I'd argue that there are "puzzles" in a sense in Gone Home, they're just not implemented in a standard gameplay-reward system; they consist of the times the game gives you the fundamental building blocks of a narrative and requires you to draw meaning and create the connections between them. You're not given the…

Can't we throw him in a tent city in the desert without proper healthcare? We don't want to be soft on crime, after all.

Thanks! I dont know how I made that goof; I really like Kobo Abe's stuff. Must have had his name more to the front of my mind than Shinzo.

Oh man, Ad Hoc at Home. When I was first learning to cook, it was a therapeutic act— a way to drag myself out of bed and do something productive every single day during a spell of debilitating depression. That was my primary cookbook during that time, and I owe it a bunch. It really is incredible— a lot of comfort…

Nah, it was Abe Vigoda.

I think you're confused— he already works there, and Trump wants to fire him for refusing himself from the Russia investigation, remember?

Hell, Kobo Abe is an ultranationalist scumbag, had actual Nazis in his circle of friends, and is trying to erase Japan's history of war crimes, and people were still giving his wife props for pretending not to speak English around Donny.

And he got his boss fired and made his subordinate quit.

I don't understand; people loved the coupon.

You just cut 'em up like regular chickens?

Yessss, Pig in the City is an absolute masterpiece. So weird and beautiful, and with so much love for its characters. Incredibly well-written, too— "We were warriors, once. A murderer's shadow lies hard across my heart." Like Mad Max, it juggles a whole lot of different emotions and tones, being willing to go…

Yeah, I loved everything up until the mountain. Blow is so incredibly good at teaching players mechanics, but that last section felt like a chore and a lot of the puzzles were more deliberately frustrating than they were challenging. I threw in the towel once some of the puzzles had the added mechanic of "being really…

I do think that the reveal took a sudden swerve into a kind of pulpy sci-fi horror that I wasn't expecting. I don't think it hurt the film too much, though— that first hour or so is incredibly strong horror filmmaking. The movie does work better on buildup than on release, though.

I'm into totalitarian history and took a loot of courses in it college. It was always kind of hard to explain to people what, specifically, fascism is as an ideology. I gotta say, it's gotten easier.

I'm not sure I've ever seen someone who tries harder to be cool than Chuck Wendig does.

That makes a lot of sense. It was a bad tea— it literally just tasted like cinnamon and nothing else —it was directly competing with one of our top sellers that Oprah had already told people to buy in her magazine, and the marketing around it clearly had no idea what to do. It was just called "Oprah's Chai" and our…

Which is an odd choice, given that "Games Without Frontiers" features pissing, goons, and Nazis, making it a vastly better fit for the administration.

Also hire a communications director who knows what "on the record" means.

Hey now, let's not forget Gorka, the man who belongs to a secret society of Nazi collaborators.

Man, ever since that interview I have not been able to get the image out of my head of Bannon, pants down to his ankles, folded over into a ball and rolling around the West Wing like a Goron.