PixlBit

Earlier this year I actually looked through a list of all the Hugo winners and the thought about reading them all did cross my mind—it would make a really cool reading list!—but thankfully I dumped the idea pretty quickly. I have enough cool books to read without trying to track down a bunch more.

I've seen that Pillars of the Earth book. It's HUGE!

This year is probably the first of the last five that I've really gotten back into reading novels. Sometimes you just need to do other things.

I did some reading about him online when I first came across one of his books and it seems like A Fire Upon the Deep is probably his most well known and highly regarded. But yeah, I can't imagine he's written anything that isn't chock full of interesting ideas.

I have a confession. When I listen to NWP while commuting, I...I wear pants! 

I know I haven't gotten to participate or comment all that much but I've been sticking with the show. I try to use what little free time I have to actually play games, so the internet doesn't see me all that much lol. And commuting is my podcast time, so I never can comment right when I'm thinking about it. But I wanted to make sure to comment after listening to this episode because I was rather shocked, first by Patrick's gross oversimplification of Dark Souls—apparently any game with dodging and hitting is just like Dark Souls—and then by how he dismissed Julian's opinion as invalid. In fact, he said anyone who disagreed with him simply hadn't thought through it enough. I sure hope such hubris was fueled by alcohol because surely he's not such an ass when sober...right? Then again, how often is he sober for the podcast  And Julian, don't be so quick to assume that Patrick is everyone's favorite because it's simply not true.

Blood Dragon made me excited to try Far Cry 4 (which I already own) but I am a little worried that it will overstay its welcome. Blood Dragon was just right.

They did raise the Light cap up to 400, so there's that. Really, though, Destiny is best if you have at least person you can count on playing with regularly. It definitely loses something as a single player (or just playing with randoms) game.

You're right. I was not clear on those PS1 games. I got them digitally during a PSN sale. The physical versions are much too expensive!

I have Okami for the PS2. My biggest deterrent is just its length. The game is supposedly more than 40 hours long O_O

I haven't play Lost Odyssey (though I own a copy OF COURSE lol),  so that shouldn't be a problem. I remember reading the review on 1UP. That's how long it's been since that game came out. 1UP was still a functioning website o_O

Seems pretty ambitious and I wish you the best of luck. I've kept my game buying pretty low for a couple of months now, though we've started to pick up a few things as the holidays approach. My wife is playing Dishonored 2 as I write this, for instance, and we're both getting the new Pokemon next week.