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Hey Fellow Bombers!

My friends have been marathoning boardgames for the last day or so, and they have a day left to meet or break their goal. They're using the marathon to raise money for Child's Play, and have about $200 left to meet their $1,500 goal.

If you guys want so watch some great folks play boardgames (and possibly donate) you can do so here. They have a fun mechanic for donations where your donations vote for the next game, or gamer to play. So if you really want to destroy my buddy Kenny, you can up-vote him with donations for the next hour. Dastardly, I know!

And here's the donation page.

Thanks guys, and happy gaming!

Sorry to hear that you broke your collarbone, man. That's a rough one to break. I guess we can add Worth Reading to stuff that nothing can stop now.

Hope you start feeling better, Patrick!

I've now bought and played I Get This Call Every Day and it's a fascinating little game. As a fellow customer service agent it plays like a "how not to fuck up a call" simulator or a "how patient are you, really?" game. Also if you try hard enough you can get the "good" ending for realsies. So as soon as I read the Kobayashi Maru statement from @The_Laughing_Man I felt like James T Kirk. But still I agree with the underlying statement of this game: I absolutely get this call every day. And about 5 to 6 times a day.

My parents bought me a PS2 back in October of 2000 and it's still working to this day as if it's brand new. Never once did I have a problem with it. I hope that when I've got kids of my own, I can potentially give them all of my childhood consoles, the PS2 included.

I love me some Night Court! I think you captured the '89 era sitcom quite well! Mad props.

Oh man that's so cool! Good stuff Duder. I was thinking of getting Scribblenauts Unlimited on the PC anyway, and this just cements that idea.

@Ares42:

That's entirely fair, and I do agree with this. There is a difference between being objective and saying something is bad because it is bad, and saying that it's bad because you dislike it. I think in Neigher's case it's objective but comes off a little too stingy; however, I still think his experience is valid and that he doesn't necessarily need to agree with the majority. There is a line and it seems too easy to cross at times, but I still think there's room for a more personalized review inside an objective review. My problem with the vitriole over Neigher's review is that he didn't score it badly: he basically said it was mediocre. I think it'd be hard to describe NS2 as mediocre when just the concept and ideas in the game are interesting different. But still, if Neigher didn't have fun with it, then I think this makes sense.

This is my favourite comment by kwintox from that review "My god man.. how can you give it a 6.0 when Multiplayer.it, ausgamers, the escapist and IGN all rate it higher then 8 and when the user score is a 9.3? Aren't you supposed to give objective reviews on games, this felt like you personally didn't like the game thus giving it a undervalued score."

Now, correct me if you think I'm wrong, but isn't personal experience a big part of a review? I personally didn't like New Super Mario Bros. Wii and would have given it a 5 or a 6 our of 10, but that does not make my experience invalid, nor does it make my review (if I had written one) invalid as well. Who cares what other sites are saying about a game? Does it really matter that IGN rated it at 8 when Eric Neigher found the game to be of mediocre quality? I remember Brad having a problem reviewing Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor because he remembered the demo game being good but the final product sucking, and he thought there may have been an issue with Kinect, not the game. Of course it turned out that the game was busted, but what if it wasn't? What if Brad had given it a 1 star despite it not being broken? Or Jeff with Dance Central 3 and his Kinect problems. Or how about Alex's review for NBA 2K13 versus what Vinny and Jeff experienced with the really bad stuff in the quicklook? Does that make either parties' opinions invalid? No, of course not. A review comes down to personal experience and taste. If a game wasn't fun to the one reviewing it, then why would that reviewer score the game high just because someone else did despite their experience with the game totally sucking? It's nothing new to see people on the internet with an intense sense of self-entitlement who think that someone's professional opinion should be pulled because it doesn't agree with theirs, but what I don't get is that people see this as alright behaviour. They can choose to disagree, but the hatred towards the contesting opinion is unwarranted. Though that's a problem with the internet that I don't think will ever go away.

Thankfully I'm glad to be a part of the Giantbomb community in which the majority of the users realize that there are people writing these reviews and providing us with content.

It's like Jeff said on the Bombcast once: sometimes you just want Taco Bell.

I've been finding that the buginess of video games tends to now be solely on an individual basis. When I played Red Dead Redemption I saw all of one bug where a cart clipped through the ground for a bit, but that game is notorious for bugs. Meanwhile my friend was running into coyote-men and such. Anyway, good article! I'm hoping I don't run into the same issues, but I've been hearing a lot about weird clipping problems in the game.