I have a rotating cast of hot sauces in my apartment, and none of them is Tabasco, but I think there’s a place for Tabasco. When I’m getting cafeteria chicken strips and there’s no option for buffalo sauce, a generous shake of Tabasco and a plastic tub of honey mustard gets pretty close to what I’m looking for. Is…

Well, I love the miniatures, and about half of my board game collection already consists of co-op games where everyone plays as a different character/class, and multiple possible win conditions sounds like a plus for replayability. For $30... sign me up. This looks great.

Ah, yes. Heiferweizen, I think it’s called.

I’d heard how hard the game was and initially went in with the expectation that at some point I’d hit my ceiling and it would no longer be fun to go for increasingly unfair challenges. At some point a boss would have too many things flying at me at the same time, at some point my reflexes wouldn’t be fast enough, at…

Hollow Knight is the best game I’ve played in 20 years, so I’d say you’re doing a phenomenal job of prioritizing titles to catch up on.

I have to use barb-wire dick fencing to keep trespassers out.

I’d be perfectly content with 2 Iron 2 Giant or Boiler Room 2: Tokyo Drift.

I miss the Taco Bell Daredevil Grillers. They were these little $1 pouches of ground beef, little red tortilla strips, and either chipotle, habanero, or ghost pepper sauce. After I tried it out and realized that the ghost pepper one was legitimately hot but not agonizing, my regular unemployed,…

Unsurprisingly, my Luigi playthrough of Super Mario Galaxy went much faster than the Mario playthrough. I’d completely forgotten that the races against Cosmic Luigi actually require precise movement and planned routing. Otherwise, anything I thought would be harder due to Luigi’s slippery movement wound up feeling…

Exactly my first thought.

Baba Is You is the kind of game where every solve makes me feel like an utter genius, even if millions of other people have solved this exact puzzle. It’s perfect for slowly picking through a couple puzzles at a time. I keep forgetting it exists, but it’s very rewarding every time I come back to it.

I don’t think I’ve played a SaGa game since they were the “Final Fantasy Legend” subseries for Game Boy in the US. I loved the third one dearly, rented it from the same video store several times, stuffing a piece of torn notebook paper in the box that said “DON’T ERASE SAVE 2,” as 10-year-olds do, as if there were a…

To be fair, it’s really hard to publicly come out in favor of minimizing the number of people who die from the plague that’s been negatively impacting almost every aspect of our lives for over a year. I mean, what about the people who don’t share that goal? Krispy Kreme doesn’t want to alienate them.

I had a substantial backlog a few years back - not record-breaking, maybe not even the biggest backlog on my block, but substantial. I made it a project and actually cut a gigantic swathe through it, completing most but dismissing a small handful as ones I didn’t really care to finish.

Funny. He doesn’t look druish.

I’m in the process of moving, have been loading up boxes and dragging them to my new apartment every day since Saturday, and after a particularly heavy load of five boxes of books, I’m starting to reconsider my unblinking devotion to physical media.

Just waiting for them to cancel Disney and decry cancel culture in the same breath.

I remembered Abadox being a completely reasonable shmup from my time with it as a kid, so I tried loading it up a few years ago.

I played through MC Kids for the first time like 3-4 years ago. I had an absolute blast and finally got why I was still hearing about the game 15 years after its release: it really is that good. The last world is absolutely brutal, and was just such a satisfying challenge to cap the game off with.

I’ve been soured on competitive gaming. It just takes me back to my brother using me as his Street Fighter II punching bag at home to practice for the arcades and my sister using me as a practice dummy to work on her basketball drills - she’d go on to play for a D1 college team and then professionally in Australia for…