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I didn't get far enough in Maniac Mansion to be able to answer that. All I can say is that Day of the Tentacle is excellent and I never felt like I was missing something while playing it.

I personally would skip 1, and save 2 and 3 for later. In fact Then again, I never managed to finish Manic Mansion or Zak McKracken.

Yeah, the last part of The Fate of Atlantis was absolutely horrible in terms of backtracking.

Ah, didn't realize that. I didn't switch between the modes that often.

The "old mode" will of course only have the subtitles. I think they did a rather good job with the graphics and the voice-overs (unlike with the special edition of Monkey Island), and it was quite fascinating to compare the two editions.

The Special Edition has audio commentary (with Gilbert, Schafer and Grossman), and you can switch between the old and new graphics seamlessly. Definitely worth checking out at some point.

I watched a couple of episodes. It's pretty bad, especially when compared to BBC's Sherlock.

What the hell?

I'm not quite there yet, but I did find myself getting somewhat excited about PS4, which is super weird because its most interesting property, for me, at this point is that it compares favorably to Xbox One. I was worried that Netflix, etc. would require Playstation Plus subscription, but that does not seem to be the case. Yey..

This might have been mentioned already, but Gunpoint actually has an achievement called Title Finally Relevant Help justify my early, not entirely wise choice of game name by holding someone at gunpoint with the Resolver.

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Yeah, I like ...Like Clockwork a lot. I've always enjoyed Queens of the Stone Age's quirky sound. This year has been pretty great music-wise, with new albums from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Daft Punk, and Queens of the Stone Age (among others). Also, here is some Finnish Jazz:

I agree that that it got better towards the end, and the George Michael episodes were actually pretty good. I still didn't enjoy the season as a whole.

My short review of Arrested Development Season 4: Kinda shit. The format is interesting and well-crafted (in a way), but ultimately does not really work. What it does is highlight how fucking selfish and horrible everyone in the series is and how these kind of people couldn't (shouldn't) exist in real life. In that way, Season 4 reminds me of those Simpsons images where the artist has kept the comic proportions but replaced the yellow skin with a realistic one, to show what freaks the characters actually are. As a whole, the series felt incredibly sad, pessimistic and gruel. Practically everyone is somehow intrinsically incapable of understanding other people and of changing.* The Tobias/DeBrie episodes were particularly nauseating to me, although I suspect Buster's drone pilot bit should have been more so. There was one laugh-out-loud moment towards the end, though. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it was. * This was probably the case with the first three seasons as well, but I did not pay nearly as much attention to it earlier. The new format was very effective in making everyone seem horrible, one at a time.

Good to hear Merus! I received the reviewer comments for my first article (only minor revisions needed), and got selected for a funded doctoral school position. Science week!

Epic view!

Holy shit that's awful! :( I hope things will turn out ok for your brother. Strength to you and your family.

I'm about halfway through the new season of Arrested Development. So far it has been quite unfunny, and somehow incredibly sad. I don't remember the previous seasons being nearly as grim.

Humble Bundle 8 with Hotline Miami and stuff.

For whatever reason they are SD on PC no matter how fast your internet connection. Luckily my stupid Samsung TV can play it on 5.1 Super HD.

I always named my Worms line-up after famous scientist. There are a lot of great and bizarre Wikipedia lists out there that may help or inspire you. Start here. Can you also change the nickname? If so, then these two lists might be of interest to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foods_named_after_people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventions_named_after_people "No! Those bastards shot Prince "Fillet of Beef" Albert!" yelled Richard "Bananas" Foster as he cowered behind the control panel of the downed UFO.

Had to google what blind grinding means: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blind-grind

Fixed the url.

I bet that patterned espresso cup heater top surface is going to collect a lot of dust and the console will look absolutely disgusting after one year despite your best efforts to keep it clean. Fail. Seriously though, like many of you, I find it extremely hard to get excited about the next next-gen consoles at this point. I might eventually buy one if the price is right and if game collection and media center features are good enough, but I won't be queuing to get one at launch.

I take it they bought the rights from Molyneux?