I never had (or asked the folks for) a Hess truck, but I've always been impressed at how quality they are: the detail is great, they're sturdily made (the old ones were die-cast, weren't they?), and that simple, striking Joe Namath color scheme.

Jeopardy!

That is the coolest lady in the history of ladyship. Wow.

I would have much preferred four years of LBJ as a Knick and Melo as a Heat.
(I hate using "Heat" in the singular. BTU? Calorie?)

Damn, Marah Eakin, you converted a Texan into being a Browns fan. Clearly she's got somethin goin on.

Yeah, I'd prefer a snooty non-sports fan to a goddamn Pats fan.

That's what's fascinating about The Decision - there was finally a player who was just as smart and powerful as any GM (if not more so on both accounts) who decided to create his own team. And it worked. Granted, nearly everything else about it was tacky at best and ethically murky at worst, but just the fact that…

SIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMSSSS!!!!

I'm happy to see lots of other people bookmark old "Greatest Hits" commentaries. I actually got a little nostalgic looking through all the names that aren't around anymore.

Ooh, deep cut. And from one of the best Random Roles ever.

A commentariat turns its lonely eyes to you!

I was hoping this would be spy cameras surveiling the everyday activities of Google executives.

Sounds like a potential ridiculously elaborate deadfall trap attached to an unlabeled lever to me!

It's like a '90's W.I.L.D.Cats/Witchblade/etc. nostalgia look. And I can think of no stylistic period less deserving than that one.

As far as I've read, one of the big new things is tree growth - and that this is why birds are exploding, as the trees are essentially invading the space roosting birds occupy with superior hardness rather than boringly raising their elevation.

I'd play some combination of the BG and ID games first, to figure out the system, the gameworld, the whole experience of D&D, then decide what you like most.
Do you like the role-playing aspect? Then play Torment, a game where you actually have real choices beyond the good/evil axis. Do you like leveling up and…

I can't agree - even though I think Torment is one of the best games ever made, I think you need some introductory steps into the world of D&D, both mechanically and gameworld-wise, especially to appreciate some of Planescape's metacommentary on both RPGs and the D&D universe. I think the Baldur's Gate series would…

I love American football, I grew up on American football - but I've always thought it fucking dumb that it was called "football". If you have a game where a foot contacts the ball a lot, that game probably sucked. I like "gridiron" a lot better, especially as it would preclude footie fans from referring to the field…

I feel like Skutnik is using the Submachine series to unite all the Pastel gameworlds, Dark-Tower-like, into one cohesive multiverse.

"Aspic! Fetch me the Royal Stash, this one's cashed."