T w e n t y S i d e d
Muah ha ha ha ha! Once my plans are complete everyone will realize that I am… THE BAD GUY!
Hardware Review
So what happens when a SOFTWARE engineer tries to review hardware? This. This happens.
Who Broke the In-Game Economy?
Why are RPG economies so bad? Why are shopkeepers so mercenary, why are the prices so crazy, and why do you always end up a gazillionaire by the end of the game? Can't we just have a sensible balanced economy?
The Best of 2015
My picks for what was important, awesome, or worth talking about in 2015.
Object-Oriented Debate
There are two major schools of thought about how you should write software. Here's what they are and why people argue about it.
The Death of Half-Life
Valve still hasn't admitted it, but the Half-Life franchise is dead. So what made these games so popular anyway?
Ha! I especially liked the punchline, good comic.
Nice comic and yeah, the punchline is pretty damn good ^^
Nitpicking: “Then, if I wait until you grow up AN get married”. “And” is missing a “d”.
Unless he was doing an accent, in which case it would be a deliberate omission – though technically, to indicate that, it would need an apostrophe, so “an'”, as opposed to “and” or “an”…
Nit-picked backatcha ;)
It’s still LuciEn, you know…
Lucian is a real world name, so I guess the confusion comes from there. It´s the writer fault. He decided to take one not-so-used of the real world, and then changed one letter to show his superb creative skills.
Also, it happens when the character fails at being memorable.
The punchline made me chortle milk through my nose. Ugh, hahaha. Well done, sir!
In my case, the “Lucian” thing happened because I ran a couple of D&D campaigns with a character named LuciAn, and I have typed the name that way many, many times. My fingers don’t like doing it the other way.
Didn’t you say something about having a column in the Escapist today? Is that up, yet?
The pokemon punchline was a mother-lode of comedy gold!
…one a’ dem days, I’ll get myself an account at the escapist, too, so I can spread the fanboi-ism around a little!
CLassic
Another thumbs-up for the Pokemon bit — that was perfect. :D
And seriously, is it really that hard to come up with an actual evil-mastermind type of plan? :P
I think it’s the same mentality that has people running and playing RPGs, whether tabletop or on the computer, to think that the greatest ambition any thief character could ever have would be to become the Bestest Pickpocket In The World!!! :/ I tried arguing about that in a game I used to work in, pointing out that there are other things high level thieves could do, that Al Capone wasn’t known for picking pockets. No luck. And things haven’t changed since then. [sigh]
Angie
Haha! I reaffirm the greatness of the punchline.
Wow. That is some serious bloom lighting.