As today's strip illustrates, we do not have a hobby that can be discussed in polite company. Walking near the metal detector for my flight to Kansas City, I wisely truncated a tale I had begun regarding "hunting men." It really is nothing to us, it's as though we're talking about "the game" or what have you, but the terminology and graphic depictions we gleefully relate are actually fairly hideous to the other people in line for groceries.

Ross Mills just let me know about the new Matrix Trailer, if you haven't already seen it. Hot damn.

He wanted me to wish him a happy birthday, and now I am doing that. I apologize to anyone who came here looking for actual content!

You probably know her best as "That one girl who took those pictures with the REZ vibrating thing on her Bajingo." Her name is actually Jane and she also happens to be the editor of Game Girl Advance.com. Normally I don't design mascots for other sites but I figured that I owed her on behalf of fan boys everywhere for her REZ article. So when she asked me I said I'd do it, and I'm really happy with the way it came out. She is working on a new site design now to incorporate the new mascot but I figured I'd just post a picture of the drawing here in the meantime.

People keep asking why I have not been posting more. It's because I am working on a top secret Penny Arcade project. I wish I could tell you what it is, but it has been classified omega code red alpha...which is like super secret. Back to work now.

Yunsung = SC2 Hwang. He's not as much of a Xianghua ripoff in this one, but they're more or less the same chars, far as I know.

I keep up with Savage for the many reasons I always tell you I do. Hybrid gameplay, etc. The site just launched for it has some interesting specifics about structures the commander can build, as well as other things like autonomous "creeps" (to utilize War3 jargon) that roam the maps.

Under the guise of letting me know about a bad link in the post, Travis Addington of the City Of Doors Initiative let me know about his group's attempts to bring Planescape and Neverwinter Nights into greater harmony. I own every Planescape book TSR ever produced, so obviously I support their endeavors one hundred percent. More than that, if possible.

I'm prostrate before Scott Vaio this morning, as Comcast can't seem to get my packets from here to there. Or, I was prostrate before him, until he crashed, and now I'm using my main computer Czar to type in the post I wrote from the laptop's frozen screen. Then, I'll be burning this onto a CD (because apparently this floppy doesn't work) and uploading it from Scott after I restart him. Never let it be said that I am not dedicated to your edification and entertainment, dear reader!

My Favorites folder is just a non-stop carnival of Elf Dicks.

Just when I thought I would go the whole day without seeing any poorly rendered pencil drawings of elves with their dicks out... Thank you Tycho, you pull that one out of your favorites?

Storm Shadow lays it out with naughty photos of his new set-up, and dishes out cables to a young man in desperate need.

Check out this Aliens casemod, if you haven't seen it already. Thanks to Andrew Brookes for sending it in.

If I mentioned it, but Aliens is one of my favorite movies, if not the favorite. That's why the presence of Colonial Marines brought me such comfort, because they are very tough hombres who pack state of the art firepower. There's nothing they can't handle.

We met a young man - I hope he does not bridle at that description - at both of the local cons we've been to, and he runs a comic called "If Then Else." We said that we would happily place a link to it on our page, and it is now my pleasure to introduce the two of you.