That is pretty lovely; makes me want to revisit Marker’s Sans Soleil and, always a surprise, the Tokyo episode from Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, a masterful hour of television.

I have had an utterly delightful time with the Witcher 3. My only complaint comes with that damn sliding mechanic. I don’t mind not tumbling to my death when I head down a hill, but going up one it has to be the most capricious fucking thing I’ve ever encountered in a game; sometimes it will let me stop, sometimes it…

It opened portals that allowed the first demons and beasts to cross over from their dimensions to this one, and ever since then, The Continent has been populated by unnatural beasts.

Oh, Kirk.

A re-posting of this article has recalled me to the comments I missed the first time:

Saw title, immediately thought: Valkyrie Profile!? Saw image, then thought: Mega Man Legends 1/2!? Started actually thinking: I don’t know what game that is. . .

This is definitely an important one, especially when we consider any games in the Souls lineage. I wonder, though, if it might be clumped into something else, like Found Documents—

That’s absolutely true; either way, though: the Steam review system still isn’t quite what it should be and the meta aspects of it offer both great laughs and/or further excuses for human obnoxiousness. What information should we trust more? Their hours played or their brief comments? Should they be required to amend…

There’s one for Kerbal Space Program that has over 1500 hours on record; all it says: “It’s pretty good.”

I think you might have responded to the wrong person. . .

The thing is, though, I type into the chat all the time. I’m constantly communicating, and making sure that I’m trying to direct the situation in some way, even just through inquiry. What I’m met with is silence; whether this is due to a language barrier (I don’t know how R*’s matchmaking works, but at least one group…

This has definitely been my fear. I get Heist invites all the time, open my phone, and say: “Ehhhhh. . .No.” None of my friends have the game on PC yet and I hate talking (VOIP) with strangers—especially as something like this either involves telling people what to do (which makes me very uncomfortable) or being told…

Bring it in.

I was really hoping our “sith” was going to be less an Imperial agent and more some rogue figure who intercedes with the plot for their own purposes, but the image of him/her behind the Stormtroopers dissuades me a bit of that notion. Other than that, though, I was actually kind of impressed with it; I did laugh,…

We, white people, agree. But, like most things we acknowledge to be weird or wrong, for some reason we’re going to keep doing it anyway.

Ditto; woke up, looked at my phone, and let out an audible “Hmmmmmmm. . .”

I’ve got $9 in it so far, and I am more than pleased with my variety of tanks and planes. I don’t mind the grind even in up in tier IV.

Congratulations on 100 episodes. I always look forward to these, and I hope I get to continue to do so for a long time. Cheers!

Interestingly, at least when I played it, the starting mech was one of the best. I was routinely getting worked and working people over with it. I had an assault mech and the close-quarters one (Berserker, or Bandit, something) in my roster and I always played the best with the basic unit (routinely getting MVP).

What things don’t you like about it? Certainly I can see some things as being a little unbalanced, but, in my experience, they’re usually subverted with a good dose of tactics and coordination. And as I look at one of your comments below I see something about being “shoddily run.” What might you mean by that (other…