I don't know if it got mentioned in the comments, but I'd definitely second Gordon Freeman as a good example. I'm not sure what I'd say about him personally, but I think it works mostly because the world, storytelling, and other characters are so compelling. Having a character like Alyx goes a hell of a long way to…

Yeah, I'm honestly astonished that so many people can still support them so vehemently here. There are a lot of people around here that might criticize the actions of players but at the end of the day consider themselves Vikings fans. I just don't get it.

While I don't pay attention to the stadium debates as other people (my dad has been vehemently against the new stadium since day 1, so I get most of my information from him) it was kind of telling that, when they were first working on deciding what to do, my local library was cutting their hours. The library is back…

I have this a lot as a music fan; there are a lot of JPop groups in particular where they'll put out one really stellar single and the rest of their output is mediocre.

I also used the "…" option a decent amount, which is kind of interesting given that I just about never used it in Season 1. I think I just always felt in Season 1 that Lee was the leader and, as such, was trying to put in his two cents, but there were several times where I felt like some of the drama going on wasn't…

My Shepard looked good in ME1 and then had a REALLY weird face in ME2 for some reason; I tend to give my characters larger noses but her nose was HUGE in ME2, for example. Then I kind of started to like how weird she looked, but then in ME3 she looked different.

I'd largely agree with you about Season 2. I generally prefer Season 1, but I really liked Season 2 as well. I do feel like the group of season 1 was pretty transient; you gained and lost a lot of people. The biggest difference, however, is the player character. In Season 1 you are playing the de facto leader of the…

I generally prefer Mass Effect as a series for almost everything EXCEPT Dragon Age has Alistair and as such I can't very easily define ME as my favorite. I mean, I adore a lot of the ME characters but Alistair though….

I've been playing a lot of The Binding of Isaac lately; it's one of my go-to games when I'm either not playing much else or if I'm watching something that I can multitask during.

Oh no.

I'm glad! It was genuinely a very lovely place to work, so I'm always happy to talk or write about it. :)

It was a really great experience. The only reason I left was because it was a seasonal summer job, to be honest. I worked with some great people and it was a REALLY fun job. I was surprised at how delightful all the children were; the only annoying customers were the parents. But for many of the kids, coming to an…

Oh god this is really going to happen…. the book was alright, but I honestly have zero interest in seeing this as an Austen fan.

I've never seen New Glarus, but I'll keep an eye out!

I not only owned a couple of American Girl dolls, I worked at an American Girl store for a summer and was a doll hair stylist. I'm not joking. This was my first job.

I live in Minnesota, so for some reason a lot of people assume that I should love winter. Wrong. If anything it's made me immune to being happy about snow or things getting chilly.

They could release them both under the same name on the same day and have every time you go to the movie theater be a gamble as to which one you're going to see. So if you REALLY just wanted to see Matt Damon's Bourne movie you might have to sit through a few showings of Jeremy Renner's first.

Have fun! And eat takoyaki in Osaka.

I mean, if you don't have a neckbeard I think you can have a pass on this one.

You'd think. I could understand if this was a contact I had at the temp agency and they responded to their personal emails that way. But the fact that one department auto replies in Comic Sans… And this is a pretty large/spread out temp agency, so I wouldn't be surprised if hundreds, if not thousands, of emails have…