Saturday, December 17, 2011

TL;DR: Skyrim is an evil omen.

Here Roderick models a tweed jacket +2 vs. thesis advisers and shoots rays of withering condescension out of his eyes.

Imagine I’m a doctor for PC games.  Not a doctor of PC games, mind you; as yet there’s insufficient rigor in the field to support post-graduate study.  Some day, friends, we'll sit by the fireplace, sip port, smoke pipes, and have intellectual conversations about the merits of WASD.  But anyway, in this metaphor I’m a doctor for PC games.  They come to me and I diagnose their ills.  In this capacity I've recently had an office visit from Skyrim.  It presented with atrophied textures, a 60-degree field of view, and a comically bad interface.  I didn’t need to see anymore.  “Ah ha!” I cried.  “Diagnosis:  consolitis!”  It was the shortest episode of House ever.