This is a really dumb nitpick of a really easy joke, but--that cover is all wrong. It’s not dramatic enough and it’s not in a minor key, either. It needs to be bombastic, slow, over-produced, and sound like a parody of sadness.

He's just a poor man's Bowie who was lucky to find The Smiths when he did. 

Why was there an explanation of the joke in the last paragraph?

After detailed and thoughtful analysis like this, I really don’t understand why the “debate” continued and became so toxic and aggressive

The best advice I can give about Crusader Kings games is that the people out there who play to ‘win’ tend to be humourless and tedious lot: play to experience. You will find successes. You will find failures. You will find lives cut frustratingly short, and others agonizingly prolonged. Take it all for the experience…

I mean, it really comes across like you do

Second Assassin’s Creed 2. I almost 100-percented it and I never do that with any game. All I needed to do was finish collecting the feathers or whatever the collectibles are. It was the first time I felt like, “Holy crap, I could platinum a game. And without that much effort!”

If you’re going to 100% any of them, Assassin’s Creed 2 was the most reasonable one. There were more collectibles than in the first one, but IIRC, they also added purchasable maps to show which collectibles you were missing, so you weren’t just scrutinizing every back yard and climbing every tree and pushing against…

My own Battletech play through is getting bogged down by atrocious load times. I’ve stripped it down to only two save games and I’m still forced to do silly things like get off the couch and do chores in between missions. 

Got the platinum in Mass Effect Legendary so now I am working on Mass Effect 2. Not that far in yet, but got Garrus back on my squad. I love these games and I think at this pace I will be on-track to finish them all before Ratchet & Clank is out! I need to work on New Pokémon Snap still, but the pull of Mass Effect is…

I know how you feel. My long time 5E group contains two individuals who would rather not be there. As a consequence we only do monthly sessions if we’re lucky. 

Sunday marks the start of a lovely 8 day weekend I booked for myself after working 6 days a week for 2 years. I will be playing and beating SMT 3 HD, Subnautica (and possibly Below Zero), and whatever else strikes my fancy. After that I go back to work at much saner 5 days a week. Whew. I’m gonna relax all over the…

Started playing Human Fall Flat. I thought that it would be at the very least entertaining to rag-doll around as the wife and child shout out hints and instructions. Unfortunately the game is too straight-forward for that. Honestly I’ve found the game more frustrating than entertaining. The controls aren’t tight…

I’ve been in the very bad habit of starting a bunch of JRPGs and not sticking with them over the past year, so I’m buckling down and doing my best to focus on a couple I was already pretty far in. Currently, that’s mainly been the 3ds version of Dragon Quest VIII, which I think I’m halfway through. Compared to XI (the…

I need to finish ME1 so I can enjoy ME2, the best of the bunch.

Feros is terminally dull as a level to play. Epitome of brown and grey.

Last weekend’s roleplaying was a mixed bag.

maybe not as much as recently, as i actually have a friend coming to visit this weekend! We’re all vaccinated, so he’s gonna come out and spend saturday/sunday in the new house. I’m pretty excited. But tonight, after knocking out some yardwork, I’ll probably keep up my Returnal/Spider-Man Remastered combo. Returnal is…

I’m playing Far Cry 2 for the umpteenth time.

I haven’t played an Assassin’s Creed since Black Flag (which I didn’t beat), and I can’t say this article makes me miss it. I prefer my Assassin’s Creed to contain sneaking and throat stabbing, and from what I hear it’s become a series more akin to The Witcher 3 than early Assassin’s Creed games. Plus, ya know,…