Of all the lies told about Iraq War pt. Deux, this one bothers me the least. Don't just go bursting my bubble about your daughter's appearance in that HBO Real Sex show, okay?

Yeah, it gets that 'going for idealized, but collapsing into imperfection' tension that exists in better adolescent narratives. I'll be curious to see how it plays out over the coming months.

At least not in this episode. If there's anything Oregon has, it's precipitation 3/4 days of the year. The coast, especially.

Played Episode One over the weekend. A pleasant surprise, if you're into a Telltale game with a bit more production value and gameplay innovation. It does nail my Oregon coast backyard rather well.

Plague Dogs, too. Jeebus. Saw both these more in the middle school years, thankfully. With Grave of the Fireflies roundabouts then, too.

This, Dark Cauldron, Anime Little Mermaid, HBO version of Nasicaa. All played their part in messing my childhood up, but good.

A little way into Year 3 of Grim Fandango Remastered. Still a lovely and amazing thing. It took me a good twelve hours to get that far. Lots of idling and listening to the background music.

I loved Mother 3. I played it when the fan translation first hit, that holiday, week of. Loaded it onto a cheap homebrew/piracy cart and went to town. I played it at an odd point in life. I'd just gotten sacked from a job. This was maybe a year into the Great Recession. Mom decided on a whim to treat herself and her…

Michiko Sakurai's menu design work is basically a game of its own. Lovely, playful stuff. I also see it as an early harbinger in all that is awful and ruinous in pay to play/win casual games, but that's the brilliance.

Yeah, the last year with ps+ was pretty swell. At least you got in for Binding of Isaac : Rebirth. Someone did a spreadsheet. Across the three platforms, it was around 1600 dollars worth of product at the time of their release.

Yakuza 4 is going to be free with ps+ on Tuesday. It's a long, strange, well made game. It knows when to go loud, and when to go quiet. I appreciated the quiet, quirky and humorous side. Yakuza is often cited as being a bad Western title for the series, as the game does deal with organized crime, but far less than you…

Dug, from Up.
Abe Vigoda would be a close second.
Forgot Ein, from Cowboy Bebop.

Mmm. Reasonably talented food porn carefully edited to elicit a spectrum of emotion. Butter.

I am happy I snagged Yakuza 4 when they put it up on psn. It's unique. Wandering about, drunken most times, doing random stuff, feels like every Friday night in one perpetual game-play loop. I've never seen a game so invested in the local business scene. It's sort of like a yellow pages or penny saver version of an…

I'm pretty sure Chupacabra is code for Marilyn Manson.

I'd probably only see this if they dubbed Batkid with Christian Bale. Or Will Arnett. Or Kevin Conroy. Or Adam West. Or all of them, at once, as Ur-Batkid. I think the Eric Roberts cameo is probably out of the question, which would be a shame, because he's canon.

EAT. PRAY. REVENGE.

AV Club is having a good time with so many bad movies this week. Though, I do appreciate the odd Hudson Hawk.

Yeah, looking over rotten tomatoes, it seems AV Club is near the top of the heap.

Yeah, I've been looking for a cheap copy of Nier, but that won't happen any time soon, so I can't pass judgement, but it tilts so heavily into the adore/hate spectrum, the only constant seems to be the appreciation for its tunes.