Yeah, I recognized that having to accrue 15 wood while building up the shelter was a unique demand to scenario 1, but I felt like it gave me a pretty good idea of the types of challenges the game would offer, and I don’t know if I’m ready to throw myself back into that for a third weekend in a row, but I definitely…

I’ve never had enough money to not be bothered by airline alcohol prices. The only proper 8 dollar Evan Williams indulgence is the 8 dollar 750 ml indulgence.

Yeah, they still got the core gameplay of improbable clockwork machines morphing into different improbable clockwork machines after keys were inserted and passwords were entered, but having the entire game’s world open to you, allowing you to backtrack and bring items from one location to another, just made it harder…

I don’t know how much you’ve looked up or exactly how much you’ve already done in the way of side quests, but I’ll be vague: there’s at least a small handful of wacky missions that break the formula of, “Tank, stronger tank, even stronger tank, tank on different map...” that, yeah, quite a few too many of the auxiliary…

I ran through the first three The Room games during my downtime through AGDQ week last year. Most of the puzzles were great. In the third one, there was a point where I just had access to too much stuff and the game wasn’t giving me enough direction as far as what to focus on, so I started letting the game babysit me…

I swore this was parody until I saw the tweet. I don’t know why I’m still capable of being surprised by this very on-brand combination of ignorance, tone-deafness, and self-aggrandizement, but it keeps happening.

This reminds me of the shadow enemies from Ico.

Are they calling it the PecksBawks? Please tell me they’re calling it the PecksBawks.

I’ve been grabbing 8-packs of hot links any time I run out and keeping them on-hand for when I need either an exceptionally lazy dinner or a quick snack more substantial than chips and salsa. I largely started buying them because they keep for an eternity, which means I can switch over to them after I go through all…

Proven by science? Hardly. Science denialism is not a branch of science; it is the absence of science.

These always fall into one of two categories:

8-year-old me understands the appeal of the gum/ice cream combination and would have voted for Allison. But 36-year-old me has had a lot of time to atone for his past sins and grow as a human being, yet still hasn’t aged out of the simple pleasures of a Drumstick or Freeze Pop.

I just grabbed my bundle last night after seeing someone play through a relaxing-looking game about assembling skeletons at an archaeological dig site. I went through that entire game list on day 1 and saw mostly shovelware, but the overall quality seems to have improved in the 850+ games they’ve added since then.…

Yeah, on replay, FFX isn’t a hard game, except for the moments they give bosses a method of giving a fatal status effect or a combination of two moves that either insta-kill or remove a character from battle entirely. Those can be neutralized with status resistance if you know they’re coming up, but I was disappointed…

I, too, was shocked how much I enjoyed Peace Walker. It wasn’t a numbered, main-series game, so I assumed it would just feel like a pack-in on the Metal Gear HD collection, but after going in with low expectations, I wound up playing every last mission until I got an S rank on everything. I don’t really remember any…

The most disheartening thing is going on vacation or gathering for a wedding or some other big event in some major metropolitan area with a thriving downtown filled to the brim with all kinds of local restaurants and varieties of food I can’t get in my remote corner of the world. I’m all primed to eat hot pot and…

My introduction to edibles was a sloppy, homemade affair where I didn’t filter the pulp out of the cannabutter, and both the THC and flavor it imparted in my brownies were too much. I ate one brownie and it made me immobile and nauseous, floating in between miserable consciousness and uncomfortable sleep for the rest…

I’ve also never played The Last of Us. I haven’t owned a Sony system since the PS2, so there’s just this giant swath of games I haven’t experienced. There’s too many games out there. You can’t have played them all. You’re always going to have blind spots. The Last of Us remains one of mine.

And it stays crunchy even in milk.