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Child's Play Summer Fun!

We’ve held summer events to help support Child’s Play in the past but this year’s is unique. We’ve still got Ping Pong for you die hards, but we’ve also structured it to be more of a family friendly event. How so? Well for starters there is a bouncey house! We are calling this our Summer Faire and Table Tennis Tournament and it’s coming up on July 22nd. We really do want this to be something you can bring the family to and play some games while you learn a bit about what Child’s Play does and how your donations help. It should be an awesome (kid friendly) day! You can find all the details and buy your tickets right here on the CP site.

The Bone Zone

I guess we'll see if something can top it, but I'm pretty sure The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is Gabe's favorite game of the year and might even be his favorite game ever. "Open World" by way of Nintendo is a rare sort of creature. The first DLC just dropped, and watching how he's traversed the place over the last hundred hours or so was fascinating for him. There's places he's never managed to be funneled into, places that have somehow remained persistently dark, even though they're completely accessible, just based on the vagaries of his travel.

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Calorie Dense

Black Panther was one of the best parts of Civil War, I just… I bought into him completely. He stands outside the rest of the established power structures in a way that exposes them as weird-ass pageants. 100% gonna watch this movie.

Medicinal

Playing games with Gabriel, as I have for many years, involves a certain cadence. Around ten o'clock at night the action must pause while he obtains and then noisily processes snacks of various kinds. Historically, it was Oreos.

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The Last Guardian

I am typing this at Disney World. They have invented a kind of magnet that works on money, here, and it works really, really well. They have a kind of watch you wear that doesn't tell time, but does allow you to spend money in an almost frictionless way and I have. I'm glad that I came down right after the C Team but came home before our Warmachine show we do with Privateer Press, because it provided a kind of upper bound on my losses. Also, they have a root beer float you can get by the pool only it's not root beer it's Guinness. A dangerous juxtaposition.

Fritterer

After Gabriel tried Arms during the Global Test Punch and bounced completely off the experience, I did my best to advocate for the game. There's something here, I said. Discrete, particular hands are an illusion, I said - the hand is a mutable concept. There's a way to mash buttons playing the game but that's not where it tops out. It looks goofy as hell, but don't be fooled.

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Atomic Side-Eye

Battleborn just went free-to-play-but-not-really-it's-just-a-perpetual-free-trial-and-alternative-business-model-which-I-can't-meaningfully-distinguish-from-f2p, or something, and maybe that'll work for them. Games go free with varying levels of success; Star Wars: the Old Republic is often hailed as an optimal example, though it's starting to become clear to me that many of my friends are super into ESO. Retail launch for these service-product chimaerae looks more and more like the the disposable first stage of a rocket.