Hilarious goof:
At the very end of the episode, I’d relaxed and was just enjoying the conversation. I leaned back in my chair and folded my arms and was blathering on about the elevator ride. After the episode ended I realized I’d been talking without pushing the Ventrillo talk button. So I was talking to myself.
No biggie, though. I don’t think there is much new to say about elevators at this point. Still, old jokes might have been better than dead air.
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RPharazon asks, “Programming work, a Gmod comic, a video LP, a normal LP, a weekly column, a healthy family. HOW DO YOU FIND THE TIME?”
I’ll add to that list the fact that feeding the blog, Stolen Pixels, and Shamus Plays requires an overhead of gaming time each week.
So… how do I find the time?
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Ask Me a Question: Productivity”
The problems with the Shire Post are explained.
This week we finally cave to public demand and share our thoughts on organic produce. We also critique an execution and discuss the other uses for Omni-gel.
You will never guess which comic trope I use in today’s comic.
Jack was a big part of the Mass Effect 2 marketing campaign. This marketing campaign:
(Warning, bad language and banality.)
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My first impression of the character was more or less: Oh look, it’s space-Morrigan. Only more annoying and with a more preposterous top. (How does that thing stay in place? Are we to believe that a mass effect field is being used to secure her you’re-wearing-that-wrong set of suspenders?) Just what the franchise needed. A venom-spewing nihilistic nutjob to give the series the dose of “more badass and stupid” that fans [of other games] have been clamoring for.
But it turns out that my first impression was wrong.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Mass Effect 2: Jack”
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Trek Online is a candidate for my next Shamus Plays series. I’m not playing the game in a serious way just yet. We’ve got a few weeks left with Lulzy, but I wanted to clock some time with STO so that I’ll have a few weeks to think about how the series will go.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Now Playing: Star Trek Online”
A breakdown of how this game faltered when the franchise was given to a different studio.
Why is internet news so bad, why do people prefer celebrity fluff, and how could it be made better?
The Thieves Guild quest in Skyrim is a vortex of disjointed plot-holes, contrivances, and nonsense.
As someone who loves Tolkein lore and despises silly MMO quests, this game left me deeply conflicted.
Even allegedly smart people can make life-changing blunders that seem very, very obvious in retrospect.
This is a massive step down in story, gameplay, and art design when compared to the 2014 soft reboot. Yet critics rated this one much higher. What's going on here?
A long-form analysis on one of the greatest horror games ever made.
An unhinged rant where I maybe slightly over-reacted to the water torture of Souls evangelism.
I scoured the Steam database to figure out what words were the most commonly used in game titles.
A look back at one of my favorite games. The gameplay was stellar, but the underlying story was clumsy and oddly constructed.
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