I could be completely off-base here, but I'm getting the nagging sense that these pieces, with the recurring "JAPAN IS CUH-RAZY" theme, are misleading, and maybe a little gross.

Fully prepared to be crucified for this, but every jackass who talks about WNBA players not looking like they want them to should

I had the same thought. Not so much a peek at multiplayer, as a glorious end-of-days premonition.

The photographer should be proud of that last shot, with the out-thrust arm and microphone snaking across more than half the frame, and of course it's from E!

I agree. Set aside the poor choice of words (mashing is never really going to have positive connotations), and it's pretty standard hack-and-slash stuff. If anything, he's trying to sex up some completely regular game mechanics.

How is this not the most viral video in the world?

The realization that you didn't really know what your own hair felt like, after all that time, is heart-breaking. I've got various water-inducing things in my eyeballs right now, it seems. Great piece.

The tent-like short-sleeved button-downs and giant backpacks are a bit of a buzzkill, though.

Staggering. You not only use this as an awkward excuse to drag out your soapbox, but you also make assumptions about how he lived, and how he died. Like you've never seen an overweight person who eats organic? Like there's some sort of unreported average life expectancy collapse that organic food is reversing? Like…

Hey now, he was pretty great on Shipmates, if only because he couldn't seem to conceal his complete revulsion towards the show.

For real, though, I'd play a New Wave MMO where all you did was work on your hair, pick out clothes, then go to clubs and act super bored. Less tedious than collecting 12 alligator scales from the local respawning monster swamp.

Gameplay footage please. Enough with this cutscene crap.

Shame on MS, sorta, for trying to attach legal weight to brainstorming sessions. But also shame on anyone who really bothers making fun of names that didn't go the distance. Collective brainstorms are safe spaces!

Yeah, his character design is awfully dorky, especially considering how great most of the villains look in this game. I actually think they should have just yoinked the Man of Steel version, with or without Shannon's likeness.

You realize Jessica Nigri is ultimately paid to do what she does, right? She's not trying to trick the greater geek dude population into accepting her, and, what, marrying her? It doesn't matter whether you think she's legit or not—she dresses up in geeky stuff for professional exposure, and for cash.

For every comment I feel the urge to respond to, you're already there, kicking righteous ass. Well done.

I wish we were flying Pan Am to the stars. (Or low-Earth-orbit, at the very least.)

"BELLY AND ALL"

I kept thinking it was her, but considering how skeletal she was, that made no sense. You're right, though, the weight thing was a smokescreen for other stuff.

A moment of silence for the only TV show (in my memory) to tackle the pressing issue of weight-reduction for fuel savings, albeit about a million years ago. Though I can't remember which attendant was being dressed-down, as it were.