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Hey if you linked your Bethesda account with your Twitch account you get nifty drops.  It's also interesting for watching the actual people doing things.  Random nervousness, the awkward pauses before the video cuts in, and Todd Howard himself as the perfectly normal gamer boy who doesn't seem to realize what he's doing up on the stage.

If you don't go to Gen Con , literally The Best 4 Days in Gaming, you should.  You really should.  It's fun.  It's interesting.  (It's expensive.)  It's worth it. It's not perfect, but I don't know of any con that is.  I've never been to PAX, so I can't compare it.  It's smaller than San Diego Comic Con, but then again most universities are smaller than SDCC.  But I can say that Gen Con is overall a wonderful experience, and I highly recommend it.  Unless you're that one guy that no one likes, then you shouldn't go.  But everyone else should. This is just a short introductory piece for this year's rundown of the con, in which I will go over dining options!  Because that's one of the easiest, shortest things I can discuss. Continuing my bloodstream's war with all of Indianapolis, we were very limited in our dining options thanks to the new feature where everything is fried in the same oil and everyone makes some horrid fr...

From the dudes at North Star Games (who are possibly, like, high, dude) comes a new card game, dude.  It's called Dude.  Dude!  You say dude a lot, dude, and you try to say it the same way someone else says it, dude, so that you get more points.  Dude! There's also an expansion, called 'More Dude,' dude, but it's just not the same, dude.  For More Dude, you say dude the way a robot or an alien would say it or something, dude.  It's just not the same.  Which is probably why they called it More Dude, instead of Dude.  Dude. If you have more than six dudes and dudettes, you can also add 'One More Dude.'  For when you need more dudes, dude. Anyway, Dude and all the other dude accouterments are sold exclusively at Target.  Weird, but hey.  What's a dude to do?  So... dude.  Check it out!

It's like people enjoy going to the best and largest gaming convention every year! I'm supposed to be going to the block party but I will probably chicken out.  I have nothing to wear anyway. I will be stopping by various game developers and designers to ask them questions and take pictures.  Also, looking for something that I can send to my Steam buddy in Estonia.

Have you heard of Scythe ?  It's a post-apocalyptic survival resource managing game, where the apocalypse in question was the Great War.  Set in  alternate reality 1920's Eastern Europe, you manage one of up to five factions, gather resources, gather workers, build mechs. What?  What else would you do? Anyway, this pretty cool little Steampunk game launched on Kickstarter, was successful, and now has a video game on Steam .  Full circle!  It's currently in Early Access, but the computer version is being published by Asmodee Digital .  I think we can trust them.  The video game will be demo'ing at Gen Con, and you can also play the board game.  It will be available for PC and Mac (cool!) and you can find out more about it here .

Are you jealous?  You should be!  Thirty Seconds to Mars put on awesome concerts.  They do require patience, as they build to a slow burn but it explodes and stays at high energy with fantastic music. In case you live under a rock, let's start by introducing the band: Thirty Seconds to Mars is currently Jared Leto (frontman, lead singer/guitarist/songwriter, creative director) and his brother Shannon Leto (drums, rhythm, remixes, singer, songwriter, Jared's anchor).  My personal head canon is that Jared, who is secretly a vampire, drains his other bandmembers and makes them retire when they are too drained, but of course they all still like him.  Tomo Miličević joins Matt Wachter and Solon Bixler in retiring for non-specific but still staying friends with the Letos reasons.  Okay, Matt and Solon left for health reasons and Tomo recently got married, so they probably have perfectly normal reasons for not continuing to tour, but my head canon is funnier. ...

Have you played Heroes of the Storm ?  It's Blizzard's brawler... MOBA... collectible... what genre is this game, even?  Well, it's fun, that's for sure.  I decided to test it out after binging on trailers   (don't do it, the rabbit hole is deep! but fun) and realizing that I have never played HotS, but I have played other Blizzard games.  So I figured I would give it a try. I knew that I would be starting off at a huge disadvantage, what with being free to play and starting at level 1 but - it doesn't matter.  What matters is if you click (not even how fast) and if you are capable of teamwork.  I made some mistakes, and - people were nice about it.  I even accidentally joined an endgame match and ruined it for my team :( but they were all pretty chill about it.  HotS has a pretty generous questing/reward system that does not specify winning.  They just want you to play.  This is the regular matches, I assume the eSports sect...