Carcassonne was only like $35, way worth it.

Madden 13 remade in the ORIGINAL Infinity Engine might be kind of awesome.

To be fair, there's almost no acknowledgement of your wins in FM, either; when I'm playing career mode, I'm usually past that point anyways. Come April/May, unless things are tight, I generally am already thinking about summer and transfers, not about the end of the season.

I'm feeling like #4 might be Bioshock Infinite?

Even stuff like letting us schedule more than four friendlies (there's no reason to limit this; if I want to tire my team out and risk injury in order to get them to gel, that should be my decision, especially since I suck at FIFA and like using friendlies to figure out who's good and who sucks) would be nice, really.…

I really wish they'd beef up the Manager Mode/Franchise Mode/Whatever the hell they call it; I'm not expecting FM levels of detail, but a little more intrigue and control would be nice.

That's a purple shirt, though...Ravens or Vikings, perhaps?

I kind of don't care about Robb's wedding, because the specifics of that are essentially the same as they are in the book; what's important is that Robb's promised to a Frey, but marries anyway, and marries a woman of lesser nobility than the Freys.

Tommen was shipped off somewhere to be left in hiding by Tyrion in the book; he's not at King's Landing during the Battle of Blackwater. He may be recalled right away by Tywin at the end of that book, I don't recall the exact time frame for his return.

If done really well, though, it can work. "Mass Effect" is probably the most notable example; we all played as Shepard, but we also all played a different version of that character.

FM was pretty much the only game I played for like three years straight, to be honest; it's equal parts entertaining and addictive. I'll check the demo out, see if it works...I'm more interested in the Westeros mod, to be honest, but for $10 on Amazon it's really pretty risk-free.

About two years ago, my wife was diagnosed with MELAS, a mitochondrial disorder. Being that mitochondrial DNA is passed down through the mother, that meant that our two children also likely have the disorder (a muscle biopsy could confirm it, but we're holding off on that until they're older). The process for…

If I'm comfortable with an in-depth sim like Football Manager, is CKII gonna be incredibly confusing, or is that the level of detail I should be expecting? Obviously it's a different kind of game, but are they similar in the level of detail I'm expected to attend to?

When a government is saying that a Blizzard might have violated trade laws, it's possible this issue has been elevated beyond "self-entitled gamers".

Because ESPN totally does these radio shows out of the goodness of their heart due to their sheer love of sport, not because they're advertising delivery devices meant to hype their on-air content and the advertising that goes with it...oh, wait.

Tali approves.

It can't be the season finale, though, because the other storylines (that've diverged from the books more significantly) still need rounded up. I wonder, though, if they'll leave Tyrion's fate for next season; it makes sense, really, to start next season with the scene at the end of the book (with pledging…

I'm not bothering on my iPod touch, but I recently bought an iPad 2 that came with 5.1 installed. I think people with newer stuff will be very happy; I tend to just leave my device jailbroken once it's there, though.

My wife never understood "The Wire" until we started watching it with subtitles; we did that for "Generation Kill", too. There's a ton of jargon and slang that makes sense contextually, but when you're listening, trying to get the accents down, and then trying to decipher the jargon into what is and isn't important…

I agree, Homicide doesn't get the respect it deserves. There are tons of "Homicide" echoes on "The Wire", too...from the board to the stories told about the street to some of the interrogation scenes.