I think the thing with Moleskines is that you're never, ever supposed to remove the paper, because it weakens the binding. If I remember right, I even read somewhere that the perforated pages should also be left in place for the same reason.

So if I bought X-Com during the Summer Sale, I should play that before I buy this, right?

I think some of it has to do with WHEN you started playing games a little. When I was first getting going (mid-90s), PC games were more interesting than console games. Also, I had access to a PC, and a console was more expensive than my parents were willing to spring for...and since I was mostly interested by the…

I play exclusively on the PC, not as a "master race" thing or anything but because I prefer it. The few times I've ventured into console games (and I have an Xbox 360, which I mostly use as a media extender) it's been basically the same game as what I play on the PC. There's also something to be said for not tying up…

So people in The Canyons are afraid to merge?

My 7 and 9 year old daughters found the maps I had for Morrowind (and the expansion set maps, which were also cool) and Oblivion and took them to use as treasure maps. While I don't actually NEED the maps (I haven't even had either game installed for at least three or four years), the 16 year old in me almost threw a…

To say that players don't have tons of industry to move in soccer is a little bit of a misnomer. Players have a lot of ways to move, it's just a question of providing leverage.

I really, really like my Fisher Space Pen. It might just be because I'm love with the gimmick, but it does seem to write smoother (and writing on a Moleskin is really, really nice).

I'm hoping there will be a Game of Thrones mod for this as well...

From my fairly limited experience, the Logitech gamepads were not durable at all; I went through about three of them in a year before finally just switching over to a PS2 controller with an adapter (which I later upgraded to an X-Box 360 controller). I mostly only played Madden for the PC when I did this, so it's been…

This really needs to be a new post every time you do it so that arguments from previous lists are omitted from the conversation.

I think that's a key, that you need to be really forgiving of yourself for budget snafus at the beginning of the process. My wife and I just started formally budgeting back in April, and this month we've really screwed up somehow; rather than trying to charge our way out of it, though, and extending the problem, we're…

I remember the island, it had a monkey and a parrot and a cannon that actually shot. Good times!

I've just started BL2, and I'm noticing the checkpoints are WAAAAY spaced out at the beginning; is this a theme through the whole game, or does it get better? I hate having to basically play through that entire area up to Flynt in one long stretch, I feel like I've been playing the same area for two days.

The checkpoint saves in Borderlands 2 are killing me right now. There's a long time between them and they don't seem to happenautomatically after boss fights. Still at the beginning, but I feel like I've been playing the same area for two days now.

About $50 (although $75 if you count the Borderlands 2 bundle and HL2.1/2.2 sale right before the Summer Sale, which I probably should); oddly enough, the game that's been keeping me from breaking open Dishonored and X-Com is FTL. I haven't had a ton of time to sit down with the other two, but that $2.50 I spent on FTL…

I have to be honest, I think WeekCal is still better than Fantastical, and I'm still not sure how it lost that survey.

Not so far as I know, but I might suck at online games, so there's a trade-off.

How do people find Steam friends? I rarely play multiplayer but it'd be fun to do it with people from Kotaku if I did; I hate just gaming with random strangers.

For a long time I avoided games like Civ5 because I'm terrible at RTS games and these have a similar mindset, but then I played Football Manager and dumped about 3,000 hours over three years into those games (according to Steam's stats, at least; a lot of that was downtime where the game was on but I was doing other…