Ordinarily this is where I'd chronicle my Bravely Default progress (just picked up the Templar asterisk!) but this weekend I'm actually not going to be playing anything more sophisticated than Scrabble, since I'll be crashing at a friend's cottage with some of my chums.

Did you at least donate the remaining Marmite to a good cause if you weren't going to finish it yourself? Every drop is precious!

Oh my God I can't believe I forgot to mention Jaffa Cakes. I will sit an inhale an entire tube of Jaffa Cakes if left alone.

Bonus Thread!

So Octodad's premise is similar to the Chicken Boo segments from Animaniacs? I think, despite the lukewarm reception here, that I might be interested in trying this out. It looks like something I could play with my sister, she likes weird little humorous games like this.

The Hype Train is pulling into Freakout Station by way of Holy Shit Junction!

Man, I thought everybody would be interpreting this news through the lens of "sexy young man companion added as eye candy now that the Doctor is a sexy old man." But almost everybody went straight for "black guy in the TARDIS!"

I don't know, the franchise has always depicted companions and people in general as being amazingly adaptable to the realities of time travel and alien life. Like in the two parter that opened season 6, where Canton Delaware went from "whoa holy geez" to "nice wheels" from one scene to the next.

Ooh, yeah! I didn't get a chance to mention the Oroog, but he was my favourite character here. For some reason I pictured him as looking kind of like Falkor from the Neverending Story, except with huge claws.

I think he was attempting to pull this off. There's a pseudoscientific belief that trepanning yourself somehow increases your mental capacities.

Oh my God there's someone in the chat right now posting the entire text of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis one paragraph at a time, I fucking love this thing.

'Mythology' is a great word for what's happening in TPP. We're talking about a horde of sometimes 100 000 people, but they almost instantly and almost unanimously generate and agree upon so many shared narrative elements that it makes my head spin. It's like a 21st Century version of watching primitive homo sapiens…

I've been hopelessly addicted to Twitch Plays Pokemon as well. For some reason it feels genuinely thrilling to be present when actual progress gets made. I was watching the stream when the horde finally conquered Pokemon Tower in Lavender Town, and managed to see them catch Zapdos as well. I would never have thought…

Salutations acquaintances, and welcome back to the Big Finish Doctor Who Audio Drama Jamboree. This week:

Read post, thought 'what the fuck,' read name, laughed, upvoted.

A discus is a flat circle.

Rust: "If you get the opportunity, you should try to kill yourself."

Stones of Venice is so fun that I hardly even noticed how little sense it makes. Now that you mention it though, it's pretty much wall to wall madness. While actually listening to the story I kept forgetting that it's technically set in the future, since the tone and language are all so old fashioned. And you're…

Upcoming headline: AV Club explicably orders Steve Heisler reviews reboot?

Man, Twitch Plays Pokemon has been my jam for the last several days. I just find the entire thing so fascinating from an anthropological perspective. There's a lot of material to be mined there- the anarchy vs. democracy debates and the way the group can sort of more or less agree to submit their individual desire for…