What may be even worse: I imagine that when a Cubone evolves it does not discard the skull of its mother but merges with it; its mother's death is necessary for it to continue living—

Next to Xenogears this game has to stand up there as one of the very few very good dark JRPGs. It does not miss on much; actually, I think my only complaint is that there's no voice acting—which I completely understand.

Went for the True Demon ending my first run through. Not bragging. Just pointing out one of the many stupidities of my youth.

I vaguely recall that they can be avoided. Maybe I'm thinking of something else.

"BITCH, PLEASE, I'm the king." I would like to say, if that was a male lion; missed opportunity, really.

I actually just started playing it. It's startlingly good. I feel like an idiot for not trying it at launch. I think it actually improves on, at least, the mechanics of the single-player to create a brutal experience that is somehow satisfying.

There is an interesting discussion to be had regarding the state of knowledge within a digital framework; when we talk about what we know, now—especially thinking about the kind of localized expertise we get in digital culture with the varieties of language and vernaculars, say for Photoshop, video encoding, etc.,…

The game is pretty fun thus far. Surprisingly, I'd only died four times before No-Man's Wharf (and I fell into the water twice); one of them was when fighting the Pursuer. No, no, he didn't kill me; one of my phantoms fired a ballista that missed him and hit me about 30 seconds into the fight. I'd never laughed so…

I can get in with the HDMI workaround every third try but then the resolution is 1600, I've got no sound, text isn't rendering correctly and it still crashes when I restart it. But progress. . .

Slightly off topic, but is anyone having trouble with DSII through Steam? More and more people at the moment, myself included, are crashing on startup.

I started watching season 1 on Amazon a few days ago and. . .my reaction is mixed. Like others have said Tatiana Maslany is by far the best thing about it. Otherwise, though, I'm going to have to imagine that it gets a lot better after the first 3 episodes based on how well people respond to it, because as yet it…

A machine at Netflix knows great shows. The idea for the reboot of House of Cards was generated by an algorithm. Throw a couple relevant things into a pot—David Fincher, Kevin Spacey, political drama, and British TV—and you get a hell of a stew. I don't know if the groundwork for Orange was generated the same way.

I'd like to see a sandbox game with really harsh penalties for civilian deaths. When he just rips open with his rifle on the "taco truck" and guns down a civilian, effectively saying: "oops," it's nothing; he keeps going. He alludes to a reputation penalty, but that seems so minor and tone breaking, when the game…

There goes my Suikoden II nest egg. To make up for it, I guess I'll just have to PLAY THE EVERLOVING SHIT OUT OF THIS GAME ON MY VITA.

Let's make this weird.

Still one of the loveliest and most beautiful (in every sense of the word) sequences in video gaming. I really can't think of anything that compares.

Aren't we all.

"You're a monster. You're a monster!"

At 1:05, when he stops for a solid 5 seconds and then. . .and then he just gets right back to it. That broke my face open.

Kind of makes me want someone to make a Fu Su Lu figurine.