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Permanence
SuperHOT bangs like Lester. Describing it succinctly without leveraging English euphemisms for temperature is basically Hard Mode for language. It may outstrip my power.
Child's Play Table Tennis Tourney?
We're thinking about mixing up one of our annual events - what do you think? We used to do a more traditional format a long time ago, but there's a ton of incredible players around here and it would be cool to smash them against each other.
PPT
You might recall that our own Gabrak is set to volunteer at camp; counselor orientation just wrapped up and I am given to understand it was suffused with the ancient wisdom.
The Divestiny
Because I liked The Division, aside from one or two things I'm perfectly able to live with because I'm aware of what it means to live in a finite universe, I had assumed that Gabriel would not like it. That's typically how this sort of thing shakes out. But not this time! Its starting to look like we might play (and potentially even enjoy) the same game at the same time.
Club PA Comic Preview
As I have suggested previously, one of the supernatural benefits of Club PA membership is and exclusive comic and "postito" each month. I occasionally then preview that month's comic for you, like so:
Boulevard Combatant
My primary means of interacting with fighting games these days is watching the output of serious players. I feel like I understand what is happening in a round of LoL - I know the tiny part of a spiral that is writ large when the best players interact with it. The moment to moment aspects of a Fighting Game though, like an RTS, are opaque to me. That isn't to say I don't enjoy trying to even find those primary shapes, and to discover their colors and contours, but I'm one hundred percent on some preschool shit as the metaphor would suggest.
Excommunicated
We have it downloading on the PS4 now, the one here in the office, and it is my intention to frown the entire time he plays it.
Alpha
Gabriel and the other, actual Gabriel - The Gabriel currently contained within the parenthesis of the first - have been delighted by a game called ADIOS, which is the clever truncation of Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space.
The GOG Whisperer
There's another universe where XCOM2 is how they brought the franchise back; the long fallow period of XCOM's defeat bookended by the oral history of an underground war.
Lurve
Gabriel put out the call, and I answered, but not after giving him a bunch of shit. If someone is your second choice, you need to make them feel as though they were your actual first choice and the other person is garbage can full rancid cottage cheese and weeping cantaloupe rinds. Which, you know… given the people involved… might have been a difficult position.
Everything Old Is New Again
In Australia, men's urinals are devices of unique and perhaps even baroque construction.
My Timeline
I like to take photos on my phone as I work. I do this to keep a sort of digital sketchbook I guess. I like to be able to swipe back through my photos and see the work I was doing mixed in with pics of my kids and stuff. I thought I'd drop a bunch of it here and see if you guys found it interesting. So here's a quick dump of the last couple months...minus my kids and some secret projects:)
Decrepitude
I wanted to watch a video about the Skills in The Division, and it asked me my age. I entered "40," which is apparently a number, and it was the first time I had even considered that I might be forty years old.
Guardian, Definition 3
Speculative Diction
There is probably someone who likes Dick more than me, but I don't know them. Where I am typing this now, at home on my primary machine, I have no less than four Philip K. Dick books within reach - and this isn't even where I keep my books.