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Game at the Bottom
Why spend millions on visuals that are just a distraction from the REAL game of hotbar-watching?
Civilization VI
I'm a very casual fan of the series, but I gave Civilization VI a look to see what was up with this nuclear war simulator.
This Game is Too Videogame-y
What's wrong with a game being "too videogameish"?
Fixing Match 3
For one of the most popular casual games in existence, Match 3 is actually really broken. Until one developer fixed it.
The Terrible New Thing
Fidget spinners are ruining education! We need to... oh, never mind the fad is over. This is not the first time we've had a dumb moral panic.
It seems there is a joke regarding Gimli and Legolas but I don’t get it. Can anyone help me out?
I’m pretty sure it’s just a set-up for the next strip. Shamus ended this strip the same way, then started the next strip talking about what happened to Legolas and Gimli. Their friendship is a big secondary story in the books, but the epilogue also gets into some lore Peter Jackson didn’t have a good way to explore in the movies. So it’s not as significant there. It’s kind-of like Gandalf, before he returns to Valinar, says he’s going to go have a LONG TALK with Tom Bombadil, who isn’t included in the movies at all.
And I’m still sat here going “what happens to Legolas and me?”
Oh good I didn’t have to be the one to say it. Because I certainly thought it!
“Aye, me can do that.”
The last panel’s grammar may not be correct, but it sounds more stilted-medieval. Gimli’s player might be from the early Bioware fantasy RPG era, and do things like that deliberately?
Then again, his is an out of character question, so maybe not.
“What happens to Legolas and my good self, my good man?”
I do like Aragorn’s player’s unbridled delight, not at being king or wedding Arwen, but at Gandalf leaving.
I forgot how quickly this comic wraps up; I only read it after it was finished, so I didn’t have the experience of it coming out, but this remake has been part of my routine for…some time (however long it’s been running now) and it’ll be weird not having a new strip each week.
I took the liberty of looking back in the archives, the first remaster post was on January 1, 2023.
So nearly exactly 3 years. Give or take however many strips there are left.
What a wild, fun ride it’s been.
Unlike the film, where there’s always more endings than you remember.