Your final point, about how commenting is a bonus and that the articles are and should be the focus, is telling. It shows the total and complete difference of perspective between your well reasoned comments and those of the AV Club regulars. The AV Club community was large and lively because it was the whole point.…

As much as I prefer Disqus for discussion, I think the real damage Kinja has done to the AVClub has been to its front page and the way its content is surfaced. The death of relatively sticky and categorized articles, in favor of an endless “what’s new” stream, makes it hard to find the regularly recurring bits of…

Nested comments may be dying in some parts of the internet, but in other parts they are absolutely essential. As TaumpyTearrs mentions in another column, in discussion communities where multiple conversations between relatively well-known personalities follow their own courses across a single article’s discussion…

They may have taken that path in life ... or they might have been out-maneuvered by the power players in the actually important places at the right moment, just like field generals have been out-maneuvered throughout history. Leia’s home planet was gone, and aside from respect, where is her power base? To most of the…

Hyper Light Drifter was so, so good. Definitely one of the highlights of my gaming last year.

I’ve been bouncing back and forth a bit this week, in my sadly limited gaming time. The overwhelming ball of formless anxiety from which I had been suffering the past month or so seems to have passed, for no clear reason, and I have found that I can actually enjoy Battle Chef Brigade much more as a result. In my first…

Yes! BLOOD DRAGON! I absolutely loved that game. I did all the outposts, just for fun, and then enjoyed blasting through the majority of the main quest in a ridiculously overpowered state.

Interesting. I found that if I was having trouble beating the enemies in the late game, then I was almost certainly going to lose badly to the end boss.

Since Shinigami Apple Merchant is doing it, I’ll do it as well. Games of the Year!

I have been playing Battle Chef Brigade, perhaps marking the first time where I’m actually playing one of the recommended games! Woot! I was a big fan of the Japanese Iron Chef back in the early days of Food Network. Iron Chef was a big part of my personal survival routine during my miserable grad school years, and I…

Yes, I loved Hollow Knight for those reasons. I was worn out by the time I got to the final boss, and could not bring myself to actually beat the Final Final boss ... but I still count it has having completed the game. And I got all the charms - NOT EASY TO DO.

My most locally-competetive deck was built off of banding and the Moorish Cavalry/Jihad combo from Arabian Knights, and was the first time my local scene saw what was later dubbed “weenie white.” Mine really wasn’t a proper weenie white given the banding focus, but it was close enough.

I have found my evenings overcome with fatigue this week, so there has not been much gaming. I was continuing to slog through Stellaris, but am not finding the “eat or be eaten” mode in diplomacy all that interesting. I have been realizing just how nasty the game gets at anything other than the “cluster” galaxy shape…

I remember trying to make a Green/Red deck that used Dwarven Warriors and Pit Vipers or whatever they were called to actually get poison kills. I don’t think I ever did. That must have been sometime around Dark, which still has some of my favorite art. Well, of the sets I have seen, which ended some time around…

I have stalled out on Rise of the Tomb Raider, a bit after making it to Geothermal Valley. It was not bad or anything, I just found my desire to play had slackened. I put another run into Stellaris, and once again got stomped by the first empire to declare war. That is 4 games in a row with the same outcome, total…

On another point ... you really liked Getting Over It that much? I have seen absolutely no discussion of it other than shares of its hilarious promo video, so I am curious why you rate it so highly. I know, I know, I could just install and play it myself, as I own a copy thanks to Humble Monthly, but that would be…

We will see how much effect this has when the pull Ultimate Team cards from Madden and FIFA ... which they will do only after actual legislation has been passed, because that feature alone makes more money than every other game they produce, combined, multipled by 5.

Turkey is very, very easy to mess up, so most people are eating what is, in truth, mediocre to bad turkey. And bad turkey is really, really bad.

Sweet! Turkey is awesome ... well, aside from certain issues at the moment.

This is a short weekend for me, as I have Saturday classes, so I’ll be doing very little gaming at all. This week I have been very slowly making my way through Rise of the Tomb Raider, and am around 30% completion at the moment. It is still fun, and still VERY stupid. I mean, people in the real world go to rather…