1) I don’t know. I don’t really know how old Mr. Cake is. I do know that he’s around foals a lot. I mean, come on. He works in a confection shop! I’m sure his job just puts him closer to the pulse of child culture.

Didn’t mean to make you feel old! Sorry!

2) A proper strategy game gives you simple tools and lets you formulate how to use them yourself. The trick is which ones, where, and in what sequence.

The problem with Pokemon is that it gives you a bazillion complicated, interconnecting, one-shot, trump cards! I know they were bugged as a entomology museum, but the first Pokemon games were simple enough to fully wrap your head around.

I don’t know. I’m sure I’d still like the game if I played it, but that wouldn’t suddenly make that aspect (because I don’t want to call it a fault) any less pronounced. I just wish the series hadn’t taken such a Magic the Gathering-esque turn.

3) Lyra: Not just three double yous, three double yous and a period. Still stupid. I mean, it doesn’t stop spammers anyway. They just use “(dot)” instead of “.”

Lyra: I’m going to be the Demi-Fiend from Nocturne! I even got glow-in-the-dark body paint!

Bon-Bon: I was originally going to go as a royal guard, but Lyra suggested Joan of Arc instead, as something more specific. So in addition to armor I’ll be carrying around a… battle standard? Oh good, I remembered!