This reminds me of a book I (tried to) read a while back. It was a ghost story about, maybe?, a widowed artist/writer dude who moves into a haunted house, unbeknownst to him, and JESUS CHRIST. The author could write some creepy scenes, and then, no exaggeration here, he would describe what had happened in them again…

Wow, I had no idea Battle For Middle Earth was so scarce! It's one of my husband's favourite games, so I'll have to make sure he takes extra good care of his copy. Something similar once happened with Startopia before it became available on GOG... he lost his physical copy, the place he'd bought the download from no…

My mom worked for a guy who owned an inn with a restaurant (basic casual affair, burgers as well as meatloaf, steak, soups, all made from scratch) attached where she cooked. He wasn't really a horrible sleazebag like some of the people in this article, but he was definitely an ignorant idiot. It was a small town, but…

I'm not sure what you mean? I mean when I click on the door, it opens the map rather than using the door as an area transition back down into the cellar, which I had just come out of through those doors. :)

I am the worst in any RPG with area-of-effect spells... "What do you MEAN dropping a fireball down in the middle of a tight skirmish with my party and some enemies hurts them?!" I always appreciate when they have a separate setting to turn it off, which I believe Baldur's Gate and maybe Neverwinter Nights 2 and the…

The gag is that Samus is on a dating app like Tinder, which finds nearby singles who are interested in you, but of course since she's off in the middle of nowhere in space, nobody else is around to use the app, which she mistakes as her being boring and ugly rather than not actually being near another living soul. :)

Oooo, thanks for the heads up. I'm one of those players who typically gives new games a month to let some other unfortunate souls iron out the worst bugs before I play, but I helped Kickstart this and couldn't resist when I got my code. So far, I haven't really encountered any trouble except for one odd bug of a…

I'm a big fan of brining, though it turns out I am juuuuuuuuuuuuust lazy enough that forcing myself to do that admittedly minimal amount of prep the day before is a surprising trial. (Same with the spice rub I put on my pork the day before I make pulled pork.) I remember a few years back my mother-in-law asked me to…

I don't think it's unfair for her to say she hates giving blowjobs and refuses to do them anymore than it is unfair for a man to say the same about cunnilingus... everyone has things they don't like to do when it comes to sex, and to try to shame them into doing it is gross regardless of who you are or what's between…

Didn't someone already do this for a fighting game? Soul Caliber, maybe? It's definitely weird, but apparently it achieved what they wanted... now I know about their weird anime because you're reporting on it. :)

I try to keep in mind that I don't really know Clarkson, and by all account the two other dudes love and are very close to him, so presumably he's a good enough friend for that, and we all know the media (no, that's not a dig at this site or any other) loves to focus on the bad and dramatic more than the good, so…

To counterbalance things, let me tell you the story of Handsome Dad and Adorable Boy. Back when I still worked at/managed a bakery, we used to write on cakes with gel icing, but that was about the extent of it. We had small, round cakes that were hard to fit more than a "Happy Birthday" because they tended to have…

Adhere to the dress code. Twice, for very special occasions, my husband and I have gone to a very fancy and expensive restaurant, and if we didn't fool them into thinking we "belonged there" (spoiler alert: I'm writing this in my workout pants and Farscape t-shirt, so... probably not), we were at least sufficient…

I really think Borderlands' Handsome Jack is one of the best video game antagonists of all time. Making you feel genuine dislike and justification towards eventually murdering a game's Big Bad is easy, but doing so in a way that actually makes you enjoy every single confrontation and bit of dialogue is a lot harder.…

Didn't Deadly Premonition have some sort of beard growth mechanic? You had to shave as well as shower, and if you didn't, York's beard would grow out. I don't know how "realistic" it was in terms of the time it took.

On the Tower of Terror ride at Disney World, they play a clip with Rod Sterling at the start, and they digitally edited out his cigarette. It looks much better than this, but still a little strange because of the way he's holding the hand with the now vanished cigarette.

I remember being blown away by Xenogears when it first came out. I picked it up again on PSN a year or so ago and... eh? Love the design and the colours, but my GOD is that the most bland, boring dialogue EVER that feels like it renders every single character the same blank canvas. It felt like it had a really…

There was a little browser flash game that did something like this. It was called, appropriately enough, You Have One Chance (or something), and it was about a man's actions leading up to and after the end of the world. When the game ended, you were stuck with the ending you got because there was no way to restart...…

I am VERY interested in this and the new Steam Link coming out later this year. I just have concerns over how well this will substitute for a keyboard in the games I like to play. Is that enough buttons? Am I going to have to stop to remap every few minutes in, say, Skyrim or a game with a toolbar?

Thinking about it more, the people who are attacking and wagging their finger at the mom for doing this do sort of seem like they're missing the point. How obnoxious do you have to be to someone for someone else to have to say something? Presume if the mother was motivated to do this, it's more than a simple matter of…