I tend to think of games in terms of lineage. It's a two tier system where the games themselves have something like progeny, but the designers also exist in a kind of parallel continuum. There's people where I'm simply going to buy any game they make, and there's franchises I'll endure no end of abuse from. So, let's take a look at where Dropmix exists.

Outside of Twitter or email, I don't let strangers talk to me on the Internet. I just don't do it. Generally speaking their "insights" about my identity fall into a few very staid categories and I feel confident I've experienced the flavor ridges of that particular narrative arc. I'm not resting on my anodized laurels though: I'm getting into the conversation in a big way, and there's been some interest in the novel mode of my dialectic.

I'm still thinking about my SCA shit up at last weekend's Banner War, partly because I got sick there so I've had a lot of time to lie completely motionless except for wracking coughs and the occasional turn, as meat is turned on a grill, to let the mucus collect in the other lobe of my sinuses.

Gabriel mostly sat in confusion after the comment at Curriculum Night; he doesn't really start or maintain beef in realspace.

There was talk of trying the Leviathan raid, and it sounded pretty good to me, but then I realized that numbers were real and my numbers were very, very low. I'm much closer now; Greazy-E and I are gonna try to crack the 260 barrier on this afternoon's stream around 2 PDT. Stop by?

Stripped of its makeshift ironic armor, the events of the strip are quite true. A father hand-made a custom universe for his son and as a result Hearts got warmed.

I've wrapped up the main campaign for Destiny 2, and a bunch of stuff happens in it but the main, important thing is I can create a special, magical hole - and everyone's invited. Hole benefits include:

My son Gabe invited a few of his friends to PAX this year and the group of them set off to experience the show on their own for the first time. They came back raving about a game they saw called Lightseekers that I had heard of and thought was a “Toys to Life” sort of thing I'd heard about on Kickstarter. I have to admit that after Disney Infinity kicked the bucket I sort of figured the genre was dead. I mean, if Disney can’t make it work who can? I let them take me over to the booth the next day though and I am glad I did because “Toys to Life” doesn’t really do Lightseekers justice.

E3 was always a very safe show, money-wise - it's a fully operational media battle station, as opposed to a mall. You're supposed to go and salivate in anticipation of a meal six months hence. That's not necessarily true at a PAX show, partly because of its origin as a community show like a Comic or Anime convention. The Expo Floor is really an outgrowth of the Dealer's Rooms we used to be situated in, where one could quite easily purchase a comic where Malfoy spanks Harry or, indeed, a paddle and the accoutrements required to recreate such scenes in the home.

I added the part about Raid Gear, but I understand a conversation very much like this happened last night. By the time I joined Gabe and Kara online, what you might call our Classic Fireteam Configuration, Gabriel The Younger had already been exiled to the Darklands, where youths play not.

It's always a little surprising to be writing a newspost in the middle of a PAX, but, you know. It's four days now. PAX East is gonna be four days now, too - did you hear? It'll be starting on the Thursday of that week.

The new Madden's "Longshot" campaign is really interesting to me. Not, like, "buy Madden" interesting. Let's not get carried away. But the weak and callow Gabriel has - again - failed in precisely this way.

Grob emerged from Call Of Duty: WWII with a lot of good things to say. I don't know about it, because instead of playing a AAA game that costs tens of millions of dollars I'm playing a Nintendo Switch port of a two year old PC matching puzzle game.

Mike Selinker over at Lone Shark games has posted a big update to the Thornwatch Kickstarter. I still have two pieces of art to wrap up but both of them are for the Dark of the Wood expansion. The requirements for this game have pushed me to draw outside my comfort zone at times. Taking the Judges and turning them into avatars with unique abilities was a ton of fun and I love thinking of them as the Eyrewood's pantheon. Drawing them has been a challenge for me though as it's just not the sort of thing I tend to draw. Thornwatch has been full of challenges like that though and I am really proud of how it's all come together. I've never created this much art for a single project before and I can't wait for you all to see it. If you'd like a sneak peek at some of the artwork I've been doing for this game you should hit up my Instagram.

I'm back from Spokane - whole of body, but perhaps not whole of mind.

Polygon did in fact have to change their article about Apocrypha, and I am pleased, plus technically (as I am being told on Twitter) it should be "lupursine." I was trying to come up with something that sucked really bad, though, and being profoundly incorrect is certainly one way to suck.