ME TOO. I always get excited when I hear she's been cast in things, I'm all "She's so good in Mad Men!"

I don't know WHY you decided to drop that quote right here, but there's no such thing as a bad time for quoting Look Around You. Rock on, GoochExtension. Rock on.

He was amazing in Lucy. His job was literally just to show up occasionally and say what magic power Lucy had at whatever brain percentage she was at. It was great.

Ted Fast Ted Furious?

I used to play around with redstone quite a bit. My favorite thing I ever made was a giant water-flow puzzle. There was a reservoir at the top, and when you pushed a button water would drop out of it through a ten by ten grid of pistons, all of which you could control with a massive bank of levers. You had to use…

I work with 1st through 4th graders as part of my non-A.V. Club job, and it's staggering how many kids you see wearing Minecraft shirts. I actually made a few math posters for the kids using diamonds and lava, and I got a ton of cred with some of them when my girlfriend gave me a Creeper figurine for Valentine's Day…

I haven't played the game in a while, but it really does do survival horror really well. Nothing like desperately trying to find your way back to the surface, a few fresh diamonds in hand, as things move around and behind you in the darkness.

I love Super Meat Boy, but the thing I like about The Binding Of Isaac is that it's accessible for less dextrous gamers. As opposed to SMB, where the major gate for progress is skill, in TBOI, it's knowledge. Knowing what items do, how bosses move, how the levels are built - you can get really good at the game without…

It can actually get pretty chuggy, presumably because it's built in Flash. You definitely don't want to play it with a bunch of tabs open in your browser.

To be clear, I STILL don't have the damn thing. Stupid Dark Boy achievement. I've had two different runs where Mom hits me seconds before I finish her off.

The Binding of Isaac was my fiancee's favorite game. She watched me play it a few times, and then asked if she could give it a try. A week later, I bought her a copy so I could get my computer back. The day she achieved Platinum God before me was one of the most strained days of our relationship.

They might as well have called it "Please Nobody Get Mad At Us, We're Not Talking About YOUR Country-stan"

Thanks! I tried to find a joke that wasn't rooted in '90s TV, but you can't escape who you are.

Ground Kontrol is great (I am stupidly addicted to that four-player competitive Pac-Man game), but I think the difference is that it's a bar - for me, an arcade isn't really an arcade unless there are kids wandering around unattended.

For me, it's the immediacy of the multiplayer, standing at the cabinet side-by-side with friends or strangers. You can replicate that with MAME if you work for it, but there's something about just tossing in a quarter and joining in on a quest with someone you've never met.

Galloping Ghost is great - awesome selection, and a very fair price. The only trouble is it's a bit of a schlep to get out there. I like to provoke the world's most minimal bout of jealousy in my podcast-loving friends by recounting the time I went out there with a group of fans of the Joystiq podcast and played…

I was just in Chicago, and I hung out for a bit at Headquarters Beercade. It is easily my favorite of the barcades I've been to, because a) they had a pretty hefty pinball selection, and b) 95% of the machines were set to free play.

Not to mention "Burn My Bread," from Persona 3, an entire huge epic song that plays over both the opening sequence AND the final boss fight, and it's about making toast.

Fair enough. It's your, very real, loss. It's a 15-year-old PC game, and I've never encountered a more thoughtful story in all of gaming, and few outside it.

I won't go into length on this, because I've actually written a needlessly long essay on this elsewhere, but that intent to upset and wear the player out works perfectly until you get to the resolution.