Kids are human; they aren't always rooting for the good guy. My four-year-old likes the villain more often than not, and he's basically a sweet little kid.

Do you have to drink it with the side of your mouth just because you got used to it that way once and it's now perfectly normal?

It's like the Godfather with a lady who throws tigers!

Not just at your home base, but also scattered across settlements all over the wasteland. Yeah, I have no idea. It's not like people haven't been howling about inventory management since Oblivion or earlier. Now, they have a system that increases the level of complexity on a couple of different metrics, but the…

I said I wasn't going to pick at nits for Fallout 4, because I love this game, but I do have to confess that certain choices seem better suited for comedy than drama. My current favorite is the fact that on mouse-and-keyboard, the melee key and grenade key default to being the same key. Tap L-Alt to strike a foe in…

The Civil Wars were straight up folk, but they had an uncommon intensity. You might like them: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Ooo, that one's going on the list for sure. Thank you. I'm finding that some deliberate sound-engineering-manipulation in the mix fits what I'm looking for, for some reason, which necessarily lessens the impact the older ones have (through no fault of their own, of course.)

Thank you both! I have listened to each a bit, and will try them some more.

I have a rookie question for you music types. Without delving too deeply into my personal life, I've found that my musical tastes have been turning towards weepy doom'n'gloom lately. For sadness, I've been into Faunts, (which, I basically always was anyway) Down Like Silver and Saint Saviour and a few specific…

Oh, much agreed; that's not my beef with Tolkien at all. My beef with Tolkien is that if you read Lord of the Rings and Froissart's Chronicles (of the Hundred Years' War) side-by-side, he uses the exact same language to describe the orcs that that Froissart used to describe the peasantry. I mean, it's the exact same…

Fellow "shooting guns since before I can remember / don't own any now and find the whole thing slightly horrifying now" guy here. Great piece, with just a couple things I'd add to it.

I agree, there are nits to pick. I wildly overbuilt Sanctuary (I took "build up not out" to comedic lengths) and found myself irked that I can build a town more or less from scratch but I can't manage to put a wall together so the seams don't show, scrapheap or no. But when I thought about it, the fact that I even…

I haven't been worrying about bargains much lately, but Bundlestars is having a couple solid cheapos worth mentioning for you PC players out there. Mad Max is all of $4 USD if you feel like crashing a car into someone else's car (it's quite good for that) at
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What's your preferred class?

Have you ever played Sins of a Solar Empire?

I won't beat @disqus_ILtufvURzj:disqus 's story, but realizing that I could beat the Master in the first Fallout by running up to him and dropping about 80 lbs of dynamite in front of him was an Amazing Gaming Moment for me.

I fear that your revelation re: gamers wanting familiar cheapness is not terribly unwarranted.

It's happened before… http://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn…

I'd be curious to hear how Terraria stacks up against its successors and predecessors on a first-time playthrough. It's been out-Minecrafted by Minecraft and of course there are a zillion Starboundalikes out there now.

Hopefully you get it working. I tried to get back into it and somewhere along the way, Win10 decided it didn't like Borderlands and vice versa. There was a bad breakup. Harsh language was involved.