Finding that out really was the best part of this story.

I greatly look forward to when this game goes on sale for a price low enough for me to snag it. It looks like fun. Just maybe not quite $60 of fun.

The more I hear about this game the more I want to play it. There hasn’t been something so persistent in catching my attention with its positive reception in a very long time.

There’s this idea, that’s never said, but basically some professional people (like myself) don’t make $15, so why should some dumb burger flipper?

I kinda like that premise: video games ask us to do a lot of fantastic things

We hear now on all sides the term “robber barons” applied to some of the great capitalists. ... The old robber barons of the Middle Ages who plundered sword in hand and lance in rest were more honest than this new aristocracy of swindling millionaires.

I kind of want a Hitman game without an overarching story or plot. Just have 47 doing his thing, around the world, to interesting people, in exotic places, with unusual weapons and meticulously arranged “accidents.”

I’m pretty sure they carved his jaw from stone.

Sure, Facebook is entertaining, but I pity our descendants, many of whom will never know the experience of stumbling across an ancient snapshot of a relative looking like a million goddamn bucks.

“Beginning”?

“What I can tell you is over the last three and a half years, I spent a lot of my days on the phones with CEOs and recruiting jobs to this state. I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag.”

I recommend playing Enemy Unknown at least once with cheats enabled - just to take advantage of having unlimited funding. It gives you the uncommon experience of feeling like you’re actually running a dedicated global defense network - something like a SHIELD game, except with aliens in place of superhumans.

It looks like aliens are running the show, these days, perhaps with human collaborator governments, and XCOM has become The Resistance.

Reminds me of Enemy Unknown. That’s good enough for me.

Not quite, alas. Volunteer work several days a week plus unpaid writing work on a looming deadline.

I’ve not yet had the chance: circumstances have conspired to repeatedly keep me from having the time to finish the last book I started.

You’re thinking of her more popular and more successful older brother, Gary Stu.

I’ve had to resort to finding an empty corner and doing it there, where I can at least cut down on the number of possible directions in which to pursue errant projectiles.

-clips his toenails in the bathroom over a garbage can.