I haven't even seen any of the leaks; they are effervescent, and quickly boil away. I just know that there are a steady set of leaks for a game that is considered synonymous with the industry, and it only blooms narratively from there: now in addition to the data heist we've got crypto, and for a brief time there was a supposed Dead Man's Switch that would have released the game to the world if anything happens to him. Just unbelievable stuff. I hope the "Cyberleek Entity" is having fun while it lasts. You know? Order DoorDash or something. Do it up.

I always thought the comparison between "Actual Play" and Pornography was kind of a silly joke that had a little bit of truth in it, like all jokes which have the capacity to endure. Apparently this is something that people fought over, and were subsequently dissuaded from, all before I ever got to it. It's certainly never stopped me before. Previous interlocutors might have been dissuaded on account of their social station or desire to appease a cryptographically cycling moral framework. In my degraded state, laid low by my…. Well, by my "me," currying favor is not only beneath me it's literally impossible.

Whenever Gabe gets a bee in his bonnet about something, I tend to benefit. So do you, ultimately. When he got seriously into Formula 1, somehow by the end of it we were operating a racing reality show via Motorsport Manager with larger than life characters and life-changing stakes every week. I guess the actual cars were also cool.

For what always felt like a one-off experiment, Splatoon has had a long and successful career of being The Weird Kid in the family. If you have a child on the spectrum, there is a chance that you know a lot about Splatoon. In my experience, they're often ready to detail things for you. I suspect there's something about growing up feeling like an alien that makes this hyperpop, alternate-earth music video feel like home.

Ronia got back from Brand New Day with a lot of questions about Jean Grey, and it seemed like I might have to make a Powerpoint deck or something to paper over the fact that I failed as a father - as a man. There's a lot of comic shit I haven't told her, I guess. There's a lot of it out there! I chose the path of curation; we did not come to rest on any of this quotidian mutant fare When those assholes at Marvel finally get around to Ryan North' and Erica Henderson's run on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Ronia will know Goddamn near everything. The only comfort I have otherwise is that Gabriel failed in this task also. Worse probably! Way worse I bet, when you really think about it altogether.

Among fighting game developers, one stands out as more damp and weird than the others. Their carapace is more mottled, their palps somehow more pedi than the rest. Arc System Works! We've been fans of their fermented, piquant takes on the genre for a while and were delighted to see they'd managed to enter the 3D era without giving up the incredible silhouettes of their 2D heritage. Gabriel thought he might sip the summerwine one last time with Marvel Tokon, as he had in the days of his exultant youth, but he says that he washed out during the tutorial. I don't have the game, so I don't know what that would even look like, but the tutorial for 2XKO was perverse enough that I might be able to guess. It was like Operant Conditioning, like I was gonna have to falsify some number of lights at some point or murder a public figure. I didn't even dislike it, necessarily! But it did feel like I was being psychologically terraformed by a force alien to our Earth.