blame or thank for the single biggest announcement.
 
Well, how much physical "swag" have they delivered? More specifically, how much does everything cost?

Mmm, well, Club Nintendo at this time is offering stuff like t-shirts, plushes, music CDs, etc, a bit more than it did IOTL during the Wii era. It's $49.99/year, and you get four free downloadable games every month, plus some points that you can put toward swag (you get more points by buying games).

Is it too late to butterfly George Carlin's death?

I think he still dies around the same time as IOTL unfortunately.

Does the 1998 ice storm (which KO'ed Ottawa, Montreal, & New England) still happen ITTL? If so, how does it go down?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ice_storm

Nope. In fact, in the entire span of TTL (1991-2009), the world hasn't seen an ice storm of that magnitude. Yet.

I forgot if I asked. But do you like my TV Tropes page in the Oneshot Scenarios?

I'll need to check it out later, I've been pretty busy with other things and haven't been able to keep up with the contributions and PMs. Hopefully I can carve out some free time, but it's tough.

In fact, there won't be an update today, but hopefully I can do an update this weekend to make up for missing today, since I really did want to do an update today but ended up being a bit too tired.
 
Actually speaking of weather how did TTL's 2008 hurricane season go? IOTL It was pretty bad with Hurricanes Ike & Gustav. Do butterflies prevent Houston getting slammed a second time in three years?
 
Actually speaking of weather how did TTL's 2008 hurricane season go? IOTL It was pretty bad with Hurricanes Ike & Gustav. Do butterflies prevent Houston getting slammed a second time in three years?

2008's hurricane season was fairly mild ITTL, no notable hurricane strikes in the Atlantic. There was a horrific cyclone in Bangladesh that killed 160,000 people, but the Western media didn't spend much time covering it.
 
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