Right. By now I'm sure many of you have heard about Michael Thomsen's WaPo review of Super Mario Maker. Suffice it to say that I found it really freaking obnoxious. Others did, too. I didn't see many people defending it, and I can imagine some reasonable ones; Tom Auxier at least had a couple reasonable explanations for… Continue reading Teachable Moment
Category: Bizarrely Out of Character
Object Lesson
I'm gonna keep this short and sweet, ideally, because this situation has become so absurd that I'm not even sure it's real anymore. So there's a fighting game by FK Digital called Chaos Code. It came out last year-ish? Around the same time as AquaPazza. I bought it for a pretty cheap price (around $10, I think)… Continue reading Object Lesson
Lewd-ology
So I've been doing everything in my power to... well, power through the end of Dragon Age: Inquisition, since I've already sunk 70 hours into it. With the sudden reversal of the games press's game-of-the-year sentiments, it seems like now is the time before my motivation evaporates. Probably the most widely-discussed critique of DA:I to make the… Continue reading Lewd-ology
L&O: SVU MPD
(Fair warning: massive spoilers for season 11, episode 13 of L&O: SVU in this post.) Okay. Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. It may be because I live alone, and if I don't have the sound of other human voices in my apartment I will seriously just go insane and start shanking someone, but a… Continue reading L&O: SVU MPD