I'd just been playing a few community maps this weekend and wondered where that dialogue came from... I kept thinking perhaps the level creator had ripped it from the main storyline and I'd simply forgotten. Good to know that it's new.

Ha, I love it. I'd have never noticed the absurdity of the chair until the kid was removed. Reminds me of Garfield Minus Garfield, revealing the truth that was there all along by removing the red herring.

Whoops, should have sourced by images:

Fantastic.

The greatest mom in the galaxy.

The title question there—read in the turret voice in my head—is what pushes this one over the top. Nice work.

Now there's the logical choice, because we can't be sure the other three have anything but gaping, empty eye sockets behind those sunglasses.

(wall of text approved). To take one example, I agree that the current 3DS numbers are actually quite good compared to Nintendo's older handhelds prior to the temporary boon on the DS Lite, when it managed to introduce touchscreen gaming (Brain Age had gargantuan sales numbers) to the masses ahead of smartphones.…

(comment approved) Thanks for that, it's interesting to hear about the culture of developers behind these things. I work in a different tech niche than gaming, but I also have found conferences to be a crucial way to get a sense of what others are doing and to make connections with the wider base. I wondered if E3…

The original designer also calls him Clippy, so the nickname seems to be fairly official and widely used.

WHAT'S A MOBLIN DOING ON THE FIRST SCREEN ???

I'd have to say Clippy is worse, because he's part of Microsoft Office, ie. the software that is ruining the world every damn day.

Yeah, Ben Drowned scared me late one night when I stumbled across it. It's not that it was ever plausible for a moment... but it doesn't matter, the thought is still rather terrifying. I used to have nightmares as a kid of my computer and video games coming on in the night with various messages to me frozen on the…

Damn those hypotenuses and math! And now I just made it worse. Our multiplier is up to 15X effort now.

But you see... I knew it had something vaguely to do with Blizzard, so I didn't really care to expend any effort Googling something I'm fairly certain not to like. Commenting two times now on this article is already 10x the effort I meant to expend! I'll show myself out.

Finally this DOTA acronym is explained to me. I'm being quite honest when I say that I had no idea what it referenced until this very moment.

Sadly, I would probably watch that anime.

Pffft... enough of your acrimonious acronyms.

So that's how it's done.

BAM (magical comment approval gun)