Thank you! Still not sure if that qualifies as a firstie, though, but whatever.

Speaking of Whedon, the one sad thing about this is that fewer and fewer people will understand that glorious moment in that scene when the evil conspirators discuss their love for awful comic strips, and the loser flunky guy pipes up with, "I like to read 'Cathy'." Even among the Family-Circus- and Marmaduke-loving…

Arlo and Janis, guys. It is quietly great.

Genuinely good!
Refreshing! Unrelenting! Move[s] with the thrill of the very best page-turners! Constant, nail-biting terror! The rapes are ridiculously detailed!

He/she is not kidding, the music is so good, guys!

Cool! Mission accomplished!

Also, it's less than a month until the release of Amnesia, but there's still a chance to pre-order and save 10%! ($18 instead of $20… But hey, two dollars is two dollars.)

Wait, I have to go to the original source and actually learn something about it before engaging in discussion? This is the internet, man!

I'll be curious to see what comes out of the modding community in the next several months as well. The vanilla game seems neat enough, but there's not a whole lot there.

Those worms are ineffable. And believe me, I've tried!

Seconding this one. It was a good half hour of mild insanity, and I didn't even get the good ending.

Effing Worms
Um, anyone know if this is in any way substantially different from Death Worm, which came out a couple years ago and was lots of silly fun? The screenshot and the writeup make it look more or less like a complete ripoff of the original.

"Keep talking, mister! This'll be great! I've been looking for a good subject for my graduate thesis in documentary film. I just love filmmaking, and I'm so attached to my camera I'm likely to keep filming no matter how intense or terrifying our story of sexy super-spies gets! I'm serious, even if you yell at me…

What do you expect? This generation grew up online. They're not paper-trained.

I'm not coming up with any better theories.

I still remember an Onion headline from like 10 years ago: "Gay Couple Has Banal Sex".

Alien Swarm
I'm sure it'll be mentioned in the next Sawbuck Gamer, but Valve just today released a game called Alien Swarm, for the low price of totally free. It's some kind of top-down 4-player co-op alien shooting game, a remake of an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod by the actual original team who now work for Valve.

I trust Ralph Reed more anyways.

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