So starved for grist are the infinite screens of the Entertainment Beast that it must churn up the icons of a distant age, consume them, and disgorge them anew. Most of the time, it doesn't work. They've fucked up something, or misunderstood something; they take an opportunity to make a tin can telephone between generations and jam it down the shitter. Occasionally, very occasionally, you get Voltron: Legendary Defender.

I am mostly Kojima adjacent as a gamer. I feel strongly that I need to be aware of his movement and current location, like when you see a spider in the house; it's worthwhile to reserve a few cycles to store this data. I love to watch other people play them, and the strangeness - whatever might be said in the strip - is important. Not just where it is in his work, in its own context, but because of the people it inspires to see the state of play and be like, you know what? Fuck all that.

I know you have them - Qs that burn for our unrelenting, precision As. If only there were some kind of form you could put those in. Hmm. Hmmmm.

I finally had the opportunity to try out the Microsoft HoloLens. I’ve played around in pretty much every consumer virtual reality rig available (with the exception of the PSVR) and I love the idea of VR but they all make me a little sick. It varies from device to device but no matter if it’s the Vive or the Gear VR, I can’t go for more than about 30 minutes without getting queasy. I’d love to play VR games all day but something about the experience just doesn’t sit right with my human body. I think “mixed reality” like the Hololens might end up being better for me as I didn’t feel any of the discomfort I get with straight VR.

I am the sort of person who tries to match the cheese I am serving to the movie I’m showing when I have friends over. Or when I watch an episode of How I Met Your Mother alone. So it should come as no surprise that, on the rare week that we’ve released two new products at the same time, they’d share something in common.

I did my best, people. I did my best! I don't develop things, really; not games, in any case. I develop film occasionally. But even with my rudimentary knowledge of the form, I can establish with clarity that city simulation is not a talent housed primarily in the neck.

Here's the third Episode, which has the best promo ever. Thanks, Pat:

It never occurred to me that I should turn the deathcam thing off, but I guess it's not surprising that you can; there's far more granular options clanking around in there. Just for my own purpose, to track this over time, I will say that it's getting to the point where my Zarya is no fucking joke and Genji ("Genjamin Franklin") and that in my hands Genji continues to be an inscrutable, ineffective roboman.

I don't try to, like, "pull rank" in my house. At HolCorp, we try to leverage a flat organizational structure to maximize agility in a changing market. I'm all about what has been termed "dat collaborative decision making process." But I have definitely established that we are A Voltron Family, God Dammit, whatever my previous relationship to the brand may have been.

Gabriel the Younger's perfectly reasonable request seemed a vital crossing; like the first text you receive from a person you had a hand in creating, or when your daughter arrives at the better pun before you. The old rites of passage are confetti now, in a lot of ways; I have thus far enjoyed the process of, each day, becoming progressively more useless.

I’ve been using my Instagram a lot recently. Twitter is a good way to get information out but Instagram really makes a lot more sense to me. I guess because I am a visual guy a service based on pictures is just more in my wheelhouse. You should follow my Instagram if you like seeing sketches and other behind the scenes Penny Arcade work. We have also just launched a PAmegacorp Instagram. This feed will feature photos from the office and a peek at the work we’re all doing here. You can expect to see sneak peeks of new pins, Thornwatch, the upcoming Automata web series, Acquisitions Inc, merch and general PA office life. If you like the stuff we do here I recommend giving this new feed a follow. We just started it but I think it will end up being a really cool way to get an inside look at PA and our projects. It's also being run by Dabe who is a fantastic photographer.

First, a visual aid. This is from ten years ago. Check out Robert, reppin' the brand:

Occasionally, a Charles opportunity presents itself. This struck as a Charles Opportunity.

I think most of the numbers I know are correct, but in the frozen mists that precede an E3, you hear all kinds of shit. For example, I felt fairly certain this show was gonna be a head to head hardware slugfest, Neo v. Scorpio, which sounds thoroughly WWE. But no. Which means the Neo probably isn't coming out this year. I wouldn't have called that either. Now it's all wheels within wheels, Game of Thrones type shit. But it's fine if they don't show it. They're basically running it at this point; they don't have to do shit.

Grob's review of the new TMNT is that it was "non-toxic," which seems… Generally that's a good property in things you consume. Right?