Could you elaborate on how faction choice matters here? I can see it in units for sure; I love watching my dwarves to go toe-to-toe with, well, practically anyone, but I'm less thrilled when I'm trying to get some extra kills chasing them off the field and my dwarves run slower than a week in jail; erosion is more…

I'm in Grand Rapids, MI and we have been getting ravaged by the flu. We're having schools and businesses close here from it, and just this week Monday, we were down to under 40% attendance at the main building due to illness. Our Executive Director actually sent an e-mail around telling everyone to stay home as long…

Minecraft - I reinstalled it along with everything else when I got to reinstall Win 10, and my nearly-four-year old saw me playing it and was thunderstruck. Minecraft turned into the game we played together, and for months there he would daily beg me to play Minecraft with him. That stopped recently (as things with…

I loved me some Stronghold back in the day, but I remember being mightily annoyed by the way enemy siege could outrange your castle defenses no matter what you did. It set the game against itself, since the actual act of watching your defenses hold as long as they could against a massive incoming onslaught was pretty…

I'm only half-joking when I say I blame him for that thing where all of us Americans think we can do a Scottish accent and none of us can. "It's easy! Just imitate Mike Myers!"

Ahh, no Missile Command box art! Bummer. That art specifically grabbed me as a kid, because I had to think about what it had to do with the game itself—which brought that game home for 6-year-old me in a pretty major way.

Those were all surprisingly strong.

Oh! I Say!

It is! It totally is anti-woke. Unwoke? Dewoked? No idea. But it was pretty deliberately unwoked, to a degree of nonwokeness that borders on surgical.

I agree that this is a Bellator card, not a UFC one, but it's still a fight I'd rather see than watch CM get mauled by another hungry young buck. Frank's a comparable age and to hear him tell it, he's a legit martist.

And one third of that came as debt they floated to make the sale! They didn't start cutting staff the instant the deal happened because new ownership, they started cutting staff because the UFC was suddenly $1.3 billion in debt. The math behind that decision still staggers me.

Sounds like someone should be playing Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. It has mixed results on the robot dragon front, but it does add laser shuriken and throwable D20s. It ain't woke as hell, though.

I'm just not sure what the writer means, even after reading the last paragraph. (It sounds like he's not sure what the game means either, so maybe that's deliberate? I honestly don't know.)

I haven't played those, but they always struck me as a larger-scale, more thematically consistent take on that one GM that just starts rolling on the Random Encounter tables and never stops.

The will, as it turns out, is no great guarantee of success for your next captain. You can choose a single stat and the next captain will get half of it, or else a single item like a deck weapon or something.

I never even thought to try that! I did have one of those nail-biting treks home with barely enough fuel and supplies and 8 pts left on my hull, but I made it. I got like 40 terror from running the whole way with no lights, though. (That ship later fell to what appeared to be a flock of giant macaws, alas.) I had…

Ahh bummer! You nailed Master of Orion with that and you were right dead on; I can't even drum up the energy for a replay of that game after I reinstalled Win10. I don't get why asymmetrical fantasy TBSs like Dominions 4 and Endless Legend can be out there, but the SF ones all seem to turn into RPG stat-offs.

Wait, really? All I'd heard was how amazing it was; I was a lock to buy it whenever it went on a real sale (i.e. not 15% off).

When I went back to B2 years and years after playing B1, I loved that they stuck so close to the formula. All I wanted was the same thing, but different—and I got my wish! Hooray!

You're making me want to try DoW2 again. I loved the first one and just flat-out didn't enjoy CoH at all, so I took a half-look at DoW2 and just said "nope." That sounds like a lot of fun when you put it that way, and I picked up all of those when THQ had their fire sale a few years ago there so I already have them.…