We haven’t seen quality online sketch comedy like this in a good long time.

On top of the games already mentioned, here are my recommendations.

First, I must mention:

• Crosscountry Canada (1991)

Quebec City

• Just Shapes & Beats — rhythm bullet hell with lots of EDM

Montreal

• Ultimate Chicken Horse — build your own platformer level and race your friends
• N++ — platformer focused on momentum and agility
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided — cyberpunk stealth and action

Ottawa

• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes — defuse a bomb while your friends read the defusal manual

Toronto

• Super Time Force Ultra — side-scrolling shooter with time manipulation
• A Short Hike — a short, open-world hike

Vancouver

• Beastieball (in early access) — creature collecting with turn-based volleyball
• Crypt of the NecroDancer — rhythm roguelike
• Rift of the NecroDancer — “guitar-like” rhythm
• Inscryption — spooky card game… at first

Snow Crow

I don’t even remember what led me to this, but watching the Amazing Race has been my latest guilty pleasure. The Amazing Race Canada, too. TAR still has all the super-dramatic reality TV editing and music but is way less focused on interpersonal conflict. It’s the places and tasks that make it interesting.

Compared to the US show, the Canadian show is way lower budget and milder in vibes, but the Canadian host is way more enthusiastic. He actually does the challenges while explaining them.

Fantastic movie that deserves its Golden Globe

Blessed IKEA guardian

When the unmaking is really anguished

We’re going to Pitcairn Island, chat!

Which one is this?

Denuvo. Shame.

I’d say it’s a step more “serious racing” than Kart. Transformed had more complex drifting and boosting mechanics to emphasize good racing skills. There are still powerups, but they’re relatively weak. The closest blue shell equivalent is the swarm, which summons a swarm of giant wasps to sit in front of the race leader, but it’s always dodgeable with good steering. The medium-level pickups require good aim or awareness of who’s near you. The Kart strategy of only caring about the last lap is still possible in Transformed, but trying to get ahead as far as possible is also a doable strategy.

Really hoping this can be a worthy successor to Transformed

Scroll down to a “Random article” card and select “More random articles” underneath.

You end up at the Randomizer, which lets you flick through a stack of random articles.

Note that the official Wikipedia mobile app has functionality like this as well. There’s a section with an endless stack of cards containing articles.

I surfed my way into the Japanese pet vlog bubble, and I don’t even speak Japanese! I’m subscribed to a whole bunch and watch the videos, so that reinforces the recommendations.

“loanword” is a calque and “calque” is a loanword.

Holy hell

I’m sure someone at Valve also had fond memories of that toilet.

Amazingly, I played this game when it came out and discovered it has Steam Controller binds out of the box!

At this point, the fact that Portal is in the Half-Life universe is just a fluke. The plots of Portal 2 singleplayer, co-op, and PTI are very “distant” from anything happening with Half-Life. The two series are tonally very mismatched. Their strongest connection is that Aperture bumbled their way into possessing Half-Life plot-critical stuff and then losing the boat that contained it.

It’s black cats all the way down!

But what if I want to dust a bookshelf so it looks older and unkempt?