If this article wasn't by John Teti, who's known for maintaining his earnest sincerity at all times, I might suspect sarcasm in his comments about the "breathtaking enlightement and rich intellectual depth" of modern online discussions of video games and consoles…

Good discussion question. This happens to me quite often. Usually how I get into it is a 3-step process: (1) Get real excited about several games around the same time. (2) Progress a bit in each of them, then gradually start hitting a difficulty or boredom curve on two or more of them. (3) Slight reduction in time or…

Lots of repetition on this thread. I guess jokes about hypothetical crying statues are pretty played-out and predictable. Sorry, everyone.

Lots of accidental repetition on this thread. I guess jokes about hypothetical crying statues are pretty played-out and predictable. Sorry, everyone.

Dead, I suppose. Although it wouldn't really be the statue making me feel that way.

No, because normally I get that sort of thing after beating the main game. If it's cheap, maybe I'll pick it up.. after I get through some of my 30 other backlogged games…

Hey, yeah, that happened to me with the Mako too. I hope you discovered the cannon before the side (?) missions with those gigantic worms that burst out of the ground. Cannon is very helpful on those.

It's not that easy to have or acquire a clue in Dark Souls (without wikis). I beat the Taurus Demon but haven't gotten more than 5 minutes further along than that. It's a fun game but at some point I just got bored of playing the same 3-minute segment over and over and over again dozens of times. (Note: I am…

Cool picks. I loved Antichamber for about the first 3-4 hours, but then I got stuck and I realized that I wasn't so in love with its total lack of structure. It means that you have no clue about where to start among the 14 different dead ends that you have scattered around the map. Maybe one of them leads to an…

Stop breaking Twitch.tv, you Pokemon people. I read on Kotaku that that game is slowing down streaming across the entire site. So therefore there was too much lag for me to enjoy watching Merve play Brütal Legend last night. ALL BECAUSE OF YOU.

Damn it, with you and Teti both bringing up Binding of Isaac, I'm starting to get the itch again. I never did beat Mom back when I was playing every day for a month or so… and someone in GS Steam chat implied that even after you beat Mom, there are other secret (?) later big bosses too. I may never finish that damn…

I`m pretty sure that most or all of my gaming time this weekend will be spent with Mass Effect 2. I just finished the first Collectors mission on Horizon, which was pretty fun— I am 14 hours in and finally things are starting to get consistently interesting and exciting. Good times.

Let me just skip ahead a few levels of references to references, and bust out with the De La:
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Perfect time for a Colbert reference:
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Are you saying that a black kid can't like science and take photography?! —Donald Glover GIF

Sometimes when you are can obtain it. But only on a Netflix! Do not attempt another obtaining way!

OH MY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT! WAAAAUGH! WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MY BRAIN?!

OK, how about "most distinctive"? The word "unique" has been clearly been shifting its meaning from the literal "one of a kind" meaning you're referring to, towards a meaning more along the lines of "distinctive" or perhaps "unusual", for quite a while now. It's a pretty run-of-the-mill example of semantic bleaching,…

[creates GUI interface in Visual Python]

The code that comes out of that thing is deeply meaningful as well. Unless it's some colloquial dialect of C++ that I've never encountered, with a much more relaxed attitude towards syntax errors.