Haha, you thought the NRF was dead, didn’t you? Well, you’re barely wrong, confusiomigos! This week, I played through an all-time classic, the original, titular SCUMM engine game, Maniac Mansion, in its horrible, horrible incarnation on the NES. Let’s look inside, shall we? Maniac Mansion is the very first of a proud pedigree, one nearly [...]

Goodbye. Throughout the ages, great philosophical minds have purported, through myriad different kinds of reasoning and to a cornucopia of ends, that life, in all its intricacy, is really just composed of simple opposites. Good and evil, Yin and Yang, happiness and suffering, chocolate and vanilla, matter and antimatter, people who understand binary and people [...]

At the risk of being very generic, I have to say that television is in a sorry state nowadays. I know, I know, every crappy wannabe stand-up comedian and humor essayist out there talks about this, elaborating on the reality TV movement or the gameshow phenomenon or how no movies come out anymore that weren’t [...]

Wow, I missed TWO updates this week. In a row. Cue the tumbleweed rolling through this scene, because I probably lost half our audience with this incredible lack of professionalism…ality. Now, I guess this is the part where I make up some excuse about being hard at work at school or work or something, and [...]

Today is Thursday, in case you haven’t checked. Not quite the end of the week, not the beginning, not even hump day (a name which only old people use and thusly you want no part of it no matter WHAT you’ve construed it as meaning). Not really anything, actually, besides being the only day of [...]