Penny Arcade

I don't actually consider it a big deal if you change your difficulty, though the outcome in this case is legitimately funny. I've done it a couple times myself, but I have to be pretty mad at a game in order to do it. If Metroid Dread had given me the option to, I might have given in on one or two of those encounters, but in that case I'm glad it didn't. Outside of sequence breaks, I like that anyone who beat that game has a shared experience. I feel the same way about…

I try not to ask people to do anything other than tolerate me a couple times a week, but there's a bill offering grants to convention supported businesses that needs support. Its purpose is to recognize that conventions have essentially been impossible, that they provide value to the communities they operate in, and that the state has an interest in supporting that industry - an industry that enables other industries. I tweeted about it earlier, Senate Bill 5770/House Bill 1879. These…

Techno-feudalism - catch the wave! I can't even maintain this posture as a joke. Obviously, happy to license or even sell IP to somebody who we think could do more with some of our settings and stories, but probably not the whole thing. It's been close a couple times, real close. I've ended up in a room with the men that try to close these deals, and they're wolves. They don't even bother with the sheep's clothing. Obviously, one hesitates to engage in unlicensed…

Well, so, it sounds like Pokemon Legends: Arceus is both a cool, new direction for Pocket Monsters and the environments are… you know, they're environments. Right? That ain't nothin'! My current guess is that we see a fancified version of this and BOTW2 on whatever a new Switch looks like, whenever a new Switch is a thing. I feel like the transition from Wii to WiiU and from WiiU to Switch tells us everything we need to know about the path they think is best, and it's…