I have not worked at GameStop, but I have worked at retail for 8 years and your problem is entirely your own doing.

Totally understood—and before anything else, I owe you an apology for my own hostility. I teach, and as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I have confronted a student with a gun during my career; this particular topic is very close to my heart, and one that infuriates and terrifies me in equal measure (I’d rather not die at…

Eh. Other nations have their own share of violent crime, as well; I worked in England in 2003, and at the time, there was a significant upswing in knife violence in London.

People have the capacity to be wonderful and monstrous to each other within seconds of each state. Firearms just make it a lot easier to be a…

Misreading is often a function of poor initial communication.

If your issue is with the Gamergate knuckle-draggers who are forever howling about “muh vidya games,” then there are a multitude of reasons that you should’ve disassociated with them well before now. Their misogyny, willingness to get women in the industry…

I agree with you in that there is an absolutely horrific element in “gamer” culture writ large that first found its voice in the Gamergate movement, and has been actively scummy ever since.

However, blaming mass firearm violence on gamer culture is the sort of part-for-whole thinking that misses the forest for the…

Huzzah! GamerCat is back! Our persistence has paid off!

I will be linking to this article (and the previous one) for my students during the fall semester when I cover the subject of plagiarism. I try to have a new “real-world” story for them every semester, to demonstrate that plagiarism has professional and legal consequences well beyond the academic sphere, and this one…

Honest question. Why won’t you bring back Gamer Cat? And remove Nerd Rage? I’m genuinely puzzled why this isn’t happening, despite all the weekly requests for it, and would like to know the reasoning behind it.

Weed does do that to some people.

This is a REALLY good batch of comics. Life in Aggro was legitimately funny, Corpse Run is TRUE (playing Okami now, actually), and Double XP was REALLY good. Well done everyone

Corpse Run was amazing.

No. The Anime is based on game. The original game is on PSP. It’s monhun with super power. Malee/Gun/Shield switchable weapon on the fly, Mixing pallet projectile and effects (I love this one, You could put bomb after homing to get homing bomb, or scatter and then laser to get multiple laser beam, etc.), air combo,…

Its a post apocalypse monster hunter, with weapon/ammo customization, and actually has a story.

Monster Hunter with maximum anime tropes and a grimdark setting. Get it to find out what Freedom Wars was shamelessly ripping off.

Best comic this week

It was just... wrong. And I’m still cracking up.

Wait, a “tips for playing” that isn’t “turn off all the things?” Did I enter an alternative universe?

Can I ask who, who wanted this? Who are they marketing this to? Crazy people? It wasn’t thaat great of a game to port and there are much better games of that era that would have a lot of hype behind them.