I'm excited for this format. A game like this is approximately the length of three seasons of Westworld, and the rush to blow through all that and get a timely response up is more likely to produce a half-baked response than a more measured format.
And granted, the problem is more endemic to games journalism and…

A very good point, and I should have made a point to address that in my recommendation.

I'm surprised that stance isn't more common place. My family and I went out for an idle hike a few weeks back and while we were walking along a boat landing, I noticed a truck with a climate change hoax bumper sticker. And I wonder how people who live in the country, who are outside all day for sport and leisure,…

I grew up in a small town with a lot of hunters. It took me a long time to figure out that decrying the sport for cruelty through a mouthful of Burger King was perhaps a bit hypocritical on my part.

My friend showed me the collected 2nd edition Monster Manual specifically for Diterlizzi's work. It was the first time with of us had seen his work, or anything like it in D&D. As a rule, 2nd edition's art was uniformly terrible and I didn't know you could make something like that. It was gorgeous and so inventive.…

Corrected, and thanks for mentioning it.

AD&D Fiend Folio

I do in fact talk about the Kenku. They're neat, is basically what I say about them.

There are certainly less applicable parallels right now.

Yeah, I have no idea, either. I barely understand my own proclivities, much less anyone else's.

To be honest, I don't know the full details. I think it's a lot of talk with very little actual money changing hands. Beyond her fee for services rendered, at least.

There was a great piece on Love + Radio where they interview Ceara Lynch, a "Humiliatrix". Basically a sub-type of dominatrix that specializes in, well, humiliation. She dabbles in financial domination as well and had a really fantastic explanation of it. Basically it's a loss of control fantasy like all dom…

Having worked at multiple natural food co-ops, I've seen assholes across the whole spectrum of dietary considerations, but I do find meat-eaters who fixate on their meat-eating identity more awful than any of the veg/vegan advocates I knew (with the exception of that one person, but she was awful for lots of reasons).
I…

They really aren't trying too hard at all. Just trying to wring the last few ounces out of a five year old game. I don't mind the clunky models so much, because I'm more into the game for the bucolic wandering, but as much as I like it, I wouldn't be buying it again for what the upgrade offers.

Yeah, there's not too much to it. It's the game bundled with all the dlc and a slight graphics tweak to make it a more palatable purchase for console gamers. If you already have the game and all the dlc on pc, you get the game for free because even Bethesda knows slightly foggier forest glens can't justify a new…

I'm currently waiting for Skyrim: Special edition to download. What I wasn't aware of -but should have been- is it's a separate game, not simply an overly on your existing Skyrim. I read it's possible to copy/paste save files, unless they're modded, in which case they won't work. I have a few environmental mods and I…

I was trying to find an online version of Devil Doll to link to in this piece, because it's pretty much the last word in Chick Tract parody. Making fun of Jack Chick is pretty low-hanging fruit and can be done too easily with no real thought to craft beyond fundies are weird. But Clowes is obviously perfectly…

The thing about us is, we don't tend to keep our problems local.

My apologies. I'll stop punching you immediately.

Unicron.