Ullillillia is a name that forum trolls from the early 2000's will remember fondly. In the bizarre haze of comedy sites like Something Awful, humor forums, and a time before memes had been solidified as the primary form of online enter...

I have always advocated for the ownership of physical media, right from the time when "eshops" and other similar digital services became available on console. I hate the idea of owning software that I do not have full permission to use...

It feels sort of weird coming back here...I have a complicated history with Destructoid. Mostly good. But I wasn't always well behaved, that's for sure. I left around two years ago I guess. I was on staff, never consistently contributi...

My best friend lives in Toronto now, far away from me, but we still speak nearly every day. Some of our conversations are about good practice in coding. Others are about the time I played Dungeons and Dragons with a camgirl after jokin...

I will say up front: I can't get images to work seemingly, and I also don't care. Images are for the weak. Or something. Anyways, I bought my Dreamcast back in grade 10, around 2001, 2002. This was the end of the systems short life cyc...

A few weeks ago I went shopping for a new laptop to run my business a little easier. I am on the go quite a bit, and wanted a powerful machine with few limitations, but one that was still slim, portable, and had a decent battery life. ...

Look, Sonic Mania is coming and that is all well and good. But Sonic Forces comes out soon, and it looks pretty bad ass too so far. Apart from being a new 3D Sonic in the vein of Colors and Generations, it also has a tool where you can...

I won't spend a lot of time boring you all with the details, but after a very brief return to the C Blogs, and due to a clerical error Niero is too ashamed to admit to making, I was accidentally made a contributor for Destructoid much to th...

I didn't realized how long I'd been gone until I looked around at all the faces here and barely knew anyone anymore. I popped back in last week to write a Bubsy, and all of a sudden I am sitting in a virtual internet room on the cyber ...

Look, I'm not gonna beat around the bush here. I ain't gonna pussyfoot, walk on eggshells, flamenco on olives here, I'm gonna get straight to the point. I know you're hiring right now, papa Niero. And I want in on the cheese. I wanna brin...

I'm pleased to announce that I discovered a valuable truth in my life I wasn't aware of until previously; that hot peppers cannot physically cause your ass to bleed, although they may aggravate the burning pain caused from anal fissure...

This year I decided to do a charity program called Extra Life. The "activism" portion of the drive is that I will be sitting down on October 19th and play video games for 24 hours. Sounds like a dream, right? But not for me. Anyone who...

Writing again, I mean. The first blog I posted in awhile was front paged, and that was a real confidence boost. See, I had written anything in nearly a year, but a guy I work with encouraged me to get back on the horse. So I did. And i...

Let's get this out of the way now. I have been waiting for details of Star Wars: Force Awakens for a year. Anything, any little plot detail. So as I waited in bed waiting for that shit to happen, waiting to go on the 17th, I was franti...

I ain't mad. Just crazy.I spent three solid days playing Final Fantasy VII upon release. Three days of bloodshot eyes, dehydration. Eventually a bit of depression. You just shouldn't game that much, and I haven't since. It isn't healthy.The...

Hey guys, remember that time I posted a few months ago talking about how bad my life was? That was pretty funny right?Well no it wasn't.Luckily it's over. And it got a lot worse before it got better. I went completely broke at one point, an...

Starless is some seriously nasty shit.I was a big fan of Bible Black back in the day, mainly because I'd played this or that erotic anime visual novel and disliked the fact that all the girls looked like they were twelve. Even when I was ar...

Well okay. That's not entirely honest. I mean, I AM making a game, but it's a bit misleading. This is a video game site after all (and I do adore video games) but I'm actually making a new pen and paper RPG. Seeing a front page article on D...

Feel free to fail this, whoever.But everything sucks.It's really a shame what is going on right now. There are obviously two sides with differing opinions sparring and a bunch of people seem to be packing up and leaving. After figruing out ...

I've been back doing this blogging thing for two months almost. Two months and over thirty blogs, and it's tiring! Life has been all over the place and I tried to keep up the momentum of "one post per day" for some obscure self imposed reas...

One of my best friends growing up lived in a cool little house not a few blocks away from me. We spent a lot of time hanging out and playing games and his family was as nice as they came. His brother had some cool stuff we would fuck around...

Yesterday I did something I haven't done in many years and filled out a character sheet for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Starting a campaign in the most recently released 5th edition I have had the roleplaying bug. After many years of rel...

The Game Boy is really awesome. I mean it! I got one for my birthday a little after launch and was, admittedly, not all that impressed. I mean it was great fun to have handheld games on the go, but even as a kid it was tough to look at that...

I want to share a part of myself with all of you. Originally I was going to amputate bits of my body and send them all to you via the 11 O'clock Aerogyro, but I've found a simpler, less painful way. I want to show you Kung Fu Rascals. Some...

A new game is released and everyone loses their minds. The Flock is an interesting experiment. Like most experimental games, there are big intentions to deliver a unique experience that purport to change the world; a promise that will likel...

Jason Rohrer is a fucking crazy person. He does crazy things presumably from a loonie bin tied up in a straight jacket and then puts them out into the world. He made a game meant to be played two thousand years in the future and buried it i...

I've made a point lately to be positive. In his own words in the past on Twitter, Randy Pitchford himself encouraged positive reinforcement as a way to inspire people to improve rather than negativity and insults. But sometimes, there is a ...

The first time I ever sat and wrote anything was a short story for my Grade 1 class. It was open ended but had to be a retake of the classic Chicken Little story. So I just changed the birds out. That was the extent of my age six creativity...

I had a strangely existential moment this evening when getting home from work. I was sitting with a glass of milk in my hand and watching the most recent Jimquisition where Mr. Sterling payed homage to Satoru Iwata. Rumors of his death have...

Satoru Iwata passed away yesterday. I was sitting among friends pulling up D&D 5 info for the campaign we are starting when the news popped up on Facebook. He was the face of a company, but one I respect on a level I don't offer other c...