Absolutely fair—I just enjoy the way RDR 2 handled the whole thing, and I don’t mind hitting it again after a break.  YMMV.

I may be one of a few (in a way that doesn’t make me special, but odd), but I enjoyed those opening sequences; helped to ground the gang’s situation and foreshadow what was to come (assuming a complete lack of experience with the previous RDR, anyway).

Folks play games for all kinds of reasons, though, so I’m glad…

In honor of Deadspin, should it not be “struck a dong?”

I love you for making this reference.

Hey Heather, gonna try to keep this brief: The work that you, Schreier, Gita, Nathan, Bashcraft, Totilo, and all the rest (apologies for not remembering everyone’s names in one go) do here is both entertaining and important. Your reviews are always informative, your investigative pieces engaging—and the willingness of…

Poor you, being obsessed enough to create an account for the sole purpose of mockery—and evidently have followed my posting history for, as you put it to another, “years.”

Accurate on both counts; he played M. Bison, and died very shortly thereafter.

The most recent write-up I’ve been able to find on the upcoming season three suggests he hasn’t played any of them, but if I’ve missed something, I’ll gladly admit to the error.

Kung-Fu Hustle is the greatest gangster movie of all time, and I’d say that to Coppola’s face.

I still feel that not getting Captain Lou Albano for the movie was an absolutely horrifying mistake.

...and as someone who loves Shaolin Soccer from the very bottom of his soul, I definitely get the “so bad it’s good” vibe—just not from this one, personally.

Oh, no doubt. I love some absolutely shitty movies (looking at you, Shaolin Soccer) despite—and sometimes because of—their awfulness.

Eleven year old me felt betrayed by the Mario movie. Thirty-seven year old me just finished binging the entirety of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, because god damn it, cheese ages…

Wasn’t it Van Damme who played Guile in that flick?  It’s been twenty-odd years, but I saw both of these in the theater, and the only thing I remember being any good about either of them was Raoul Julia.

I saw this flick during its original theater run.

I was eleven.

Even at the age where anything with a video game property even tangentially attached to it made my heart race, I knew this thing was absolute shit—and I knew it walking out of the theater.

I still own a copy, just to remind myself that I didn’t actually…

That.  Is.  Perfect.

Truer words.

Thank your fiance for what they do; education—especially K-12—can be a slog, but I’m grateful we have folks willing to look after the upcoming generations.

Oh, I’ll shoulder my portion of the blame. I tend to get my back up in defense of my wife and her continuing military service very, very quickly, and that can cause me to go off a little (or a lot) harder than I need to.

It’s a reflex I need to learn better control over.

But, yeah, we can blame the herb for the rest of…

I mean, did you read the review...? Because that’s definitely what the author’s doing here—and while I tend to agree with his view, getting after me for that seems like conflating targets.

If you genuinely believe that every soldier is infantry (and yeah, that’s the most basic component of their training, but still)—or even that every infantry soldier has killed another person in the course of their duty—then I don’t know what to tell you.

There’s an axiom about military life that is absolutely true: for…

Current profession. I see that your reading comprehension is roughly on a par with your rhetorical skills.

...and I definitely pointed out that I’ve been through BCT above.  I see we’re bypassing that on our route to making a “point.”

And that’s one hell of a tonal shift to “WAR CRIMES” from your previous posts. Just…