Adding to the stuff I said yesterday about anime openings, Pixy Misa has this, and then suggests that this song is catchy. I played it through and I’m not inclined to argue. I think it’s catchy like ebola. I won’t say I liked it, but much like Gollum and the One Ring, I may never be rid of my need of it.
The Truth About Piracy
What are publishers doing to fight piracy and why is it all wrong?
Self-Balancing Gameplay
There's a wonderful way to balance difficulty in RPGs, and designers try to prevent it. For some reason.
DM of the Rings
Both a celebration and an evisceration of tabletop roleplaying games, by twisting the Lord of the Rings films into a D&D game.
Batman: Arkham Origins
A breakdown of how this game faltered when the franchise was given to a different studio.
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?
Sooo… I listened to that opening thinking “how catchey could it be”. Now my brain won’t quit bleeding.
Just wait for the twitching and the waking nightmares.
Ah, good. I haven’t had any luck doing video capture from my laser discs, so I couldn’t inflict the thing on you properly. Someone out there must have succeeded. :)
I love the show itself, though. 196 episodes, so there’s a lot of filler, but there’s a lot of story too. (Particularly in the first season, which had two 15-minute stories per episode.)