...I love a good apendix.

And slime rancher's is as effortlessly delightful as this game. Chamberlain may have given up on you after 5 minutes but I won't. Show me your pink, amorphic, giggly, secrets slime rancher. I want em' all!

Slime Rancher has one really important question to ask. Do you need a hug?

You never appreciate how much games these days are drenched in blood, guts, and monochrome until something like slime rancher comes along. I don't know what I'm doing. My pink slimes have all hopped out of their cages, my rock slimes are starving, and I can't get carrots to grow fast enough. But slime rancher don't care. Slime Rancher just wants you to have a good time. And thus... I am.

Here's a car. You want it?

It's sad that the single best ad I've seen all year is just a skit for the filmmaker's girlfriend. As a guy with an amazing 1999 Toyota Camry I get this love. It's a car that Works. With a capital W. Sell me that, Madison ave.

The Sound of 2017

MadBaek

I'm in the process of throwing together my game of the year post and I need some thinkin' music. These selections in NO way mirror my choices... at all. What? Don't look at me like that. I don't need your sass, private!

Soft Girl's cover of Night in the Wood's Weird Autumn by Scott Benson:



Hollow Knight's Soul Sanctum by Christopher Larkin:



Cuphead's Floral Fury by Kristofer Maddigan:



Horizon's Maker's End by Alexis Smith and Joe Henson:



Prey's Semi Sacred Geometry by Raphaël Colantonio: