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Get well soon.

HAAAAPPPY BIRTHDAY.

It looks really good and fun, the only thing that keeps me from getting it is my love of being productive. Maybe for X-mas.

Ah, ok. As someone who regularly has trouble with games, I'll probably have to pass. I know you guys all say it's a good kind of difficult, a rewarding kind, but I get angry playing the simplest games. I think this game might actually kill me.

So good!

It may be worth adding a category for order games via amazon.com

Very nice piece. So is this why I haven't really wanted to play any games at all lately? Everything is just the same old thing lately...

I am, of course, jealous of you Leigh. Since I tend to transpose everything you write about games into the world of comics (even though this transposition frequently doesn't make sense, and even though I love games dearly--Symphony of the Night being tattooed onto the pleasure centers of my brain), I can't help wishing that I received such ... Read Morereactions when I told people that I wanted to do graduate studies in comics. This may speak to your fervent wish that video games never go the way of comics, into an insular little backwater--which is fair enough. I've accepted that the joys and intellectual fulfillment I get from comics doesn't require notice on a broader cultural stage (beyond, say, the occasional couple of page in the NYT Magazine or a section of the Virginia Quarterly Review). But I do sometimes wish that conversations with people who don't read comics didn't always start from the very first principles. Sometimes it's fun (sort of depends on who's asking), but it gets tiring to explain that no, I don't actually want to make comics, and that yes, people do write criticism about them, and no, I don't particularly like superheroes, and yes I have read Persepolis but howabout we discuss that another time. And I can sometimes be obnoxious in that regard--someone once called me out for rolling my eyes after I was asked whether there was a standard number of panels per page. But although the individual competitiveness may be peculiar to games (nobody can challenge me at comics-reading, although that might be kind of cool), I figure you have some of the problems that a professional critic associated with any industry might have. I would imagine that professional movie critics often dread conversations with people who profess to really love movies. That seems like it's a matter of taste and economics as much as anything--the stuff that people know best because it's more widely available and better promoted is not always the best stuff. There was nothing like the release of the Watchmen movie to make me thoroughly, profoundly uninterested in ever talking about Watchmen ever again.

But writing about games could lead one to become a games journalist...

Part of me agrees but part of me disagrees. I think that talent and experience are required but looking at some of the reviews today by these "professional" reviewers are just laughably bad. I mean look @ IGN's closing comment on Forza 3's review. Look at some of the articles Destructoid publishes. Spoilers in video reviews (GT).

In fact I'd go as far to say that games journalism isn't really journalism but its not like regular journalism is what it once was.

You continue to write some of the most informed and accessible pieces of games journalism I read every month. You always find a way to open up topics for discussion, while simulaneously putting a pin in it. Keep up the great work!

Thank you so much for the kind comment, david!

Awww Game Theory : messing with our minds since Advanced D&D...

look? I made a rhyme!

It will make Resident Evil 5 playable. That's all I care about. :)

hah, amen! that's a good point!

I just ordered that shirt when they went on sale yesterday. Bought the Blood one for my boyfriend and he gets tons of compliments too. That's what I love about Meat Bun shirts: They are subtle but obvious to other gamers. I can't wait for the next line.