I keep grabbing JRPGs and not liking them, and it's got me worried, because I've always thought of myself as someone who liked those. Even when one worms its way through my ventral guard plates I almost never actually finish them. The more inviting they've gotten to a mainstream audience, the less I've enjoyed them I guess. I'm not trying to adopt a pose, here. I liked them more when they were "boring." I really did like watching a bunch of people stand stock-still while I fucked around in some menus.

Dogs are a theme that runs through a lot of my favorite strips in the archive. Apparently? I just found this out. Like, the one with the Canid is big with Tychos in every demo. There is an old New Year's Resolution type strip which also features dogs that I like a lot, and today's strip is the sequel. I know what you're thinking! How do you top that. My answer: even more dogs.

The time we spent with Cho'gall gave us the impression that we liked Heroes of the Storm! Except we don't. Or, we do, as long as we're playing Cho'gall. Playing that dude, or... that pile of dudes, is like playing another game altogether while everyone else is playing HotS.

It's been a while since I checked my Penny Arcade email address so I thought I'd dive in there and see what you all have to say!

I'm not kidding. Three new rad things, plus Push Fight and DSBs (the latter of which might be gone by the time I hit post) are back in limited quantities.

I have no idea what Tycho is talking about but I think we agree. If you asked me why I thought Undertale was stupid I'd just tell you it looked like shit and made no fucking sense. It is the videogame equivalent of the nonsense symbols crazy people draw on their walls with shit. Maybe you super like it? That probably just means you're cooler than me. Luckily there's tons of other rad games to play.

Undertale is the New Game You Have To Like Or You Don't Get It. These sanctified vessels are selected by an organization that is either lofty or subterranean, I haven't decided, and one of the cool things about being old is that I don't care.

That's a wrap for All Through The House. Like any of our other "babies" - weird story things which are not primarily about dogs eating a man's balls or exploding dicks - this one has the occasional suitor. One of these is going to get all the way to a screen someday, and I don't mean because we did it ourselves. I mean somebody's gonna make one of these a "real boy," and it could launch on the same day as a new Star Wars and I would still be pleased.

AW SHIT! It's gettin' kinda hectic.

One of the "delights," which I guess I don't 100% mind but whatever, is that before I can get a newspost typed up over here I typically have to spend a half an hour or so fixing the computer I'm working on. I wouldn't even know how to compare the machines my parents own to my own machines or computers in general. I'm not surprised that people hate computers if this is their experience with them. Just as a point of reference, when I click the mouse on my computer, shit happens. Forces are marshalled and great engines roar. On my mom's laptop, there is a mouse attached, but it does nothing, like a vestigial tail.

We offer free booth space to game developers at the conventions, but it takes a little different shape depending on where you go: PAX 10 was the original "indie" showcase, at East it's similar but focuses on mobile, and the newest show in San Antonio focuses exclusively on tabletop offerings.

Running a total of four strips, Nightlight: All Through The House is a four strip Nightlight story about, you know. Things that permeate houses, I guess! You'll know when you see it.

It is really weird that there is a new Star Wars movie out! And they are just going to keep coming now. "There is another" hitting around next year around this time. I barely know what to do with this information, and even the information I do have is porous. I know that in The Force Awakens there is some kind of lightsaber person and one of the robots is round. That's basically the state of play. It doesn't seem like a lot to hang a movie on, but who knows.

Merry Christmas.

According to The Compact struck between Brenna and I, we must venture over the frozen Devil's Teeth every other year to the hated Spokane, a corruption of Sa Pako Chaon which in the Bureaucratic Mode of the Mid-Hell tongue means "That Place Which Is Arguably Worse Than Other Places."

One index of the esteem I hold Cliff Bleszinski in is that I can spell his last name without looking it up. He has been making games of one kind or another since basically forever. And, having spent more than a decade now in one long, perpetually interesting time, we're going to check in with him at the PAX South Storytime and see what's going on with him these days.