I already mentioned this in WAYPTW, but I finally beat the boss of the second Palace in Persona 5 the other day. I guess beating the second big boss of a game isn't that much of an achievement per se, but it was such a pain in the ass that I was pretty proud of myself nonetheless. Quite a difficulty spike from the…

Neat! I think the only games I've ever got Platinums for were the Sly Cooper remasters on PS3. Love those games.

Hold up, there's twenty-one different people I have to talk to in this game? Dang, I thought I was reasonably far along and I've only met like half of them. I didn't know being popular was so much work. My apologies to cartoon bullies and mean girls everywhere.

I managed to get through it with one or two revival items, a few medicines, and some coffee, but that was definitely a temptation. At least I didn't have to go to a walkthrough, which was a real possibility for a bit there.

Low bar.

You finished Xenosaga! Yay! Now I insist you play the sequels, which if anything get even more insane but do allow you to skip cutscenes. I mean, if you wanted to watch less bananapants anime nonsense, but if that's what you want, why are you playing Xenosaga?

This Week in the Metaverse: After maybe three or four hours of trying, I finally beat the second Palace in Persona 5. The palace itself wasn't that hard, but hoo boy, that final boss. It took quite a few tries to figure out the right strategy to beat him (seriously, I spent an entire evening failing on that one. It's…

Oh hey, there was. Catherine Martell disguises herself as a Japanese guy for a while in the second season and pretends to be an investor interested in Ghost Lands to con Ben Horne. I'd forgotten about that, partly because it was so goddamn ridiculous.

Doing "Play It All Night Long" sounds like a great way to start a fight, depending on where you are. "Mr. Bad Example" would be a lot of fun, but I think the original version's tempo is too slow. I actually prefer the live version, where it's sped up to become a sort of demented mariachi number.
Now, "Disorder in the…

"Actually, we've just been hosting weekly cocktail parties with these cool owl masks and people just started making assumptions."

I have. I think my friends understood the song. It probably helped that we were the only people in the place, though.

And even in the comics, they've left his ethnicity ambiguous. He was in Arabia when he picked up the name, but his backstory before that is so vague he might as well be from Cimmeria.

Goodness, misspelling the name of such a well-known celebrity is… oh, what's the word I'm looking for… absurd, difficult to believe, highly unusual…

Perfectly normal.
Just work and Persona 5.
Fuck that painting boss.

I'm also on Season 5 of DS9! Huzzah!

Why should I believe you? You're Hitler!

When you see a guy
Trek to stars in the sky
You can bet that he's doin' it
For some doll…

Somewhere in my parents' house I still have a bag full of the manuals and whatnot that came with my extensive collection of edutainment games. They didn't come with a lot of crap, but they were made with a lot of charm, presumably to entice the target audience into reading them. They'd have coloring sections and…

Oho, so they're doing the old poll-the-audience bit from Who Wants to be a Millionaire, eh? Clever.

That's all well and good, but when I joined my school's Quiz Bowl team I adopted a code of honor that I take seriously, damn it!