Today’s Penny Arcade discusses the difficulty of porting a latest generation sandbox game onto the Nintendo DS, but ends up making what I consider a Dueling Analogs joke in the process:

That said, fans of Animal crossing will probably have felt, at one point or another, that this was the fate that awaited them if they went back to their neglected towns.

About Penny Arcade:

Penny Arcade is the long running, highly popular, and very polarizing video game web comic of Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, which occasionally diverges from gaming discussions to talk about the news, giraffes, fruit rape, and so on. It runs Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and the earliest strip in the archive is from November of 1998. There is a video game based on the comic in the works, and there is a yearly Penny Arcade Expo. The two also founded the Child’s Play charity, which has donated more than a million dollars to children’s hospitals worldwide, hoping to combat the media image of video gamers as violent sociopaths.

Today’s Achewood gives political advice:

About Achewood:

Achewood is a web comic about a series of cats, stuffed animals, at least one human, and arguably, the English language. I love it dearly, and my only complaint is that I actually like Asahi Super Dry, which is the butt of an occasional beer joke. See also the blogs and various print projects that attend the main comic. Chris Onstad’s baby.

Today’s Bathos discusses the Erlenmeyer flask, including its most important property of all:

About Bathos:

Bathos is a weekly comic that often discusses some historical tidbit. Subjects include biography, cryptography, and etymology. It is created by P. Calavara, and runs weekly on Tuesdays. The archive dates back to June 6th, 2006. Notable characters include Polly and Perry Calavara, Super Famicom (a parrot), Judge Rat (a raccoon), and countless robots named Bathos.

It’s been a long time since I ran actual content here at badwickedworld.com, and it’s true that the last time I did, it was using a handwritten CMS, and not an out of the box tool like wordpress. That’s fine, because that’s ok. I thought I would give it one more go, since I’ve grown attached to the domain. So this week I will start posting here. In keeping with my vox blog, I will be mostly writing reviews, but instead of a review of a finished, unchanging product, I will be using this to write quick reviews when I see something I like in an unfinished, ongoing project–a blog or a webcomic. So it is a weblog in the strictest sense of the word: things I found on the web. I work online all day every day, and people are constantly pointing me at neat things. So I hope against hope that I will be able to update regularly. But we shall see. On with the week!