Penny Arcade

Thursday night is race night. The Penny Arcade league will hit the track tonight and the Pit Crew will open at 7:30PT. Tonight we're racing Road America for a multi class event. That means there will essentially be two races happening at once on the same track. Drivers have a choice between the Cadillac CTS and the Kia Otima with the Cadillac being quite a bit faster and harder to control. You're only racing the other cars in your class but both races are happening at the same time so…

Our experience with the Co-Op in Genshin Impact - something you don't unlock until Adventure Rank 16, a kind of "meta-level" independent of characters - is that it is very, very much unlike the game proper. Not necessarily in a bad way, but because you've played so much of the game solo at that point not being able to do the things you've done for the last twenty or so hours is quite a surprise. The game itself doesn't seem to care if you play with other people ever, as near…

About a week ago Gabriel sent me the cover of a book that attempted to snare the reader with its romantic tales of brothers who were dragons but also, somehow, Irish. I was going to use the term Inexplicable to describe it, but it's super, super explicable. It is deeply, profoundly explicable: it's a sex thing. The same author offers tales of Bears - a term I was already familiar with, but these are heterosexual bears, and also actual bear bears in some way. Like, the animal. You…

I'm playing it now too, trying to put in enough time to access the multiplayer, where I can only assume the trap is truly set. Because this whole first part is basically like somebody forgot to tell them they were making a freemium game - you see the lure so often you become inured to it. The elemental systems are old school JRPG brain snacks. He's played it for God knows how long at this point, not spending a dime, and Not Spending A Dime while Getting Maximum Time out of it seems to…