"The shame of the Gamera family"

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I just realized — broadband means I can start reading Megatokyo again! I liked yesterday’s strip a lot, though I think Alan Moore did the same joke better in Top Ten.

Speaking of obsessions, Greg Costikyan (in his new weblog) writes about Snood (“the 9th most played game in the world”), asking why simple puzzle games like this and Tetris get no respect in the game design community, though they’re very popular and very addictive. I know I used to play Snood pretty obsessively, giving it up only when I switched over to OSX fulltime (’cause I hate having to launch the Classic environment). And Tetris, hoy, I used to play that over and over till my hand ached. I once deleted it from my hard drive to keep myself from playing it; an hour later I decided that the undelete software I’d installed a few days previous needed testing....