Yeah, I got that. :) I just meant that because what I like about Minecraft IS that crafting and freedom, I’m not immediately drawn to a linear storytelling version of it, particularly when I don’t find Minecraft’s story that immediately interesting. (In other words, just because I like Silent Hill doesn’t mean I’m…

I was/am sort of skeptical, largely because a lot of the appeal of Minecraft I think for a lot of people is the creative freedom to do and craft anything more than any sort of established lore, so a game that strips out that freedom for a more linear/restricted experience doesn’t really speak to me, but then I was…

Going to have to disagree with the “avoid less than 200k Kickstarter” thing. Sarah Northway’s zombie survival strategy sim Rebuild 3 was successfully Kickstarted and released for 41k (out of an initial 25k request) on desktop and mobile. Failbetter Games’ Sunless Sea released for 112k (out of an initial 67k request)…

I love love love love this show. It’s so brilliantly funny and sweet. What I liked was that it wasn’t just “women are shallow” but rather “people are shallow”... Takeo is constantly doing good deeds, like giving up his seat to an elderly man on the bus or trying to protect schoolchildren, and women AND men either…

There was a game I backed a couple years ago for five bucks that has been stringing people along for a while now. Not going to name names or drag people through the mud without confirmation, but one of the problems with Kickstarters are the apologists. People would post in the comments, most of them very politely,…

Wow, awesome! They’re all great, but that Buu is supremely creepy.

Touching them heals you of any lingering damage from “monster” encounters. My friend refused to listen to me talk about playing this anymore when I kept refeferring to it as “fingering the magic space sphincter”.

I think Kickstarters are hard to approach, as a player. You can do all your research on a company and the people involved, and still have something turn out a disaster no matter how promising and valid it looks and how talented and experienced its team is. I’ve backed several successful Kickstarters that turned out…

It could be! :) I’ll have to try one day. I just only ever follow the recipe on the bag of chips from the store, so I’m in serious doubt that it’s any skill on my part. The really fragrant, potent vanilla is the only difference I ever use.

Hey, I am totes not judging her. I once made some waiter think I was an idiot because he showed up saying “I have your entrees” and I went, “Oh, no, we didn’t order any entree.” He stared at me in polite confusion for a moment, because he clearly HAD taken our order, and it took me a second to realize my poor, dumb…

For me, it’s the higher quality vanilla extract I splurge on for chocolate chip cookies. (And most baked goods.) Everyone swears up and down how my chocolate chip cookies are better even though I’m only using the token recipe on the Nestle bag, just a better, richer, vanilla extract. It really makes a difference.

Look up. Look down. Your keyboard is now waffles.

... okay. Yes, obviously, a lot of racism happens deliberately. But a lot of it is internalized ignorance, as shown by the sheer numbers of people who just don’t think there’s a problem. There are a ton of white people out there who would tell you how un-racist they are, how liberal, and would be offended at the…

We will agree to disagree then. :)

I still remember a few years back I was having a discussion online about an article this white guy had written decrying black women who feel as if they must get their natural hair artificially modified. I think that a black woman had written an article on how she and many others felt this pressure to get their natural…

Yes, obviously there’s a big difference between being “inspired by” something and being a clone, which is why I put those quotes around “inspired by” when talking specifically about mobile games like this that are in fact straight up clones of existing concepts (and sometimes even mechanically) and then developed…

I was at a Bob Evans several years ago with my grandfather, who paid the bill by giving the money to the waitress, even though you’re supposed to bring the receipt up to the register. (This happened all the time apparently because this is a retirement community in Florida.) The waitress, who has been great, goes to…

I’m glad to see Pandemic get mentioned. It does bother me that a lot of these mobile spins on games “inspired by” free browser games either never cite the original concept or get all cagey about it, like how Angry Birds is just a cartoonier Crush the Castle with a slingshot instead of a trebuchet. I’m not saying…

I want to say it was Kids in the Hall who once did a bit where they had this shyster salesman trying to sell this horrible product in a store, and (can’t remember the exact name he used, so this is just an example) he’s like, “... our product is loved by Michael Jordon (as an aside quickly under his breath while the…

I just want to say I love these weekly recipes. They sound so fun and your art is so great. If I weren’t the type of lamer who thinks mixing a rum and coke is about as much work as she’s willing to do at the end of the day, I would be all over these. Thanks for making them!