I will buy Deus Ex and play it as soon as I get five fucking minutes to rub together. I've been spinning fucking gold over here on Google Docs and when I say fucking gold I mean bronze at best or even tin but weirdly enough it all takes the same amount of time to make. Even with that being firmly established, there are a couple things I know about the new one just because I'm a fan.
Mei got buffed to a gleam in a recent patch, and we made a comic that establishes the contours of my opinion on the matter. I enunciated the same position online, and I got tooken to school on Tweetzor, because my nub was showing and I had to L2P.
Gabriel is the Satan of this age, an electronic devil, and he stole victory from me before because he is a liar and a cheater and I hate him. But that is IN THE PAST. Because the next time we battle For The Watch, the field is Gears of War - a game I take very, very seriously. The highlight reel is just going to be me grinding through his torso with the chainsaw gun over and over. The Chainsaw Gun is called a Lancer, by the way. That's how you know I'm for fucking real.
I'm a little surprised that, after like eighteen years of this shit, I never named a strip "Dialogue."
I think that I understand absolutely every position on No Man's Sky, regardless of what my avatar might have related in the strip. I said that it was a personality test, but I didn't say exactly what I meant by that.
Wizards of the Coast wanted to put this year's AcqInc game out into theaters, which is pretty wild to think about. I have tried to imagine explaining this to a younger version of myself: you will play Dungeons & Dragons, which is the Devil's Game, with your friends - and it will be beamed across the nation. Right? I want to see how this goes. There's even some bonus content at the beginning for theaters, plus you get a really solid Acquisitions Incorporated adventure to take home and play with your own group that's tied into the campaign.
Here's a tender morsel of the strip I'm sending out with the newsletter tomorrow:
Groban was essentially leaking Gen Con tales for a week when he came back, or sweating them maybe; they beaded on his irregular surface. One of them was about an encounter with Margaret Weis. I should say that he had an encounter, perhaps. Judging from the particulars of his account, it's entirely possible that Margaret Weis - who must be considered fantasy royalty - had no perceptible encounter of any kind.
It's already the 15th there, and it's like two in morning as I post this, but I wanted to get one last reminder up. Tickets! Savings! We have both, condensed into a single link. See you in a couple months!
Lincoln City Oregon has been my family's vacation spot for almost as long as I can remember. I have been coming out here since I was pretty little and now I am bringing my kids out here. I drew yesterday's comic strip while I was here and it reminded me of another comic from Lincoln City. This comic from 17 years ago is another Kara and Gabe on the Oregon coast strip and it's fun to look at the difference between the two.
Celebrate with Dabe's different bird, non-infringing, game independent garment today!
We left Tycho out of the strip on Wednesdsay so he could continue to suffer at the hands of the not-men who serve Ursus Malus, who is called The Eternal Bear. I'm pretty sure this is our last excursion into this place, but you never know with these fuckin' bear cults.
Two PAX Aus notes:
No Man's Sky is one of those personality test type games. I keep reading articles about how No Man's Sky wasn't the game they expected, but I never knew what to expect from it because it's not like there was a ton of information. I mean, on purpose, obviously. You can't map a game about exploration before people have a chance to get in there. My best moment so far was walking into a mystical-ass cave and melting down with my mining laser what must have been, like, five tons of fucking gold.
In the manner of an extended Goku montage, I need to build my writing strength so that I am prepared for the challenges ahead, which may or may not revolve around engaging in literary battles with alien lords or devil gods. That's what I'm hoping. Optimally I'll be able to stand in an open plain, gaze beyond the sky, and exhort them to face me.