I thought they did "see what [we] wrote there", once upon a time, but who would be silly enough to sift through the thousands of Simpsons quotes and gimmick accounts now? Other than us, I mean?

I bought a few, including Dark Souls, which I played for an hour and a half before deciding I'd rather play it on the 360. Farewell, my six U.S. dollars, you were not long for this world.

The only thing "essential" you get from the gigolo missions are new sub-weapons; you start with the pew-pew shooter, but you can get two from the first girl and one from the third girl. You could skip them entirely, though, since you don't actually need any, excepting the one you start with.

If you like Catan, but the dice rolls are getting you down, I know there's a set of "event cards" you can get to replace the dice. They have a normal distribution of dice rolls, so you're less likely to never see one number, but you're supposed to skip a few cards to add a little bit of randomness. I haven't tried…

Are you going to play any of the X games after? If nothing else, I'd consider the first one essential. It actually came out before 7 and 8, curiously enough.

I had the chance to try some new card and board games recently!

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (ABC, 8 p.m.): Snoopy serves popcorn, ice cream, and toast to Charlie Brown's hosts at Thanksgiving dinner.

"Can I play the piano anymore?"
"No."
"Well, I— oh."

I remember being pleasantly surprised by Tangled, which I had originally passed over, and I loved Wreck-It Ralph; given the strength of those two movies, I should consider catching this one in theatres.

Sometimes… what we don’t touch is just as important as what we do, and withholding can be just as important as giving your all.

It's been years since I thought about it, but for some reason this reminded me of The Unholy Saga of Where.gif. I don't know the full context, but it's about a particularly indecipherable puzzle on a forum (or something) dedicated to those sorts of things.

A Time to Kill Zones

Triage is an interesting concept and I do think you could make a good game out of it, if Pandemic or Flashpoint don't already fit the bill, but in Mage Knight, it's more like, "I can't walk five feet due to all these swords and shields I'm carrying." To phrase it less obliquely: being unable to move any significant…

I hope there's a doctor in the library 'cause those literary burns are sick!

If it's anything like the other Mario games I'm thinking of, you have to be running, then pull the analog stick in the opposite direction and jump when Mario is skidding to a stop.

I can't say I've noticed any drastic change in quality between seasons three and four, but the episodes are definitely more focused so far. As mentioned, I prefer Baltar as the underdog, since watching him lie (badly) was usually cringeworthy, but now he has the chance to show some conviction now and again. The reveal…

Bioshock's sequel and Spec Ops: The Line actually suffered the reverse, grafting a superfluous multiplayer game onto a decent single player campaign.

"Have you looked at our uniforms recently?"
"No."
"They're black all over, with glowing red eyes. Have you noticed?"
"I don't…"
"Are we the baddies?"

[Cutaway to an angry, yelling mob riding a miniature train past Rick Schroeder.]

Video games and booze? Sounds like a good plan for the weekend.