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There's a certain kind of feeling when you leave a place or people that you've known for a long time and return to find things have changed.  It's the realization that the world, perhaps what you considered your world, has continued spinning without you.  Moved on without you. It's not a comfortable feeling and that's Gone Home at its core.  In Gone Home you play a young woman returning home from an extended trip abroad.  The game starts you off with you on the front porch, the house dark, and a note on the door.  The game from there has you exploring the house, trying to find where your family is. The gameplay is light. Mostly you lift objects and look at them, find others behind them. Read things. There's a puzzle or two but this isn't an adventure game at all. It's a story.  A story that is told through your interactions with the objects and places as you find them. Some interactions will have a memory relayed to you by a voic...

Seattle, I'm told, only averages about 150 sunny days each year.  If this is the case then no place in the Emerald city is making better use of the nice weather than the Peddler Brewing Company.  Flagship: Tropic Haze IPA Dogs: yes  Kids: yes Do they brew there: yes Food: food truck Has guest taps: yes Events: yes Outside seating: yes Payment: Card only Another of the great breweries in Ballard, Peddler sits just a stones throw from the Ballard Bridge. The building is big with wide windows that let in the sun. Fitting for a bicycle themed brewery a massive bike rack extended into the street out front.  Inside there's a great impression of space. High ceilings connect to plain walls that have been uniquely decorated. Any free space has been covered by maps showing off bike paths in different places, or bikes themselves. Most of these bikes are ruined and accompanied by a short story detailing their destruction. There's plenty of bar ...