Watching my girlfriend play through Fallout 4, I'm struck by how sparse ammo is - is that a mainstay of the series?

I'm kind of astonished that they felt the need to blank out the word "guns" in the line "Hustlers, grab your guns" in the YouTube video above. Song censorship makes no sense sometimes.

Paint It Back is just classic Picross, but with some particularly fun images. Everyday Genius: Square Logic is also mostly Picross, but with a couple twists.

Hexcells & Hexcells Infinite definitely have some head-scratchers. I think they were all solvable without guessing, but towards the end, they got iffy. And by iffy, I mean I couldn't tear myself away & beat the game in just one or two sittings because I loved it so much.

This weekend, I will be watching my brother play… klezmer music! It's his second gig, and I'm sure he's gonna be doing some serious clarinet wailing.

Look, the mechanic is just a cool variant on match-3 between Bejeweled and Puzzle & Dragons, okay?

I'm conflicted about House of Leaves. When it worked, it really worked. However, it also hints at the more self-indulgent habits that Danielewski really goes wild with in his more recent output.

Make no mistake; book club meetings are in between discussions of this season of The Bachelor, of which there are also a surprising number of fans in my office.

I've yet to read The Bone Clocks, though it is on my list. My impression, though, is that it returns to the "everything-is-connected"-ness of Ghostwritten, his debut. I think that's just kind of his bag. The historical fiction of Thousand Autumns was a little bit of an outlier.

Did you read The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet? That one's pretty straightforward, at least as his novels go, and it's my personal favorite of his.

My book club at work is dipping its toe into fantasy after a series of sci-fi books. Here's an open question: What do you choose for a stand-alone fantasy novel recommendation? We went with Brandon Sanderson's Elantris, which took some time to get into, but I'm quite enjoying!

I'm sorry, if you're talking about his best two movies, I think you mean Kate and Leopold is at 50%.

That's a real Sophie's choice: any Holst piece vs monster truck rally. I don't envy you. I can't remember how many times I've played Holst's 1st & 2nd suites, and, as a euphonium player, it's been a delight every time. Hope it was a good performance!

Curses! Why didn't they think of the people who would be conflicted between the two events? Particularly if the two were so close as to share a parking garage… What was the piece you went to see? (I'm more a wind ensemble guy, myself, but I can appreciate the occasional stringed instrument.)

The earlier you go in their discography, the more shared DNA they have with VW, I think.

Like I say, fair warning: you probably won't like it, but it might contextualize the new sound more.

Love Spaceteam! Never fails with me & my bros. Have you also tried Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes?. Not quite as crazy, but definitely in a similar vein.

Destiny, Destiny, Destiny. I had a great time playing Crimson Doubles last week & I have reached the end of expansions 1 & 2 (final raids excepted). I think it's time to dive into the Taken King expansion. I hear that it's not only more fun, but also has a coherent, interesting story, to boot!

Congratulations on the kiddo! My video-game aficionado brother is also re-prioritizing now that he's taking care of his own 4-month-old baby girl; he's found that DS games are the sweet spot for him: the right combination of hand-held & easy to stop / re-start at convenience.

Did you listen to Discovery, the other album that Wes Miles & Rostam had done together? If you don't care for this, you probably wouldn't care for that, either, but the sound isn't as much of a surprise if you knew their earlier collaboration.