And you're asking for evidence in bad faith (i.e. "provide sources for everything you're saying or else I win").

Yeah, I had heard that. I'm definitely interested to see what he adds in terms of adept classes, but I also want to see what he does with the pre-existing classes. I mean, infomancers and cryptomancers are both likely going to change pretty substantially, and that's not even touching on videomancy, which will either…

"You look into the dying eyes of the mad cultist. The shadows cast by the fire pool into unnatural, ever-changing shapes. The cultist laughs, flecks of blood spattering over his crushed chest.

Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to playing UA myself. When it comes to tabletop RPGs, I'm more of connoisseur of fluff than crunch, and UA definitely has one of the best settings I've seen. Mechanics-wise, it seems very solid as well. I've heard that people particularly like the sanity meters, where you have…

As a resident of Atlanta, it was great to watch Manhunter and see William Peterson leaving his interview with Hannibal Lecter in what appeared to be the High Museum of Art.

Good games, all. However, I'm wondering if anyone has a favorite roleplaying system for horror games? Personally, I find Unknown Armies to be pretty spectacular for offering several different kinds of horror.

Maybe Epic?

I'll just say it: I think that You're Next should replace Cabin in the Woods on this list. I like CitW, and it definitely works as a comedy. However, the net that it casts is so wide (it's about slashers! no, it's about horror in general! no, it's about us, the audience!) that the individual points are kind of lost.…

Katawa Shoujo for the Gameological Game Revue. I've never played a visual novel, so this is kind of a first for me. Lots of wordswordswordswords so far, and some of the dialogue feels overwritten. But I heard good things about it and want to continue on, so we'll see how it goes…

Aesthetics-wise maybe the Adventures of Square would be worth looking into? It definitely has personality and bright colors, although it is pretty violent (it is a Doom mod, so yeah…)

"It really does warm my cold robot heart, that with all Call of Duty
murder simulators, there's still a market for games like this, Clay
Kirby and Captain Toad"
True that. Recently, I've been getting kind of sick of murder simulators generally (mostly of the indie variety like Hotline Miami or Binding of Isaac, as I am…

I think this was the first Marvel property that I actually followed. Vaughn's run was spectacular, but I remember being pretty non-plussed about the whole thing (although the
*SPOILERS* fact that they told the time-travelling Yorkes that their daughter was going to die *SPOILERS*
was pretty brutal).

I'm going to be pretty busy, but if I have a couple of free hours, I will be trying my hand at The Last Federation, which has to be one of the more unique games I've played in years. You are trying to start a galactic federation among several races just beginning to learn space travel, and each with their own little…

I support cultural exchange, as well as China's desire to see classical Chinese literature becoming popular in the west. China has a rich cultural and historical tradition that many Americans are barely even aware of. I am excited to see this mission come into being, and I hope that it succeeds.

I did appreciate that they included a warning and an option to skip after the (pretty justified IMO) outcry about it. However, why they felt the need to include for reasons that aren't "OMG FREEDOM OF SPEECH." is beyond me. It doesn't really add anything beyond "yeah, they're making a sleazy movie that misrepresents…

Eh, Thomas Was Alone offered little in terms of significantly new gameplay mechanics, but the context into which those mechanics were placed provided a very new (and in my mind, very enjoyable) set of experiences.

I saw that Hotline Miami 2 was on sale, so I'll be trying that. From what I understand, the gameplay is more frustrating than the first one, but at least the soundtrack is even better, somehow (I've been listening to the OST for a while now).

It looks like Anita Sarkesian in a movie by Terry Gilliam.

For a moment, I read "Supermassive Games" as "Supergiant Games" (creators of Bastion and Transistor). I was very confused.

So, my main exposure to Sulla and Marius was through Mike Duncan's History of Rome, which painted them as basically two sides of the same late Republican coin. Any suggested reading/listening/watchings for different perspectives on the two?