Really? I'm expecting a slaughtered church in the near(ish) future, followed shortly thereafter by a full-on peasant revolt that claims some lives.

I think the field is an easy bet this week.

I'm no Cleganebowler and I think Jaime's not going anywhere, but I still like the cut of your jib. I thought several of the article's predictions were way off.

I am not impressed with this oddsmaker. Maybe he's good at odds but hasn't read the books or watched the show that carefully? Brienne at 3-1 and the field at 15-1 are just dumb.

Brotherhood of Banners, if they do anything at all like what they do in the books. It doesn't even have to be a Lady Stoneheart thing, it could just be a physical proximity thing.

Much agreed. Sonic's even in the Steam sale, but the bundle is a far better deal at every tier. I wonder how the law works in something like this?

My apologies; meant it as a joke.

Papers, Please is one of those games that is both a great game and so unpleasant to think about at all that I didn't last more than an evening at it. Great game, mad props to the devs—now stay away from me, please, I've got enough problems.

It's funny, too, how once I started writing like that as a player, I found I'd get a much better sense of a new group much faster by how they reacted to that. I remember one group, I briefly mentioned my character's family (like, one sentence) and the room looked at me in stunned silence. I lasted one night there.

I should just do that. I started unfriending everyone I'm not currently in active contact with and whose posts are entirely opinions and it turned into a bloodbath.

Bargainwatch: Steam Sales Make This Fairly Irrelevant edition - So, there's a Steam sale. I posted this literally word-for-word earlier in the thread, but I'm reposting because it's something of a derail down there and because I'm really curious to hear how other people have experienced this:
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I'm convinced that Steam…

Can't hurt! Tons of people play PC games on a gamepad these days, and there are tons of gamepads out there that work on them. It's common enough that plenty of PC games are designed with a gamepad interface in mind first, and the ol' mouse-and-keyboard interface second.

Oh yeah, also should've mentioned: Telltale's Game of Thrones games use QuickTime Events like crazy, which, if you didn't want jumpy reaction time-type games, you might not enjoy them. Everyone seemed to love Telltale's GoT games—except me, who got so frustrated by them that I uninstalled after twenty minutes or so.

I get why nobody wants to read each other's CK2 debriefings, but retelling the action of that game as history - if only to yourself - is half the fun.

No, it's fair. You like what you like; I just wanted to come up with games that seemed like they'd be a good fit. Did you ever try Talos Principle? It's got a similar gameplay hook but a very different tone, writing-wise.

I loved EL. I like ES well enough, but there is no endgame of any kind, just an early game and a loooooooong wrap-up. I was thunderstruck by EL, though; it's the first game of the Master of Magic wannabes that caught the zippy pacing and shifting tone of that classic.

Honestly, Portal and Portal 2 sound like the games I would most recommend to you. They use a first-person logic but are puzzle games, so you can sit and work out what you want to do next in them, they're funny as hell and they're incredibly well-designed games. I'd love to tell you about my favorite strategy games,…

I'm convinced that Steam sales are slowly-but-steadily declining in overall effect, and I'm convinced that it's no accident. When they needed to establish a market base, you could get a one-year-old AAA title like Far Cry 2 or Just Cause for $5, but these days, I don't really expect to see Fallout 4 for under $20 for…

Civ 4 is great, and its addons are like eight different Civ games for super cheap. If I had to pick one Civ game, it would be 4 with all the DLC.

(Endless Legend is a TBS, fwiw. Otherwise, some solid recommendations here, although Crusader Kings II will probably seem impossibly wonky if you're used to console games.)