I think an ant simulator sounds plenty interesting if you populate the world with kids holding magnifying glass, hostile bugs and animals, and different weather conditions.

How will they hire a lawyer? They already spent all of their funds on booze and strippers.

Nice. I had one with very few annotations, but I was reading it as part of a Chinese literature course, so we frequently had a lot of discussion about what we had read the night before. We also tried to do Journey to the West, but we ran out of time.

Points 2 and 3 would be great additions to Steam. Curation, on the other hand, is tricky. Remember that a few short years ago Steam was heavily curated, and people were crying foul whenever a game couldn’t get onto the store. People were shouting at Valve to open the platform up. Now that it’s mostly open people are…

It’s a really incredible story, but it definitely isn’t a casual read. The story is really convoluted and there are so many fucking characters with similar names that your head is already spinning by the time you get to the battle of Red Cliffs. If you’re looking to tackle this novel then you’re going to have to…

In a sense, yes. It implies that the person is the disease in the same way that calling someone with mental retardation a retard is offensive. It isn’t inherently offensive, but both have 1) entered our general vocabulary as derogetory terms 2) don’t fit in with the current trend of person-first speech generally…

Wouldn’t this be insanely imbalanced? Getting a proper multiplayer mod would involve a lot more than simply figuring out how to get multiple people into the game.

As if Monopoly weren’t terrible already. You could pick any other board/tabletop game and have more fun. I’d sooner play Jump to Conclusions, at least my misery would be over quickly.

I’m fairly certain that it’s a breech of IP, but a random internet user is unlikely to have the know-how, money, or interest to make such a claim. If Gawker gets one claim for every hundred articles like this then they’d probably still be walking away with a significant profit.

If they plan on selling these, wouldn’t it be relatively easy to find the culprits? I mean, the store would presumably have an inventory of everything they lost. When a new listing shows up for 1 X, 3 Y, 2 Z cards then they’ve pretty much set themselves up to get caught. I mean, I guess they could unload them without…

As with every mention of video games in nearly every TV show I’ve ever seen, they’ll get it so so wrong.

If the game had an 87% “very positive” rating on Steam then doesn’t that mean that the world has poor taste?

That’s a pretty awful translation, it’s just so stilted. Here, I’ve gone ahead and translated it myself:

“For just pennies a day you could send this poor blogger to Ninja school.”

It’d be awesome if the volcano actually erupted. As of right now it’s just a mountain with a huge empty crater at the top. IIRC, you’re not even allowed to build in the crater.

I want a Vita pretty bad since I play outside the house a lot, but the reality of the situation is that, just like the PSP that I got this year, I’m probably not going to get a Vita until long after its life has ended.

I know exactly what you mean. It’s such a tired concept. I’m not going to buy two versions of the same Pokemon, Fire Emblem, or any other game in order to unlock a relatively small gameplay component. It’s a shit marketing tactic. Just give me the full game and stop jerking me around.

Much better, thanks Fahey.

What’s with the terrible (terrible) video player you’re using for this article?

I have to agree. The art style that Life in Aggro uses is really charming, but very few of their comics hit the mark in the joke department. Regardless, I look forward to seeing their comics every week.