Glitchless thus far, because I'm trying to see how good I can do without ever reading about or watching examples of the things actual speedrunners do. Working from first principles, so to speak.

Sorry to hear about your mom. I hope being the kind of family that can come together around really dark humor in tough times helps you all through them.

I put the Cthulu rulebook on my Christmas list because of these recaps.

Your posts are always a pleasure to read, but this one has a high-level of practical utility: these in-depth FFXV comments are invaluable to me as I try to figure out whether to get it for milady this Christmas! Thanks!

A standalone game does indeed let them explore the concept more! It's a delight. You'll have a lot of fun!

Yet again, I'll be thinking "shit, I need to finish Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice! Damned November is the busiest month of the semester, but after today I'm on a regular and eventually reduced work schedule for the rest of the year, so maybe that will happen this weekend!

That's appalling!

Actually, it's a Sunday, although we get the Monday off, which is nice.

I couldn't say for sure because I am not a big flavoured coffee guy! And because there's always a real coffee place within a few blocks of any Starbucks.

We actually just have a holiday called Thanksgiving, except it's in October, doesn't shut the internet down for four days, and involves no consumerist orgy the day after!

Canada!

My stupid anti-virus software has started hitting me with a pop-up ad every half hour to tell me that Black Friday is coming. Not only am I Canadian, even if I was living right in the middle of the American Heartland I wouldn't see the biggest retail day of the year as the obvious day to upgrade my antivirus software!

You Americans and your crazy giant weekend in the middle of November! I've got days to go before I get a weekend…

I think it's less "they put them first!" than "they don't put them down in the dirt where they belong!"

Fi is wonderful! A parody of earlier Zelda games' overly handholdy helper characters who got a bad rap from people who think she's just being overly handholdy (I mean, fair enough, since the joke obviously involves her giving pedantic advice and if you don't like the joke then it's just pedantic advice).

Despite the flagrant wrongness of not including Mario Galaxy 2 and Skyward Sword (well, you've got conventional wisdom on your side there!), this is an excellent list with excellent capsule reviews.

Thank you for this clarification! The kind of thing where I "know" all of that stuff, but if I tried to explain it I'd wind up saying "Greek" when I meant "Latin" or something similarly disastrous.

"with excellent motion controls"

Marking papers and D&D!

I think "octopodes" is the technically correct pluralisation?