I limit my JRPG intake now to the 3DS, but I think I have less tolerance for the "flaws" because they're the type that are so well documented now. Maybe I should be more lenient and this is just taste, but the grind and filler feel like bad habits fandom in part expects and "likes" not because they give quality time…

A Very Comfy Sofa is a lovely book for the furniture fan in us all.

Switching Kirk and Spock constituted more of a twist—which I thought it lead to a genuinely good moment, when Kirk is asking Spock how he turns off emotions—bringing in Kirk and his overreaction, and Spock and his tight-assedness, and me thinking here's a good character moment, say something like "I don't" and not the…

"Context without content." Which was a line from N+1 lit mag about The Believer—how's that for a pretentious set of references—but anyway, I like it. Sums up a lot of fans and fannish writing.

Thanksgiving time was the opportunity to take the captive family and force them to play some games. Sushi Go was the success I expected it to be, though I've played it often enough now that I wish the card distribution was a little controllable. Or there was a ginger card that let you steal someone else's choice.

Upgrades! I didn't know there were upgrades! So it's not just an unrelenting death march with diminishing resources…

That's always been my experience with Axis and Allies. I distinctly remember setting it up and then breaking it down, but not playing it. Arkham—I have yet to play it either—there's a game shop nearby that lets you rent games and one of the things they mentioned is call ahead and they'll set Arkham up for us so it'll…

Like I said above, I try hard not to be that guy when I play a co-op game, and at least with the crowd I play with it doesn't seem to be a problem (I think). I get caught in the other end of stuff, where some of the people I play with get super-competitive that not only can't handle—pretty gentle really—trash talking…

I love Pandemic, and this particular tendency, so I'm very mindful of never pushing too hard, especially pushing too hard for my ideas when I play. I may push for a goal, or a tactic, but not always both. I actually like watching the game more than playing now—mainly for the thrill of when an epidemic strikes.

Basically, yeah. I'd like to eliminate from display the apps and items I don't use. The PS3 would lead with whatever you've played most recently, but not display games without the disc inserted unless they were full digital installs. Those games though tended to stack up.

The PS4 is pretty new to me, but I do find the menus nicer than the PS3. I wish there was something I could do about reordering or eliminating things I haven't used though. It's going to get cluttered real fast, and I don't think there's any customization—and there never was for the PS3.

From the fun expansion, but captured the joyousness of the game for me:

Jade Empire is an early Bioware game totally caught up in the evil = jerk trouble of these games, despite trying hard to not be a good/evil binary which is totally baked into Star Wars. It also had a few quite good moments though.

It's potent but it recedes—as long as you don't get caught up in "but why isn't killing him an option." He works well actually, as a force of nature storytelling menace.

I'm a soft touch, I couldn't leave all those children toiling.

I bought myself a PS4 recently and have been chugging away at Syndicate—I maybe made the mistake of clearing most of the city, a process I thoroughly enjoy, but has left me super powerful. Otherwise I got the Uncharted and Last of Us Remastered to play through some time. I'm kinda hankering for PS4 exclusive and I…

Sushi Go! Is the bee knees! Don't go crazy for the Maki!

I'm like three decisions away from the end of Season 1—which in general I have enjoyed. I've only played it recently, like a month ago, so I haven't been caught up in the angst of waiting too long, and I'm mindful how tied into the tv series it is, so I understand that there are probably humongous chunks of it that…

Oh yeah. I say he's better, but it's super far from good. The man set himself a really low bar.

I came in to say it's funny enough, but as an impression it's terrible. Jindal is super mechanical—he's better than he was when he was "introduced" by giving the rebuttal to one of the State of Union's, but he still sounds like he's practicing in the mirror.