After multiple aborted attempts, both on my part and his deep knowing that The Witcher is awesome, Gabe is finally digging into The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. But, like… on the Switch.

There were a lot of questions during the Aussie Q&As from a person whose first name started with M and their last name started with K. They involved… well, take a look at the strip.

I got home from Australia yesterday in something like a Cordyceps infected state, maddened but somehow also lethargic, too dry in some places while unforgivably rank and greasy elsewhere. When I get down to the very bottom of my reserves, I'm lucky to have a level of consciousness that is up to most of the things society asks of us with virtually no resource requirements. It just handles it. My actual self, the one that writes these, just has to float in a sac and gain strength.

I've been trying to take more time to draw for fun recently and here is the result. I'm 100% hooked on Destiny again and it feels great to be back on the moon kicking ass. If you've been away for a while I recommend jumping back in and giving Shadowkeep a try.

This was the fortieth PAX, which means it was my fortieth PAX. A couple things about that.

You aren't going to believe this, every neuron in your brain will shriek at the revelation. But we live on a sphere(!!!). I thought I was the only one having a hard time with some of this stuff, so I asked Kiko to perform some feat of chrono-cognition for me. He's my rock, but he couldn't map time appropriately either. He just sat down slowly, with his hand on his knees, shaking his head as though he were remembering "the war."

Gabe mentioned it during a Q&A at PAX West, I think it was during the Make A Strip panel, but when he's stuck somewhere he has a very particular way of narrating the experience in his mind. It's an intoxicating format and I'd like to focus on it exclusively from now on, but in the time it took me to type that sentence out I no longer think so. I'm glad we did it this time, though.

Someday I will return to the land down under but until then, know that I am there with you in spirit. Some say that wherever two or more are gathered to play games...I am with them. That's not true obviously. For those of you who can go to PAX Australia, here's all the great stuff we made that you can buy!

I think it was when I heard Watch The Stove that I started to really get it. The cadre I'm ostensibly in, Generation X, was notoriously resistant to traditional advertising - but God damn. Once we got on, we've brought a kind of sinister genius to the field. It's pretty anime, when you think about it. We were asymptomatic carriers.

Of course, Shadowkeep comes out right when I'm about to travel for an entire day, but what I've played the last few nights is showing me things I wanted to know from the jump. Gabe stayed home to go hard on it, he's at something like 890 Light, right up against the soft cap - it's delivering meaningful content to him regularly. But I put "meaningful content" as a link, so maybe something else is happening there also. But if you've stuck around with Destiny for awhile, you're gonna see some shit, and it's not gonna take long to see it. Plus Eris Morn is back, the Dark Daria of the setting has returned to haunt the lunchroom of the Moon.

I head out Monday for PAX Aus, and when you leave Monday for PAX Aus you actually arrive on Wednesday. I'm sure that I say that every year, I'm not even going to check. I'll never get used to it. I can look directly at the time it is in another part of the world and disbelieve it. I'm sure I've said that too. Last year I did the posts like twelve hours in advance because I didn't trust anything. Surprisingly, having reality perpetually called into question does not hamper my enjoyment of said trip.

I heard an interview with Untitled Goose Game creators House House on NPR. Blink 182 co-signed the Goose at TwitchCon. Does… does that mean it's over? Has it reached the end of its life cycle and released it spores or something? Is it even okay to talk about anymore. The Goose, as geese are wont to do, has ranged far afield of the Monastery and has inserted its ample beak firmly into the greater culture. But here, while we can still see its wings outstretch'd on the horizon, let us praise this malevolent, chaotic force.

PAX Aus is fast approaching, and with it - as though upon the wings of angels - comes this show's deliciously arranged Pin Post. Behold!

You have the ability to make a particular Switch the main Switch in a family, Switch Prime if you will, and Gabe made his new Lite the locus of that power. The thinking is probably that the machine with the dock attached to the TV is most likely to have Wireless Fi? Maybe? Even though that never kept it particularly tethered before? Or he really just likes the new form factor, the feel, which is hard to argue with. It's nice. Can't stream it, but that's only a concern for a vanishingly small cadre.

Now available for purchase. It is VERY CUTE.