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Also, there are occasional deals where you get 15months of ps+ for $60, so another way to think of it is that the $100 price difference between the consoles probably gets you nearly 2 years of ps+.

Gaimain does something like this with Neverwhere & American Gods. Tim Powers does some good stuff in this vein too; I mostly liked Declare and Last Call. Hm I guess Declare doesn't really work because it is another time, but it's 20th century still, so I dunno.

Oh JiG. There are a ton of neat point n click flash games linked from there. Some highlights for me (which are not necessarily particularly myst-like but worth checking out regardless): the series of games by Aztec http://jayisgames.com/tag/aztec the "core" series: http://jayisgames.com/tag/jfeltham oh man that's a blast from the past. apparently I emailed in to let them know about one of those Aztec games and have forgotten all about it. edit: oh Neutral's escape games are pretty neat too: http://jayisgames.com/tag/neutral If you want to just check a single one out, skip the Christmas ones as they're kind of lighter fare.

Oh yeah, forgot about that. That's totally myst-like and great.

http://kairo.lockeddoorpuzzle.com/ Kairo is pretty Myst-like

Do a let's play of "how to get all the tv achievements"

I don't think it's that no one understands. Nor even that no one cares. More that nobody has the money to fight Nintendo's lawyers, and if you're going to pick a hill to die on (get litigated into the poor house on), there are worse offenders out there.

BEST

"I'm a wizard and that looks fucked up" versus "WizzaaAAaard" (edit: or shitty wizard, either way) "Scoops" versus "Hot Scoops" edit2: both casts even have their own respective dota fiends. So much beef material to be mined here, I will be disappoint if it is not brought up at all.

here's a freebie, MS marketing: call the thing Xbox Unity. gets you away from "xbone" and "but but but it's the third one" same basic semantic/hermeneutic payload Seriously, wtf.

I think you're missing an alternate (potential) interpretation which is that patriarchy is pervasive enough that it affects the way people behave in real life (even women when they are speaking amongst themselves outside of the presence of men) and that's a genuinely fucked up thing/probably even more so than the way women are portrayed in media etc.

*shrug* Conventions are only convention so long as games adhere to them.

I dunno. That's sort of like saying the genre is incapable of changing while pointing at an example that isn't really trying to be innovative (well aside from presentation-wise) at all.

he could both be crazy AND trying to pad his post count at the same time. The two aren't mutually exclusive...

that kickstarter bit was goddamn amazing.

I am awful at this (more than an hour in, haven't even managed earth orbit). Although I have managed to fail in spectacular ways, once managing a proper explosion due to overheating. Pro tip: 8xsolid fuel boosters (the kind you can't control throttle on) is...probably too much.

I dunno if I've wandered in here to recommend any of it before, but Roberto Bolaño's work is worth checking out. Of the two I've read, The Savage Detectives is more approachable (kind of a bohemian road trip by way of Cortazar's Hopscotch, minus the weird formal experimentalism), but his magnum opus is 2666 (wikipedia, spoilers though). If you do try out 2666 (and at 900 odd pages, it's daunting to be sure), be aware that the first entire section (~1/5 of the book) makes it difficult to give a shit about the characters, but on the other hand, it's kind of intentional? I've heard good things about Nazi Literature in the Americas and By Night in Chile also, but haven't read them.

I do the globe and mail cryptics with my Dad. Working together, we average over 3/4 completion probably. Though to be fair the globe and mail cryptics are not particularly hard so far as cryptics go. I like the cryptics because compared to regular crosswords, they rely more on word games like puns and anagrams than they do knowledge of factual trivia.

also relevant: http://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2013/04/a-letter-to-letter.html?m=1 http://www.mattiebrice.com/triptychs/

re the final battle

Super late to the party, but I'm really liking this. Not done yet, but one thing that occurs to me playing through it is there's a very metroidvania feel to it, what with things like the torch, rope arrows, and shotgun letting you access previously inaccessible areas. edit: also I think it plays better than the uncharteds (which, aside from 1, I liked), but I'm missing the banter from always having an npc around. I mean I get that it may have not been tonally appropriate for the story they wanted to tell about Lara having to rely on herself etc., but still.

I haven't tried it, but worth noting that it was free last I checked.

I'm in at $20.

Is this testing whether I'm a Replicant or a homosexual, Mr. Deckard? sorry