Footnote to all this that still makes me smile: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, who voice directed the English dub and played Julia, is honest to God in a relationship with Steve Blum these days. So somewhere in an alternate universe that is, um, this one, I think Spike and Julia are doing okay. :)

Excellent!

That is hilarious and I am so on board with this.

I got into a romance with Xoti very early, sort of by accident, but it was too cute not to run with it. Then Maia and Teheku both tried to express their interest, and I felt terrible turning them down, but I cannot disappoint Xoti! Oh, RPGs...

Nintendo may not be the majority owner of the Mariners anymore, but long memories are long. :) (They still own something like 10%, if I remember correctly.)

The other thing you’ll have to do after a database rebuild: getting rid of those godforsaken Discover notifications again. Which I might be doing right now. Wheeeeeee.

I’m kind of enjoying the minimalist one-word headline here.

Well, that’s that then! Screw gameplay, I just want to go for a boat ride!

I’d actually like to try playing a Shudderwock deck once or twice just to see it in action, but I don’t really want to subject anyone else to it. Quandaries... ;)

Even in places where headshots with resumes aren’t a thing, there’s a creeping focus toward photos in the social media side of networking anyway. I resisted putting a headshot on LinkedIn for years because I resented the implications of it. (I eventually compromised and put a carefully cropped shot up there, more so…

They were the best.

there is no gudder one can git.

Secret of NIHM 

“To the surprise of anyone who’s played Monster Hunter in the past decade, Monster Hunter: World has become extremely popular...”

Yep. Moss was the demo I tried at PAX West last year that sold me on VR; it was charming as all get-out and felt really natural. (I also tried Star Child the same weekend, and I enjoyed that, too.) I finally snagged one of the PSVR bundles on sale this week, so I’ll get to play it at launch, and I’m more excited about…

My favorite office-design blindspot is still something that was pointed out during a tour I took of BBC’s old Television Centre some time ago. There was a courtyard whose fountain was always turned off because the acoustics in the area made everyone in adjacent offices hear really loud running water _all the…

Confession: I stopped reading at “indespensible.” The copy editing quality on this site is cratering these days and it’s driving me nuts.

Personally, games that contain the mode I want to play but lock it behind an arbitrary challenge I have no interest in drive me nuts. What difference does it make if I make my own fun over in one corner of the game on my own time — particularly when we’re talking about the single-player content here, which doesn’t…

That headline devoid of context is a work of art all on its own. Just scroll down the page and suddenly YYYAAAARRRGGGHHHH.

I know perfectly well that “live” there indicates “live performance,” but if you read it as a verb there’s suddenly a very different vibe to the entire song.