The new thing I say when a video game ceases to be fun, by making me do something I already did over and over, is: This is not treating my time and attention as precious.

Why, yes, I did just finally get to the Meat Circus stage in Psychonauts...!

While I'm here: any game recs I need to know about? Know ye that I really really want to play Dwarf ( Read more... )

Had an excellent housewarming on Saturday. I think I had in mind a combination of the game-filled parties I'm so used to, and the sit/stand-around-drinking-and-talking parties that are more exotic to me and my ludocentric lifestyle. Since it was a round-the-clock (one lap) party, there was in fact plenty of the latter activity, but also lots of ( Read more... )

I've been reading people's interpretations about the plot of "Braid", and most of them strike me as not so much wrong as overly literal, or just incomplete. Here's my take.
( Spoilers, obviously. )

Posted some thoughts over on the shelf, which as usual don't have much to do with the actual gameplay but I think they're interesting anyway ( Read more... )

dougo is visiting to play Braid, since he doesn't have an XBox. We played the intro levels together, and then I vanished upstairs, both because I have a lot of work to do today before I go to a networking thing this evening, and because I'm very spoiler-averse and want to figure out the game's many puzzles by myself ( Read more... )