If you look at me, it's pretty clear that I love tattoos. The problem is that I really, really hate getting tattoos. I am a huge baby and I don't like pain. I sweat and cry and try to make jokes because that is my natural defense mechanism. This makes for great stream content I am told.

Overwatch is moving into Skyrimmian territory, a creature made manifest in all places at all times, a star-sign reckoning that a platform has come of age. I feel like there's places Overwatch may not be appropriate or maybe there's people for whom Overwatch reveals gruesome psychic fault lines which you sorta have to keep an eye on. But if this proliferation is gonna continue, they need to get on Single Sign-In like fuckin' yesterday.

World of Warcraft Classic may be difficult by modern standards, but at the time it was release it was actively, purposefully a response to to the the player cruelty that was the norm in the space. I'm fascinated that people want it but also not fully surprised, because people value the things they earn.

PAX doesn't truly end until the Enforcers have been honored at the Afterparty, and now that the ritual has been concluded in full, I can endeavor to reintegrate into normal life. The gulf between these two worlds - the one where I am Omin, Jerry, and Tycho and the one where I am somebody's Dad - is profound. I come home from doing interviews about shit and hosting events and then I do the dishes and make sure his calculator is actually in his backpack.

I've played more games at this show than I have at a PAX in years; typically PAX Unplugged takes that crown, but I've discovered a unique solution: to never, ever sleep.

We've got Acquisitions Incorporated coming up tonight at 7:30 PDT on the main Twitch channel for the show, twitch.tv/PAX. This Ravnica arc, the handoff from Chris Perkins to Jeremy Crawford ("J Craw"), has been rich from the jump, with Interns new and old throughout. This game includes WWE Superstar (you really do have to include that, it's obligatory) Xavier Woods as Bobby Zimmeruski, and we're honored to get Anna Prosser's Evelyn Marthain back at the table as well.

We were writing the strip he's gonna draw on stage this Sunday at PAX West, and he had mentioned Pizza Rolls in a meal context and not simply, like… as ballast, and I asked him if he still ate Pizza Rolls or if he was trying to delight me with some kind of ironical retro shit. He said yes - that he had Combination, which is more detail than I asked for and frankly more than I wanted.

I haven't played the game DARQ, partially because of how they chose to spell "Dark," but mostly because I've had a lot of shit to do and most of it involves some real weird wooden devils. But the story the developer tells in a medium post is one where as soon as they announced they were coming to Steam, Epic tried to pay them not to. I think that's weird.

When your CEO has to roll through and disavow your most recent Reddit excursion, we need to consider that you mighta fucked up.

The first ever collaboration between Acquisitions Intoxicated and Two Beers Brewing hits stores today - check out the can, by our own Gavin Greco and Dabe Alan:

I occasionally get a feeling that I've learned to pay very close attention to. I was walking around Brenna's campus when I was visiting out there a while back and I just started to laugh. Enough phenomena had adopted a fortuitous angle that it wouldn't be impossible to pay rent off of Penny Arcade. Improbable, maybe. But that's a gulf you can fill. My metaphor doesn't have you filling that with planning or youthful enthusiasm or anything like that. In my version, the one I've lived, you fill it with failure. You fill it with so much failure that, ultimately, you just... walk across.

Dreaded Continuity - a corrupted phrase from a haunted era - has reared its ugly head yet again, plunging all into darkness. Or jpegs, at the very least.

PAX West is just around the corner and the Penny Arcade design team has been hard at work making a bunch of cool stuff. If you're curious about what you'll be able to pick up at the show this year I've got you covered.

More exquisite dot.content from Blue Mountain eCards today - in the pulverized ruin of our society, it's nice to know you can even send a card to yourself between choking breaths. Travel through time to offer nominal comfort to a future version of yourself! Put down the shovel. Grieve at the Olympic level with Blue Mountain eCards.

I got a mail from the ESA a little while ago that… Well, we did make a comic about all of it. Maybe we start there.