Let me take this opportunity to express my immediate adoration of the word "thinged."

Glad you dug it! My favorite reference to the originals (and this had to be pointed out to me) was that apparently in the stores, Doyle forgot at one point where Watson's old war wound was, and it switched from the leg to the shoulder — hence the reveal that his limp is psychosomatic, and he was never shot in the leg.

I'm blushing so hard, I'm going to go seek isolation with a famous guru until I recover. Thanks!

I'm clearly George, huh? Is it my beard? I'm guessing it's my beard, because I'm only fair-to-middling on the sitar.

I've considered teaching from time to time, maybe as a second career later in life. But the prospect of an Evil Campaign sounds way more fun.

You seem to be confusing liking a book with liking/sympathizing with the protagonist. I thought Walter and Patty were both fairly unpleasant people. I was interested in the complexity of their lives and their relationships — with each other, with their families, with the community around them — far more than I was…

Several of us are Filmspotting fans, but it's so consistent from week to week that I'm not sure how we'd review it beyond explaining what it covered in a given week. It follows a very fixed formula.

No, but I feel a weird urge to go comfort a weeping pony.

Emilio came across as very sincere and earnest in our sit-down. Martin came across as hilarious. He ushered me into their interview suite personally, yelling "THE ONION! THE ONION IS COMING! THE ONION IS IN THE HOUSE!" or some such, in a goofy faux-Cockney accent. It was really pretty adorable. I'd love to have a beer…

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Heh. It was; so is "Virgin Suicides." I read Kevin's reference in the review as first-person plural. Weirdly enough, he's since contacted me to let me know that this book IS first-person plural, and he got his voices mixed up. I'm correcting it.

There aren't many of them. IIRC, "Then We Came To The End" is mostly third-person plural but has at least one chapter that breaks the voice. I think "The Virgin Suicides" might be third-person plural throughout.

THANK you. I was so frustrated not being able to recall that, and of course after the podcast I failed to look it up.

It's also possible that people just don't know our site terminology. The "tag" is the teaser sentence that appears on the front page of the site, or on the games page. Those are written by editorial staff, almost never by the reviewer. A lot of the objection seemed to come from the front-page assertion that the…

Not on their goodwill in terms of benevolent charity, but… I formed a guild and was fairly active in helping build other people's improvements, but never seemed to get back nearly as much as I was putting in; it felt like the other guildies just weren't paying as much attention to the cooperation mechanic. And when…

@Dr.Robuttnik, can you clarify what you mean by having problems if you edit too often? That's an issue I don't think we've encountered before. Much like the issue with @LloydBraun, whom Disqus has apparently IDed as a spammer. We haven't been deleting his posts, they've been turning up in our spam filter moderation…

Also, thanks for the six-days-vs-seven correction; you're right, I'd misinterpreted that. I've updated it.

I didn't write the Infestor brief, but I have played the whole thing through. My big frustration was that the levels were all very linear and obvious, and there were never any decisions to be made: If there was a box to be moved, the workman would be standing right in front of it. If there was a door to be opened, the…

It's designed to be a long, long haul to get to your first shop expansion without microtransactions — you basically have to amass $25k in in-game money while making $500 to $1k per game day. Some days, you won't even manage a profit at all. Once you finally get your third employee, the game moves along at a better…