Black Panther was one of the best parts of Civil War, I just… I bought into him completely. He stands outside the rest of the established power structures in a way that exposes them as weird-ass pageants. 100% gonna watch this movie.

At long last! The long road that started with the "Bring Automata To Life" Kickstarter is nearing its end. Download links to watch the show have been sent out to backers. Would you like to see the trailer? Huh? Wouldja?!

Playing games with Gabriel, as I have for many years, involves a certain cadence. Around ten o'clock at night the action must pause while he obtains and then noisily processes snacks of various kinds. Historically, it was Oreos.

The Mario Marathon has been marathonning Mario in support of Child's Play for a thousand Earth years. Now they're getting into the home stretch on their 2017 run, with some Super Mario Sunshine. Check 'em out!

I am typing this at Disney World. They have invented a kind of magnet that works on money, here, and it works really, really well. They have a kind of watch you wear that doesn't tell time, but does allow you to spend money in an almost frictionless way and I have. I'm glad that I came down right after the C Team but came home before our Warmachine show we do with Privateer Press, because it provided a kind of upper bound on my losses. Also, they have a root beer float you can get by the pool only it's not root beer it's Guinness. A dangerous juxtaposition.

It's quite true: in the near future, Mike Krahulik will be running Acquisitions Incorporated: The "C" Team for an unforgettable one shot tabletop experience to remember dot com. I know what he's planning on doing, and it is not dumb but is in fact super rad. I knew shit had gotten real when he said that he had to go to Michaels. And I don't mean his house. I mean like this Michaels.

After Gabriel tried Arms during the Global Test Punch and bounced completely off the experience, I did my best to advocate for the game. There's something here, I said. Discrete, particular hands are an illusion, I said - the hand is a mutable concept. There's a way to mash buttons playing the game but that's not where it tops out. It looks goofy as hell, but don't be fooled.

I would have thought that Escape Rooms would be the kind of nerd shit that wouldn't catch.

I love Professor Layton and I love Ace Attorney. Gabriel does not. And it turns out that if you put both of those games together he likes them even less.

I'm not even interested in peeling the Exclusivity onion. The only medicine for these Goddamn maneuvers is to tend a fucking menagerie of consoles so that you can never be flanked by these beasts. Here is our exxxclusive guide to exclusivity - only at Pronny Urcrod Dort Crim.

Brenna went out and saw Wonder Woman last night, and was enraptured; I am given to understand that evil did not endure. Gabreel only had single problem with the film that I know about, and we had to make it up for the strip.

Battleborn just went free-to-play-but-not-really-it's-just-a-perpetual-free-trial-and-alternative-business-model-which-I-can't-meaningfully-distinguish-from-f2p, or something, and maybe that'll work for them. Games go free with varying levels of success; Star Wars: the Old Republic is often hailed as an optimal example, though it's starting to become clear to me that many of my friends are super into ESO. Retail launch for these service-product chimaerae looks more and more like the the disposable first stage of a rocket.

We started doing it for PAX Aus with some cool, unique stuff you can throw into your cart with your tickets, and we have some items we're trying out for PAX Prime I Mean West:

This didn't happen to us; it happened to one of our crew. Specifically, our Engineer.

Kiko asked me if Star Trek: Bridge Crew was VR's "Killer App." I could hear the quotation marks around Killer App; he was trying to create a kind of ironic gully around the term. But he also really wanted to know if it was the Killer App. I'll tell you what I told him.

One year at PAX Aus, Kristin (whose work you absolutely know from PAX and Child's Play) was splitting a room with Kiko. Whenever she was not ensuring the utmost experience for attendees, she was shotgunning episodes of Supernatural. The more I tugged on this thread, the more I discovered that… Supernaturality was everywhere. And its agents were implanted deep, deep in the office.