Hmn. I remember first hearing the rumor Episode 1 would introduce midichloreans. I dismissed it as not possibly being true, because the Star Trek-esque over-explainy fake science quality totally contradicted the hippy vagueness of Star Wars. And here we are. Nevertheless, I will continue to hope this is bullshit.

As one who has been exposed to and immersed in Star Wars nearly since birth, Star Wars fans are the worst.

I don't understand why that theory has been glommed onto so passionately. I guess that could be the path the movie follows, but it's not a particularly interesting or insightful one. The level of enthusiasm for what would be a really disappointing creative decision baffles me.

Oh, man. I did. Hostile space sirens who suck out people's insides in the infinite black goo of the subconscious has nothing on just seeing an unattended toddler on a beach at night. That scene wrecked me.

C'mon man, I had a deadline! I mean… yes …I will.

It's not. I was actually able to get Carson just as he finished tagging that wall. I can tell him what you said about his hat if you want.

My long-planned machinations finally see fruition!

Aw, shoot, Dave. That's too kind.

When I was first planning this essay, I had, what I thought, the brilliant idea to do a riff of Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son with the King and Prince.
I googled the painting for reference, and one of the first things that popped up was that very illustration as a failed Threadless t-shirt submission. You're never…

Not with that magnificent hair I can't.

Lego are just so expensive regardless. I didn't really want to focus on the pricing for everything, because short of the game being a buggy, non-functioning rip-off, or incredibly skint with content, people have a pretty broad hobby budget. As another commentor pointed out; if you're into tabletop wargaming, you're…

Yeah, I remember being upset when they began giving Lego guys facial expressions and facial hair. I thought it was silly pandering to the already perfectly stylized yellow smiley face. Michael Chabon wrote an essay in part about how he hated it when Lego introduced the minifig, because it forced a sense of scale onto…

It plays exactly like Traveler Tale's other Lego games. You collect studs, you build stuff. Everyone makes super-corny jokes. The main caveat is, when you're in a character-specific expansion level, at least 50% of the missions and unlockables all require special abilities only available from purchased characters. On…

I'm still Spacemonkey to my internet friends. I hope the job search is a positive thing going on in your life and not the opposite.

Hooray! All it took was a bit of Dragon Age to coax you into a non-Gameological article comment thread!

Yes! Absolutely. The guttural idle of the Magnum Opus as the exhaust drips little gobbets of flame was so satisfying.

I think you're absolutely right. I enjoyed playing the game perhaps far more than the review lets on, but I could never get over the dissonance between the character they were attempting to present so faithfully and the obligations of the open-world format. It would be a great, lean, supercharged 8-10 hour game.

I got a rock.

It was. It was stealthing underneath a cardboard box marked with Mario essays.

Shucks… Thanks, VM!