RPS Talk-o-Tron Talkback-o-Tron #4

Time for another round-up of the more interesting recent threads on our surprisingly gentlemanly forum. Bloodshed is surely just around the corner, but for now it's a hive of entertaining and illuminating game discussion. Yay, you.

• Yahtzee's made a TV show with a couple of chums. Somehow watching all 30 minutes of the awful thing is likely to be one of my biggest regrets of 2008 - even more so than not managing to kill more puppies than I did last year - but what do you lot think?
• Apparently dissatisfied with our own best of 2008 year coverage, THE BIG STOOPID WHINERS, a set of good folk devise their own PC gaming advent calendar. It's doing a grand job of covering the best indie games of the year, which admittedly have fallen a little between the cracks of our own coverage. One Mr M. Circus has christened it the Festivus Calendar-o-Truth, which is exactly the kind of thing we'd have called it. Inserting an -o- into any phrase makes it 38% funnier. FACT-O-TRUTH.

• Simultaneous to that is the best games and biggest disappointments of 2008 thread. Everyone's voting Spore for the former and Left 4 Dead for the latter, of course.
• What are we on about with those nonsensical title bar messages? The forum plans to find out, apparently oblivious that it's simply a tragic result of the amount of meths we neck every night.
• There's a new Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion out. None of the hivemind have played it, because we've decided we hate PC games now. Some of the readers have, however - what do they think of Storm of Zehir? And, indeed, of NWN2 in general?
• Andrew Doull's running his annual Roguelike of the Year awards again, and is keen for you chaps to cast your votes. Dwarf Fortress scooped the gong last year, but what will this year's be? Any actively-developing roguelike qualifies.
• In light of that dodgy-lookin' Dante's Inferno game, the Talk-o-Tron denizens mull over which books would make decent games. I reckon See Spot Run and Lady's Chatterley's Lover. Possibly combined.
• A frightening number of people decide to tell the world exactly what type of keyboard they use. Well done, yous.
• There's an RPS Last.fm group. Bless you, sweeties.
• Some pretentious egomaniac's written another masturbatory comic based on his own tedious life. Astoundingly, a few people have bought it.