Here's the strip we did for Wednesday's Make-A-Strip panel, concerning Gabriel's legitimately weird gambling prowess. It seems like you couldn't really have gambling "prowess." It seems like a game with a very specific outcome and what he does in these places shouldn't be happening. If he gets anywhere near a computer, the machine ceases to be a computer at all; but when he gets near a table, pit bosses start to sweat from their necks and they don't know why. I used to think I was good at…
I'm completely obsessed with Westworld. There are a lot of articles about Westworld, but I don't read them; I only talk to my friends about it. I know enough from the headlines out barking for their wares inside that HBO has essentially weaponized the thinkpiece as a modus of self-promotion. But how could you not write about it, is my question. We're constantly hearing about the eternal, whirling dangers of games aping cinema, or not being willing to accept that they exist in the continuum…
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Why am I awake at 2:43 in the morning, when I SHOULD be asleep? Ask fucking Firaxis, they'll tell you. They'll tell you that, in collaboration with Satan the Devil, they made an electronic prison for the mind. But I managed to escape long enough to deliver unto you a vision of incredible merchandise, all of which can be clicked to see larger versions: (CW)TB (but please, call me The Thunderbolt Of The North)
I fly enough now that anything below five hours or so I don't even feel. There are flights I like less than others. Flying down into the desert bowl of Las Vegas is generally more exciting than I'd like. "Exciting" in this case meaning that it's easy to imagine the plane becoming two smaller, useless un-planes by virtue of whatever forces are making the plane behave in what Jane Austen might have called an "ungentleman-like manner." Gabriel wasn't able to make the trip to Australia…
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Stitches on Kickstarter
Halloween seems like the right day to push a game where you make monsters out of other monster parts and then use those monsters to fight another, weirder monster. I know…
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Prioritas
Civilization VI is out, which you might know already, because you have become fused with your computer over the last week or so and are reading this post as data shunted…
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Pinny Arcade: PAX Aus Pin Quest!
I usually don't get to put up the Pin Quest, but Gabe is drawing like two weeks of comics to get ready for PAX Aus so I've got the tiller. I'm cranked, though, because this…
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