New Comic: Man-Made Horrors, Part Three

There's nothing I love more than a wiggling rune, God damn. As soon as I know there's gonna be a rune I stand up a little straighter, maybe groom my eyebrows real quick. I'm always trying to work one into the strip and this time I managed to accomplish it in the most meta way possible . It's powerful stuff.

New Comic: Man-Made Horrors, Part Two

I ate some food court Chinese and now, by every observable metric, the food court Chinese is eating me . I was able to play a couple rounds of Blood on the Clocktower last night before I began to get a wobbly feeling I described as "nautical" and I have spent the last ten hours or so in a state similar to a furniture warehouse whose boss is out of town, i.e., "Everything Must Go."

New Comic: Man-Made Horrors, Part One

My brand has long been "Atheist Jerk-off," but wtf I love Catholicism now . In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the

New Comic: Limited-Time Offer

After Wednesday's Wattersonian horseshit , we're back to what we do best: animal cruelty .

New Comic: World of Warcraft Never

There was a period of time where they were just putting Star Wars on shit. Games Workshop used to do that too, with their license. There was some filth . But they've both figured out that - and I'll agree it's a little crazy - if you give the licenses to cool people who make good games it's a better play. In the same way that ex-Firaxis people proved that Star Wars XCOM could be much more than the

New Comic: The Race Galactic

He's still being dragged down into an incredibly deep hole with the new Fire Emblem, enough to wonder how some of the math could possibly math in this way . He sounds like me when I got heavily - heavily - into Dynasty Tactics, which I was horrified to learn is twenty-four years old. Fire Emblem is about type-matching and abilities, which is already drugs; Dynasty Tactics is largely about creating

New Comic: Numbers Game

Thanks for the Birthday wishes guys I appreciate it! Gabe’s Birthday being a worldwide phenomenon is one of my favorite running gags in the strip.

Strips about " The Christmas In September " go back, yea, unto the site's very founding. This was during a time where "sites" were a thing, luckily we came to our right minds and converted the frontier into a series of corporate intranets. Dodged a bullet, there. But! There are several more strips in that vein, and there are two strips in particular that have the visual cues to help you understand

New Comic: Goerbemisdag

One of the weirder things about algorithmic media is that I will receive apology videos from people I've never even heard of simply because it's media that has been engaged with beyond a certain threshold. It's a genre; they seem real sad. I thought Bungie's new video was going to be another entry in this Al-Qaeda Hostage genre, but at least I know what this one is about. Bungie's corporate leader

New Comic: The Euphemism Treadmill

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave has Mr. Gribbz by the shortest and curliest hairs he's got. You know it's fucked up when he feels compelled to make a whole post about something, as he abhors the written word. But when a game gets him to stop skipping cutscenes, a phenomenon whose rarity would allow me to count it on one hand, that's when you know you're dealing with some all-time shit. I don't think

Sometimes I bounce right off of a Fire Emblem game, and sometimes they get their hooks in me. On paper I should not be into Fortune’s Weave with all its social dynamics and heavy story bits but I somehow managed to play long enough to discover a gameplay loop that has me completely obsessed.