Interesting bit of factoid

Totally bellarisa's fault for bringing up handedness this morning in blackfolk:

In video games, the Nintendo character Link is often left-handed. In some 2-D releases, such as The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, he alternates hands when facing left and right, but this is due to sprite mirroring. Various other references are made to his handedness in media other than games; at the beginning of the Four Swords Plus (Four Swords Adventures in North America) manga, Link is referred to as the “left-handed hero” after defeating pirates that were raiding a Hylian town. However, in the animated TV series, Link is right-handed. In games, Link is nearly always portrayed as left-handed. Link's figurine description in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker lists his "manual preference" as left. The GameCube version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess preserves Link's left-handedness; however, in the Wii version, series creator Shigeru Miyamoto observed at E3 that most people used their right hand to swing the Wii remote, which swings Link's sword. Thus, it was decided to flip the game, causing all game maps to become mirror images of their GameCube counterparts, and resulting in Link being right-handed to more naturally fit the tendencies of most Wii players.

Okay, from a practical game marketing standpoint I get this, but on some level I'm going Aw AW!!! Fuck you! Not that I ever played Legend of Zelda (not big on the "figure this puzzle out and die 40 times in the process" sort of game) but it would have been sorta cool to have a major game like that give the edge to a left-handed player for once.

Who here is left-handed also? Curious.

Mr. T pimps Warcraft

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqJE5TH5jhc

I wanna be a Night Elf Mohawk, fool! I mean, I already storm through forests on my mighty frostsaber (enough to know which forest precisely he is storming through anyway), but Mr T makes it so much cooler.

They also have Shatner the Unconsensual and Omnipresent doing a spot as a Tauren Shaman out there, and rumor has it that Verne Troyer's working on one. I hope they're going to make him an undead warlock or something, not a gnome... that would be too damn easy...