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I have a bunch of old mechanical keyboards from the '90s that will last forever. Whenever someone is throwing one out I save it. I have a PS/2 to USB adapter so that I can use them all.

"A meteor fell squarely on Naughty Dog's headquarters this morning, demolishing it and everything in a four mile radius. All Naughty Dog employees are deceased and all game assets have been destroyed. Sony said the change would not impact the development of the upcoming Uncharted for PlayStation 4. Sony said the upcoming Uncharted for PlayStation 4 is beyond mortal influence and cannot be stopped. All that we can do with respect to the upcoming Uncharted for PlayStation 4 is prepare ourselves for its inevitable coming."

The latest Batman movie, where Batman is basically fighting against Occupy Wall Street, is one where Batman is the villain, although the movie doesn't know it.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/synecdoche_new_york/news/1775535/rt_interview_charlie_kaufman_on_synecdoche_new_york/ http://www.dailytexanonline.com/life-and-arts/2013/10/14/the-daily-horror-movie-takes-a-philosophical-turn-with-“synecdoche-new-york

Presumably had he lived to the point where Bruce grew up he would have written a new will. He probably had two wills, one for if his wife also died and one for if his wife was still alive.

We are now on the "request list" for a Titanfall review copy, whatever that means. I suspect that, like the Review Grid, it is a formless entity that eats review quests in a more polite way than saying "no," but we shall see! It's interesting timing too because the site got mentioned in this thread on NeoGAF about Titanfall like, right when I sent the email asking for a review copy.

http://starcitizen.wikia.com/wiki/Anticipated_Release_Schedule

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It's a png.

As I pointed out in the first post, we have a thread for this sort of thing. This is a thread for reviewers!

The "we only review games we haven't bought" thing is an interesting idea, although from the mercenary perspective of "will it actually work" I'm a little doubtful - I suspect the people who want to see reviews of, say, Thief on the site don't want it badly enough to bother harassing the publisher or buying a copy for the site. Plus I would have to stipulate that this policy is only for new games, because as I fill out the back catalog I'm of course reviewing games I bought at one point.

So the EA person whose email I found at the end of a press release who I emailed to ask for a Titanfall review code hasn't gotten back to me, which I guess makes me 0/2 when it comes to AAA games (whereas I'm doing much better with indie games). Meanwhile people keep searching "thief" on my site's search bar and I don't think posting a review of 1998's hit stealth-em-up "Thief" is going to mollify them, which makes me tempted to buy Thief to review it. There are two issues, though: 1) I feel sort of bad getting a bunch of indie games for free (The Yawhg people sent me The Yawhg, for instance!) and then fucking buying AAA games. Like, holy shit is that the wrong way around. Guess who actually needs the money? 2) I can't just buy every AAA game to review it. That's too much money! The reason I don't feel quite as bad about getting all these indie games for free is that frankly there's no way I could even have bought all the indie games I've been given. Even when some of them are like, $5, the combination of the volume of games plus me not having any money plus this site already being deep in the red mean that there's no way this thing would be sustainable if I had to buy everything I review. Which means I don't really want to start a precedent by buying, say, Thief, which normally I would either not bother with or pick it up when it's on sale. I think I might just end up taking the path of least resistance, which is buy the AAA games I would've bought anyways and just not review games I don't get review copies of. So I might buy Titanfall since I'm pretty interested in that outside the context of reviewing it (I buy multiplayer games when they're released rather than waiting for a sale). But still, I do feel a bit yucky giving EA $60 when I can't spare $5 for the dude who (re)made Paragon.

Thoughts?

If someone can find me a free (or cheap) text to speech program I'll start up a YouTube channel for the site.

I give your reading comprehension skills a score of:

There are some things I like about Wikipedia and lots more things I don't like about Wikipedia.

Haha, totally going to make a quip about that on twitter. Thanks for the screencap!

I guess the Request Grid ate my Thief review copy request, so between that and the guy who made Banished not responding to my email I've racked up the site's first two "no review for you" situations. Kind of tempted to buy Thief since people keep searching for it on my site's search thingy and it would be fun to post that review simultaneously with the original Thief review. I've also been planning out more of the site's future - right now we're in stage 2.2 (review newly released games in addition to filling out the back catalog) (the .5 is for Twine Tuesdays which I just started - every Tuesday the site reviews a Twine game) and I think I've got something like six or eight stages planned in total or something. The # of hits I get each day have been creeping up by minuscule degrees - I imagine things will go a bit faster if I start reviewing more popular games. So with that said I just sent a request for a Titanfall review copy and I'm trying to think of other high profile releases to try my luck with. I might review the new BF4 DLC when it comes out because the China Rising review was pretty popular. On the docket right now are Disciples III: Resurrection, which is going to take more for-fucking-ever to play through, and Paragon, a cool indie puzzle game I had never heard of that's kicking my ass, plus the backlog of older games people sent me review codes for. Running a video game review website is fun!

That is tremendous.

I logged into the real time stats for the website just now and noticed ~30 people reading the Far Cry 2 and 3 reviews, all in Montreal. I guess UbiSoft Montreal must've found the site!

If only I owned a system Persona 4 could be played on!