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Early Onset Coot Disease

Undertale is the New Game You Have To Like Or You Don't Get It. These sanctified vessels are selected by an organization that is either lofty or subterranean, I haven't decided, and one of the cool things about being old is that I don't care.

All Through The House, Part Four

That's a wrap for All Through The House. Like any of our other "babies" - weird story things which are not primarily about dogs eating a man's balls or exploding dicks - this one has the occasional suitor. One of these is going to get all the way to a screen someday, and I don't mean because we did it ourselves. I mean somebody's gonna make one of these a "real boy," and it could launch on the same day as a new Star Wars and I would still be pleased.

All Through The House, Part Two

One of the "delights," which I guess I don't 100% mind but whatever, is that before I can get a newspost typed up over here I typically have to spend a half an hour or so fixing the computer I'm working on. I wouldn't even know how to compare the machines my parents own to my own machines or computers in general. I'm not surprised that people hate computers if this is their experience with them. Just as a point of reference, when I click the mouse on my computer, shit happens. Forces are marshalled and great engines roar. On my mom's laptop, there is a mouse attached, but it does nothing, like a vestigial tail.

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PAX South Tabletop Indie Showcase

We offer free booth space to game developers at the conventions, but it takes a little different shape depending on where you go: PAX 10 was the original "indie" showcase, at East it's similar but focuses on mobile, and the newest show in San Antonio focuses exclusively on tabletop offerings.

I Am Not Your Father

It is really weird that there is a new Star Wars movie out! And they are just going to keep coming now. "There is another" hitting around next year around this time. I barely know what to do with this information, and even the information I do have is porous. I know that in The Force Awakens there is some kind of lightsaber person and one of the robots is round. That's basically the state of play. It doesn't seem like a lot to hang a movie on, but who knows.

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Cliff Bleszinski At PAX South

One index of the esteem I hold Cliff Bleszinski in is that I can spell his last name without looking it up. He has been making games of one kind or another since basically forever. And, having spent more than a decade now in one long, perpetually interesting time, we're going to check in with him at the PAX South Storytime and see what's going on with him these days.

Exposition

I mean, yeah; from a purely numerical standpoint the Child's Play Charity Dinner And Auction was a roaring success, with just under two hundred thousand dollars raised in a night. This must be considered a joy spigot. But upon the completion of our noble labors, it occurred to Gribz that he might wring out a few more bucks from people by having me remove my coat and perform a little dance that has been called "by turns sad and terrifying" and "the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse."

Validation Syndrome

Something I have been trying to figure out for a while is this weird inferiority complex some people who write about games seem to have about games. I've been thinking about it for ten years or so, and I only figured it out last night.

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Scarytown

I realized, with some horror, that we had not covered Gabriel's perspective on Rainbow Six, which is that it is "bad" and also "not good." What's more, perpetually descending into fortified lairs is not, for him, a scenario correlated with relaxation.

Internecine

Most of the Heroes of the Storm we played happened in the Alpha, and then the Beta, beginning when it didn't really have anything like a unified interface. The general rule is that Blizzard doesn't release something as a Beta unless another company would release it at retail, and I think that mostly held true here also.