This looks AWESOME. I am totally on board. I’ve always loved how expressive Fiona’s artwork is in Saga, and it works really well here. You’re right, she’s excellent about capturing a world of feeling with just a few lines in a face.

My Grandmother used to tell me about how my (jerk of a ) grandfather (who she divorced a long time ago) used to go to this bar that kept a jar of really hot, non-pickled peppers on the counter, basically for people to dare one another to eat. He would go and sit there and pay the owner and eat the whole thing... not…

I was just lukewarm on Rage. I think I rented it from GameFly and just never got around to/mustered the interest for picking it up again. Which is a shame, because John Goodman is fantastic, and he should be your cantankerous guide in every game.

If you like horror games that mess (albeit harmlessly) with your computer, check out Ivan Zanotti’s imscared. It’s a freeware horror game with a very simple, almost retro pixel look that pulls some seriously creepy stunts and gets more and more complex. It’s not even over when you think it is. Definitely something…

Yeah, I’ve heard that, and while I can respect those who enjoy and stuck with it, I don’t really know that I feel like investing several seasons worth of my time just to see if I like it that far into the future. :) Glad so many other people love it.

I don’t like Adventure Time personally (literally can’t get through the first season... just not for me), but I like reading what other people say about it. I like knowing there’s a show that so many people are into this much, and I like the way reading comments as an outsider kind of makes it sound like it’s full of…

A few years back, Busch Gardens Tampa did an amaaaaaaaazing VIP House for their Howl-o-Scream event. At the time, it was fifty bucks for up to four people (if you went alone, you got a t-shirt), and you had to reserve a time. You went through by yourself, and the whole thing was set SO far back from the main park,…

Was Conker’s Bad Fur Day really good, or was it just sort of infamous for its content? I remember people frothing at the mouth to play Thrill Kill, and when I did get my hands on it via a friend who had modded her Playstation... SO meh, a really mediocre fighting game that was leaning too hard on its taboo style.

I’ll be thirty one this September, and I think something cracked inside me when I heard Final Fantasy 7 came out 18 years ago. It’s not, “Oh, no, I’m so old!” it’s more that I can’t believe time has passed by so fast! And then I realized Chrono Trigger (and Secret of Evermore!) was released 20 years ago, and, well, I…

I think that depends on your definition of “time waster” because arguably that can be a more negative connotation depending on the quality of the game. :p

I’m honestly a little surprised to read this. The game LOOKS great, it just feels very shallow to me. After playing for about a day, I already don’t see much point in continuing... the characters don’t have distinct personality, just their stats, and all you can make them do is toil for resources. Then you can unlock…

Couple notes now having read the whole terrifying article:

Ugh, eating out with entitled jerks is mortifying. We once went out with some old family friends who came into town late on a Friday evening and decided they wanted to go to dinner at a chain restaurant in the busiest part of town that was very popular. They didn’t take reservations, you just showed up and put your…

I think the most telling thing is a letter that’s 99% all the misery you went through, with no real focus on WHY you’d want to get back together other than “I miss her”. Like... what do you miss? The times spent in sullen silence where neither of you was measuring up to the others’ ideals? Being a caretaker for…

This reminds of the manager at a local chain restaurant my husband and I go to a lot. The whole staff there has basically relaxed around us so that we’re basically considered part of the group... so we get brought into all the bitching, jokes, and so forth. We’re friends with the bartender we always sit with so we…

Things like these stories make me sweat bullets, but also so depressed that there are people who go around trying so hard to deliberately screw others over. I remember being mildly offended when we got our used car that the dealers seemed to be watching our inspection so closely, kept asking what our mechanic (who we…

I’m only sorta interested in the main story. I’ve been treating it like a witcher “sim”. Just traveling around, taking jobs, crafting potions... which is weird, because normally I hate crafting, but tell me those potions are tied to the folklore of some local legendary beast and I’m all up in.

I’m going to take the first story as a sign. Husband got a used Hyundai Sonata, and he’s getting the timing belt and water pump replaced this Friday... the dealer kept assuring him it would be fine, though it was around 120k miles (had already been replaced at 60k), but husband would rather be safe than sorry because…

The bit about American tourists in Canada reminds me of the time a pair of them came up to the counter of the bakery in the grocery store I worked at and asked me where our beer was. I was a little confused. “Do you mean, like... a liquor store?” They both looked at me like I was stupid and reiterated that they wanted…

Original Sin is SUCH a fantastic game, and I was so relieved since I had such fondness for the first game. (Which is still a lot of fun as a campy Diablo-esque game.)