Penny Arcade

I bought Minecraft when it was ten dollars. At least, I think it was ten dollars. It was close to that. It was about that many years ago, so don't hold me to it. I think it's really cool but I never actually lost myself to it. Valheim feels like Minecraft to me, except I actually fell in. I think the first time I ever saw "PS1, but as a vibe" was Due Process, a 5v5 tactical shooter I saw at PAX East a few years back. Valheim has got some hearty pixels, but then it has incredible light…

I'll talk more about Valheim later, after I've played more. But I'd say that's the main takeaway - it's my intention to play a lot more, with more people. The most important thing to discuss at this juncture is the strange polearm in Wednesday's strip, up in the attic: When Mikhail was drawing the strip on the stream, talk turned - as it invariably does - to being hoist by one's own petard. There is a seemingly endless supply of petards, and hoists, and the…

I was playing Gunfire Reborn with Gabriil and Kara on Monday, and their youngest rounded it out. He's good at shit like this so he was an excellent addition. I asked him what he thought of the game, and he said that it was pretty good, but that it copied a lot of stuff from Fortnite. I was curious to hear this. I most often see Gunfire Reborn depicted as the twisted and unnatural spawn of Hades and Borderlands. It's Hades insofar as it has loops and permadeath I guess, and it's…

Nobody can do it! All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. It would take a while to go through what I actually mean by that. I grew up in a context where you'd say something like this, like… on Tuesday. The v45 version of myself has, in the manner of a tireless switchboard operator, hooked these metaphysical concepts up on the panel to things with more general utility than scourging nonbelievers. People generally seemed to forget that "all" up there included the person…