It was a good call on Sunday when I said that this week would be all about the indie games. Proving that I'm some sort of prophet, independent studio Strange Loop Games has released a new trailer for "Vessel," a side-scrolling platformer where you use various fluids to create puzzle-solving automata. Need to put out a fire? Use water. Need to burn the faces off your enemies? Try lava. Want to host a bitchin' rave party? Fluorescents would be the obvious choice.

I'm really digging the indie games lately. As you may recall, the last mainstream title that I bought was Epic Mickey: a game that not even a child would enjoy, and children are fucking retarded. Before that it was AVP, so big studios don't exactly have the best rapport with me anymore. You could blame it on me for playing anything other than Call of Duty, but then I could in turn blame you for the systematic degradation of the entire games industry by supporting Activision's yearly bullshit model (YBM). If I want to play a first-person shooter I'll reinstall Doom or Quake. The biggest innovation to the FPS genre since then has been vehicular combat and CoD doesn't even have that.

I really hate to be the one to break it to you, but your parents and I agree that you have shitty tastes in games. I recommend playing "Vessel" when it comes out this winter.