Wouldn't an even more obvious entry point be Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs: 1985–2003?

I have to admit that I'm not too familiar with the game myself, but the below mentioned Dustforce has a reputation of being a high speed, precise platformer that comes, incidentally, with its own level editor. Maybe that might be interesting to you?

I feel you, even though I wouldn't consider myself burned out yet.
It's just that I thought that 2014 would be the Year of Kickstarter (TM) for me, but in the end, it was not really that.

Yeah, for some reason, the part about the flesh wound on the leg that goes by unnoticed alone creeped me out in a way I didn't think was possible, conjuring images I'm not sure I have witnessed myself sometime in the past. I don't think I could make it through the movie, and I usually am pretty hardened when it comes…

I guess the "pretty well written"-part is largely due to the co-author, who probably had a bigger influence on the book than a lot of articles (this one included, which does not even mention him) do imply.

Well… French fries are French fries around here, but we call them "les French fries".

Unfortunately, going the Dragon Age route and have everyone sound like French knights fresh out of Monty Python and The Holy Grail isn't that much better, I fear…

Nice to see the spotlight turned on this movie — it really is astonishing to look at, but not as well known as it would deserve. The strings-as-lifestrings are such an obvious metaphor, but the scenes where they are violently cut from one of the puppets are brutal in a strange way…

Exact same thing here. I finished and loved both Demon's Souls and Dark Souls (even though I am really bad at PvP), and I had even pre-ordered Dark Souls 2… but about 12 hours in, I just wandered away.

"Inklewriter" is also a nice, free and easy tool for writing interactive fiction of the CYOA variety. I think most of their games are made with the tool, even though they obviously look deep under the hood to work in more complex systems like those they use in 80 Days.

*clenches his windows tablet, runs sobbing to his room, closes the door*

Do you know the How Long To Beat-website?

I read Gene Wolfe's "Book of The New Sun" for the first time last year, and it really blew my mind — it's so rich, and inventive, that it really makes me wonder why I didn't find out about it earlier. Virtually every encounter with a new creature in the book is at the same time deeply strange, intriguing and…

I only played it two years ago, and loved it. The fan patch is a must, unfortunately, and there are two sections in the game that are notoriously bad and unbalanced — the sewers somewhere in the middle of the game and basically the whole end section. Trust me when I say that it's perfectly acceptable to use console…

Well, easy: Kentucky Route Zero did make a stealth-announcement again and just released their new interlude, Here and There Along The Echo. As usual, I don't have any idea what it is about, but it has none other than Will Oldham (!) as narrator.

Ok, I can get behind that!

I wouldn't be that negative, but it certainly is one game that I would have loved to love, but simply couldn't.

Honest question: can you tell me why so many people do recommend watching that Let's Play instead of, you know, playing the game?

If I remember correctly, really-not-that-bad indie-horror movie The Signal (2007) did a Did Dug and showed us that yes, a bycicle pump is indeed a viable tool for blowing up people's heads.

Great choices, all around!