So many of the books that were formative to me I found via Videogames, which I feel like is pretty odd. Shit, maybe all of them - all the ones I still think about are either from a videogame directly, or were just downstream from the books they revealed.

Kinda speaks for itself, I think. Tell your friends:

I need new books. I was reading a book Kate Welch/Rosie Beestinger/Yitzbin Attende handed over at PAX East called Children Of Time, which is fucking rad, and then I read the sequel "Children Of Ruin," which wasn't as good, but let me hang out in that world a little bit longer.

Clubhouse Games on the Switch is probably the polar opposite of The Last of Us 2. As in, like, exactly across from it on the diagram. It's clean. It's gentle, and life affirming. It's friendly. It believes that we can improve ourselves by moving very small things around in specific ways. And it does so with a breathtaking grace.

The kids are on summer break now which brings and end to about three months of home schooling. I can't even begin to imagine the long term damage my "teaching" has done.  Now, I’m playing lots of great games and reading some really good books so I thought I’d share. 

I couldn't watch the streams for very long. There was a lot of pain in them. Not sure how many people are gonna take Facebook up on their offer of safe harbor; I'm pretty sure I saw people streaming the Twitch account creation process live on Mixer. Here was Grob's take:

I think I would like to see Naughty Dog's Seattle; it was cool to see what they did with the place in inFAMOUS. The Playstation is the platform you go to for dire visions of the city I live in, apparently. But I honestly can't think of anything I need less than The Last Of Us 2 right now. I see trailers and clips and shit and it's a lot of wet sounds and incredibly intimate knife violence. No. Just, fuckin'... no.

Brenna always asks me what I want to do for Father's Day, and the answer is always "nothing." Not because I want to sit, wholly inert, in some kind of Sith meditation chamber, but because I spend most days hyperventilating deep in the gulf between my potential and my manifested actions. So I'm gonna do the sorts of things I usually do, the only difference is I'm not going to feel bad the whole time.

It's all true! Well, I guess it depends on what you're asking. It's not true that a lobster can become president. But if you're asking if PAX is going Online this year, something like a… PAX Online, well, that's all true. And you already have a ticket! Nice; those can be hard to get.

We need to consider the idea that EA - when it comes to their stewardship of the Star Wars IP - is starting to get it:

The most recent season of Destiny has pulled me back in after months away. I really like the public events and the new exotic Witherhoard is an absolute blast. No matter what I intend to do when I get back into Destiny, I always end up spending the vast majority of my time playing Crucible. As it stands, I’m up until midnight most nights in the capture and hold playlist. The ability for the Witherhoard to lock out zones with it’s AOE really makes this mode fresh. I have to admit that I do not understand the Drifter’s new engram system at all. I guess I’m collecting twisted energy and altered elemental trace overrides so that I can level up my umbral decoder, the efficacy of which is directly determined by the overall level of my prismatic recaster. Or something like that. 

I've put up a couple posts about the Garage Sale on the store, but I did want to indicate two things: the sale ends tomorrow, Monday 6/15, emphatically not today.  I am dumb.  And also: the Pinny Arcade Double Secret Boxes go on sale at 4pm PDT today.  The sale is going gangbusters so far, and I have feelings about it.

Woof, as they say.

It's time to make room for new stuff, and judging by what Lidija put together, it's time to make a LOT of room.  Starting this Saturday, it's the...

I can never figure out if VR is a thing or not. I know a lot of people who make games, so I'm glad that - at least for a time - platforms and publishers got it into their heads that they should give those people money to chart and contextualize that trackless expanse. But I also saw the back half of it, where even a multiplatform VR game built on a globally revered license can't pay for itself. So, you take that money because you're not, like… dumb, but it's typically not going to build any kind of stability for you long term. These are the calculations.