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I'll cop to all of them, concurrent or consecutive. But the one that I consider to define me, more than the others, is envy.

Supergod by Warren Ellis. Five short issues about how a superhuman arms race pretty much ended life on earth. Turns out the superhumans aren't just stronger, faster, and better than us. They are other, as fundamentally unknowable as any of Lovecraft's tentacled monstrosities, and just as...

Just off the top of my head: Desire, from the Sandman. In his/her own way, much more fucked up than even Delirium. President Gary Callahan, aka the Smiler from Transmetropolitan. "Yes, General, I am masturbating into the American flag. It relaxes me. Would you rather I use you?" Doktor...

My favorite indie bands all seem to come from the UK. A selection:

There's a tabletop RPG based on the Dresden Files book series. They're about the purest example of urban fantasy I can think of: the main character is the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and has to deal regularly with ghosts, demons, vampires, faeries, practitioners of the black arts, etc.

No, humans came to Skyrim on a boat from some shit continent even farther north. Everyone is quite open about this. Hell, The Companions trace their heritage back to the leader of those first settlers, Ysgramor. Way back when, Skryim was elf land--as was most of Tamriel. Humans just pinched it.

Creepiest one I can think of off the top of my head: "I'll take your heart with such little commotion By crippling disease, or with deadly love potion I'll bind you and gag you and all's well that ends I suppose" There are a few others in my library, but most of them are...

Well, I'm something of a traditionalist, so I'm going to have to say Lucifer. The Light-Bearer, the Morningstar, First of the Fallen, all that jazz. Any dark god can fuck people up with blood sacrifice, armies of devoted followers, and powerful magics. It takes class to screw over...

A maker from Transmetropolitan. Functions like a Star Trek replicator, but can be fueled with trash if necessary. Only problem is keeping the governing AI off drugs.

Booze. Always have two bottles of whiskey on hand: a full one to drink from, and an empty one to hit people who try to take the first bottle away with.

As much as people love to kvetch about it, I enjoyed DA2 far more than ME2, for one reason: the party. Interactions between the PC and party members, or just between party members, were where that game shone. Top-notch writing and voice acting have always been Bioware's forte, and DA2 put it to...

As a big fan of single-player RPGs and a non-player of MMOs, I approve of this.

During the Republic, Roman consuls who lead their troops to sufficiently glorious victories were granted a Triumph, a grand parade from outside Rome to the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus at the center. The victorious general rode in a chariot accompanied by a slave who's role it was to (1)...

I did this all the time after the release of the 360 brought the price of all original xbox games way down. I guess the ones that really stand out for me are: Psychonauts ($12) Armed and Dangerous ($5) Phantom Dust ($3) Rogue Trooper ($5) Damn good purchases all.

I can't find a video of the relevant moment, but: Also, this: The fact that it was the end of a comedy series just salts the wound.