This was the conversation I had with Gabriel on his birthday, and we have rendered it for your consumption. He's basically impossible to buy things for, it's a tremendous pain in the ass, but I have learned and thus absorbed an undulating truthwave: that you may purchase a gift for a father's child and they will react as though you have purchased them two gifts. I secured for his brood the "Guardian," an Anki Drive car, which I am given to understand is a car.

Today's First Fifteen was pretty crazy. I'm not sure I ever would have tried a Godzilla game on my own. We don't pick what we play though. Sometimes that's cool. Other times it's...less cool.

I’ve had the opportunity to play both Disney Infinity 3.0 and Skylanders Superchargers now. Ideally I think one of these ridiculously expensive games would suck and you could ignore it in favor of the other, but they are both pretty great.

It seems like it's getting more difficult to retain one's identity. Is anyone else getting that impression? It's bad enough that you need to fucks with all your autopay shit and get a new card, but settling on a new identity can be fraught for real. You might want to have one on deck just so you're ready when the inevitable happens. Next time I get "the call," I'm gonna go with Burnaby Swaggler and I'm gonna be super into teak. Yeah, I mean the wood.

A note, which is secondary to the topic of the strip: something is happening with this motherfucker's art. The panels look like they're about an inch deep apiece, and I feel like if I tilted my head to left or right a little bit, I could see behind the characters. I don't know anything about art in general, but I know about his art, and the way he perceives space has been altered.

I got the Anki starter set last Christmas “for my kids” and we’ve had a lot of fun with it over the last year. I saw that the expansion was set to come out and made a tweet to my wife suggesting she get it for me for my Birthday. Then a big box of it showed up at my house a couple days before release. It seems the Anki folks saw my tweet and found out where I lived.

The office I share with Gabrickle always manifests certain properties, certain ratios, which are designed to retain a configuration we have deemed holy. At every turn we have endeavored to replicate Apartment 26 on the off-chance that it was the apartment that was responsible for all of this and not something we did. There is a couch and our desks and a television arranged in accordance with the mysterious weft of the universe.

For a long time, you could make the case that - no matter the role - that Nolan North was basically playing Nolan North. Because this is the Internet, I have to append this suffix; I'm not even saying this is a bad thing. I like Nolan North. I mean, I don't know him, but I like his whole thing. Nolan North as the Ghost in Destiny though is a sometimes energetic, sometimes fragile, always a little nervous thing. It's great. He also has the best line in the new Destiny, at least from my perspective.

Are you playing the Taken King? Do you like the new sub-classes? Then check out these comics we did for each of the new roles!

Just like it says on the tin: go get them!

Eris Morn is basically spooky high school lunchroom girl, but in space. She has a perfectly good reason for being sad, but still. She's kind of a Debbie Downer. I wouldn't change her at all; I love her. She has to be there. In the new Pantheon they've developed, she's the Keeper of the Weird. Now that they've allowed Story to sit at the big kids table along with the Shoot Shoots and Mr. Melee, questgivers have been unfolded in three dimensions. Inflated, if you will. There was a Destiny before, but it was not this Destiny.

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We don't actually get to pick the games that we play for the First 15. This means that sometimes we end up playing some real stinkers. It also means that occasionally we discover an awesome game that neither of us ever would have picked up on our own. That's the case with today's episode.

I can remember trying to get Gabriel to try Forza 5, hoping it might give him something to use on the system at all, but the launch was rough in general and eventually the whole box ended up in the closet. It would emerge for a season, groundhog-like, and then return chastened to its hole.

I have tried a few Forza games over the years but never really got into any of them. I don’t think I've done more than a handful of races across all the previous Forza games. By contrast, I got a review copy of Forza 6 last Tuesday from MS and I have already put 22 hours into it. So what happened?

Apple was always a cult, but now it's a cult based on a cult. The revelation has been attenuated, interpreted, made progressively less divine until you see a presentation like the one they gave the other day.