I’d recommend My Time at Portia. It’s in the same general genre as Stardew, but you work as a mechanic/builder instead of a farmer, so your job is largely to harvest resources from scavenging/fighting (and a little bit of farming) and use them to build furniture and machines to improve your home, improve the…

The first step to making a remake is to wait for the original game to have reached a point where it feels like a product of an earlier time. This can be due to major graphical advances that turn what we used to see as Hyper-Photorealistic Supergraphics powered by Blast Processing into blocky and awkward polygonal…

Interestingly, one gains interest over time while the other loses it.

I just think of the villagers in Professor Brothers: Bible History #1.

You know, I don’t think you get this enough, so: I appreciate you.

Republican Congressmen were already clutching their pearls about civility when I was reading the responses to those tweets last night. I guess the party line is that you can attack someone with shit you just made up all you like, but the moment you start bringing up facts they long for the days of bipartisanship.

This week I cleared Cadence of Hyrule, the vastly easier of the two Necrodancer games thanks to persistent inventory items (especially weapons), non-randomized dungeons, and just a tendency not to have 6 different enemy types in the same room, all with different movement rules. It’s a good game for getting familiar…

I mean, you can, if you’re casing.

I guess Nintendo eliminated this issue over the decades, because my NES still hasn’t bricked.

Must be an Albany expression.

The New York-style hot dog, purchased from ubiquitous carts around the city, is a natural-casing all-beef frank wrapped in a steamed white bun

I think their direct response to Popeye’s was the Spicy McChicken, which was a decent if consistently smushed entry in the Chicken Wars. This sandwich is the result of putting a Big Mac and a non-spicy McChicken in a cage and forcing them to mate.

Fiddle... a... bout. Fiddleabout. Fiddle... a... bout. Fiddleabout.

The past week has seen a lot of bits and pieces of games: Castles of Burgundy, Brass: Birmingham, Fall Guys, Super Mario 64, Hammerwatch, Ninja Gaiden (NES), and more. I’m hoping to get back on the Curse of the Necrodancer train before I lose my sense for the game.

Look, I clicked my mouse button really hard, but it still only gave you one star. I tried.

Get the fuck out, Mark. Jesus Christ, we do not need to reboot Reboot!

Prediction: Four months from now, he’ll make the money back with interest on a gofundme page mostly consisting of an unhinged screed about how the corrupt liberals put him out of a home.

I didn’t know this game existed until yesterday, but I guess it’s been one a lot of people in my circles have been anticipating. I watched a bit of the gameplay last night in between household chores, either catching people in the middle of a town-building segment or in the middle of a crusade, but never enough of…

Let Me Shrivel Here

I almost never check the byline, but sooner or later, I always know when I’ve stepped into the Carruthers Zone.