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What’s in the Candy Box?
This might be the most unassuming, strangely delightful role-playing game ever.
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Planting Starseeds
Starseed Pilgrim turns a repetitive, frustrating exercise into a game of discovery and wonder.
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Weapon of Mass Crustacean
“Perhaps some psychologist can tell me why it feels so good to inhabit a colossal cosmic crustacean and wreak havoc across the solar system. But I don’t particularly care why.”
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Meme of Thrones
Game of Thrones owes much of its success to George R.R. Martin’s image macro-ready language.
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How I Fleeced a Little Kid Out of the Hottest New Magic: The Gathering Card
Step 1: Find awesome wizard in booster back. Step 2: Show awesome wizard to nerd child. Step 3: Profit!
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Holy Shit This Conversation from Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow Is Awful
How should a powerful warrior witch respond to being stuck with housekeeping duty? Our hero has some opinions.
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Here's how you know you're playing a fun game: when you find yourself in some random empty area, messing around with game's basic moves over and over again for no reason. Like, remember that big field in front of the castle at the beginning of Super Mario 64? If you played that game, I guarantee ...
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Ten Courses at The French Laundry
Nick Martens has the most delicious and most expensive meal of his life.
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Best iPhone and iPad Games of 2011
Nick Martens picks his favorite iPhone and iPad games of the year.
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The Year of Ice and Fire
Nick Martens gets lost in the worlds of Game of Thrones and Skyrim.
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Conversations with Fruit
People take seasonal produce very seriously. Nick Martens decides to get his information straight from the source.
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Quiz: Which Metaphor Best Captures Your Personal Brand of Post-Modern Ennui?
Nick Martens presents a handy quiz to help your liberal arts-induced existential loneliness.