Following Shatner isn’t too bad, but he’s also following John Lithgow. That’s a tough row to hoe.

Wait, wasn’t the frog from Heart of Stone?

Return of the Obra Dinn looks very interesting, but right now I only have eyes for Red Dead Redemption 2. Of course, I also want to keep plugging away at the Halloween bounties for Destiny 2, and I also got the urge to dust off Darkest Dungeon for Halloween. But Red Dead is clearly going to occupy most of my time.

As someone who spends a lot of his political time hate-reading social conservatives, I actually find it very easy to believe that a devout fundamentalist would hypocritically toss all their stated beliefs aside and cook up some tortured rhetoric to justify whatever it is they want to do.

I’ll be playing Megaquarium, an aquarium simulator. It’s loads of fun if you like the idea of building and managing your own public aquarium.

The venison sandwich was actually OK.

Chik-fil-A locations tend to have very long drive-thru lanes to accommodate very long lines. You get your food quickly, but a lot of people tend to be in front of you. Same goes for McDonald’s. That pretty dramatically affects how fast the drive-thru feels. It feels faster to get your food immediately after being…

I didn’t like how, in the end, the show seemed to present the house as a good thing. The caretakers who shunned the house suddenly want to preserve it and even die in its walls so they can join the ranks of the ghouls who torment the hapless folk who wander into the trap. The whole “rain of confetti” monologue. I…

Yes, but what I basically want is something that takes those screensavers and combines them with a 3D architectural system and simple economic model. These are all solved problems, but they really haven’t been combined before.

Got paid today, so I think I’m going to pick up Megaquarium on Steam. I love aquariums, and it’s a criminally underserved niche even in the criminally underserved niche that is sim games.

Salem’s Lot is boring. So very boring.

Paradox owns the rights to Tyranny, and by all accounts they weren’t happy with the game’s performance.

inFamous 2 is much better and directly continues on from the story. It also has a much more affecting ending.

The Council is a weird, flawed game, but I kind of like it. I just wish it had more of a difficulty curve. 90% of the game is just navigating dialogue trees, and the other 10% is trying to figure out absurdly esoteric puzzles. The final puzzle in episode three involves an astrolabe! I barely even know what an…

Lord of the Rings is essentially pre-Christian mythology written by someone who wanted to incorporate his Christian beliefs. It’s suffused with his philosophy and worldview, but isn’t about those things.

Amazon looked at the shitshow that is American Gods and decided it wanted some of that sweet Gaiman action.

I just imagine an Uncharted-esque metastory where there is no millennia-spanning conspiracy and the technology just lets the modern-day cast find treasure or something. It would free up so many options for the plots of these games if they didn’t have to exist within the stupid framework they are trapped in.

Sometimes I think about what Assassin’s Creed could’ve been if it had never had the stupid metaplot to begin with. And then I get sad for what we got instead.

I dunno, I think Nolan winked a bit in the Dark Knight trilogy. They’re usually presented as humorless, but these are movies where Batman says, “Nice jacket,” to the homeless guy he gave it to before zip-lining away, and where Ra’s al Ghul snarks on Bruce’s devotion to theatricality.

I will be playing Destiny 2: Forsaken, as I have every weekend for the past two or three weeks. Time permitting, I will also play some more Spider-Man or dive into the new Pillars of Eternity II DLC and see if my party can stand up to the new mega-boss they’ve added.