I can't believe you wasted Tony Hawk's time with this terrible ongoing column, or that it's escaped the terrible bounds of Allison's purview. For shame, Kate. 

There's no alternative to properly training your employees. 

And once again my heart weeps at the lack of further exploration of StarCraft’s excellent lore, unencumbered by a focus on traditional RTS gameplay. I love the genre, but I’ve wanted a fresher take and and a deeper dive into that world for decades now (not counting the lackluster novels that are incompatible with the…

Tom Holland?! Because Nathan Drake needs a 12-year old looking babyface, said nobody ever. I hate to suggest that a hardworking actor be aggressively typecast based solely on his appearance, but it's frankly distracting, and not in a good way. Nor does he yet have the gravitas of somebody like DJ Qualls, that lets you…

Even Halo, based on a far-flung future sci-fi conflict, had to change the medpack design for having the temerity to put a red cross on it. 

I have to agree with Activision here, with a minor caveat. The Humvee is indeed an iconic US military vehicle on the same level as past generations used the Jeep. Humvees and even the newer MRAPs have been widely used in not just video games, but in movies, TV shows, comics, and other media to realistically depict the…

I dunno, but Hulu pulled the plug on the Wii U for some reason, even though Netflix and Crunchyroll are still going strong. 

Mmmn, goat stew! 

Stop using terrible Apple products and you'll discover that their competitors don't have this issue. 

Yeah, unfortunately the big picture storytelling is definitely lacking in the game, though the game's squad narrative is very good, and there’s an emotional impact in seeing these massive battles. I get the impression that for once they really expected you to read the supplemental material to get a handle on what was…

That one weird wolf that decided to hang out with humans instead of exclusively other wolves all those millennia ago really made the right choice. 

Meanwhile bottled water, purchased from a vendor right outside the security checkpoint, is still verboten. Fuck the TSA. 

Shockingly not even the first time this has happened. Here’s a similar video uploaded to Youtube 2 years ago.

You say that like rats aren't cute. 

That's uh, very retro chic...

Man, they really broke this squirrel by getting it addicted to umami flavors. Unfortunately, this doesn't really fit into the traditional narrative of not feeding wild animals, since squirrels were literally stocked in cities artificially as living scenery. Probably this one shouldn't have been spoiled, but since it…

Yes you do; I've decided. 

Thank you for this important public service! 

Inkling-kouhai, that's pretty terrific, as was the contextless Mimikyu pic. Snark and charm go a long way in putting people at ease, which helps constructive criticism. 

The novel expands on this a lot more, but Reach is firstly, kind of a backwater, and is relatively sparsely populated. It was used as an R&D center for the UNSC military, and once the Covenant war broke out, much of the civilian population was removed. It’s where the Spartans and other special projects were produced,…