Made! My day is. Now if I can only explain rickrolling sweetly and succinctly to my family, so that they may get the maximum enjoyment out of the link.

aloneinthedark.jpg: the "modern-day banking simulator" one

Well hell. That's one of the questions?

@jaw70: A little bubble of coolness just popped sadly somewhere, raining its remnants on the uncaring crowd below.

Well, woot. A Tom Waits reference on Kotaku. Happy New Year indeed. *hoists aspirin and a water glass*

Yay, Patapon! You know you're innovative! *waves flags*

Oh, Stanford. We know, we know. It's hard being the only Ivy League on the West Coast. You try to make the others respect you. You try to resist accusations of sun and sun-tanned bodies being a lure with trump cards of "intrinsic territoriality" and gratuitous masculinity.

I would so play your MMO. When we were little, my sister and I played "They Know They're Toys" all the time. Bring that action to my MMO? That would be sweet. Though I wonder if Disney might try to ruffle feathers over intellectual infringement on its Toy Story series. Not that I wouldn't mind launching ping pong…

@KSPRAYDAD (The PlayStation is $250 with a PlayStation Visa....: Sure, you could write this off as gratuitously emo.

Was that a claymation cutscene slipped in there, or am I just bleary-eyed too early in the morning?

Thank you for pointing out that fingerprint—I know neither the series nor the games, but I appreciate that they're taking the time to put in details like that. Out of curiosity, I was struck by the toast texture in the squirrel shot—is that normal for Wallace and Gromit? I thought it was all clay but, again, I'm not…

@DeltaKnightOne: My original copy was on the Mac, on floppy disks. But in revenge for being abandoned for a two-week family vacation when I was little, our beagle chewed through the plastic case of disk six, exposing the fragile, floppy part and peppering it with numerous tooth-holes. Dog's lucky I'm forgiving.

Dear Cake: Lie to me, baby. I am mixing that up just as soon as I locate a whipped cream dispenser whose nozzle doesn't draw blood. I bought it to tremble tantalizingly atop my ice cream, not to perform surgery with. And though the last one cries out for my attention and that of my sweet tooth, any of them look…

Again with the nipple guards. Have we not learned? They're ridiculous. If you shell out for steel-tipped nipple guards, one would expect something of a fortress down below. And Batman seems to be dangerously lacking in that department. So please—let the nips rest. (And no, I'm not talking about the cover…

Hear hear on the Wall Street daylight savings or something of the kind. My cousin is sitting on two kids, a wife pregnant with twins, a house whose mortgage he has yet to pay, and a recently ganked (i.e., from him) job. This is just not the time, people. Look at the date, for crying out loud! What will two weeks…

@The Amazing Exploding-Man: But where do you draw the line? That's the dilemma. "It's okay to treat group X like Y, because it's their culture." Would you let the encourage the practice of genital mutilation in a given group, because it's their culture? Do you let a mother and child die, because it is their…

@kylo4iskyle4: Nah, it has nothing to do with writing. It is blue pill week, my friend. Aflame with estrogen, I am wrath incarnate.

Ditto to the last sentence. Though I think I may wait until the expansion packs to see if they're going to keep doing the same packs for each release. I found that so frustrating with Sims 2. "I had pets in the last game. Why do I have to pay for them again?" Ah, well. Every once in a while you just get that…

Why am I not surprised? Oh, because since coming here I've seen around 20 women grovel at the feet of their male overseers. And been spat on. That was yesterday. That was fun, let me tell you.

Oh dear, oh dear. This is, what, the third Disturbance in the Workforce post in 36 hours? Give or take. Aspyr particularly concerns me as a Mac user. I have Boot Camp and don't need the services Aspyr provides per se, but it seems important to have companies who port out there, making it clear to people who are on…