I have never understood why a Pocket Princess comic was supposed to be funny. It's relatively easy to pick out a specific line and go "Oh, that's the line that's supposed to be funny!", but that's only a matter of beat—whatever principles are supposed to make each punchline a humorous statement are arcane to me.

I'm not consistently amused by five of these comics. They each take about fifteen seconds to read, though, and they give a chuckle every once in a while. Besides, none of them are as bad as Ctrl Alt Del.

TV Tropes compiled a list for Madison: "Not only did she run into a serial killer taxidermist even before the game starts (via DLC), during the actual plot she runs into a guy who's after another serial killer (ironically the one she was looking for in the DLC). In the course of investigating that, she gets captured…

I've heard it argued that big companies don't need to do demos now because so many people preorder—if the game's any good, the folks who preordered will tell all their friends to buy it, too. This ignores the vital market of people who don't have friends. (Seriously, just because I have some overlap in taste with my…

Supposedly, Dazzler is one of the most powerful mutants in the Marvel universe who isn't an outright reality warper. She never really gets to show that, though, because no writer wants the chick with disco powers to be the key to defeating a villain.

Speaking of inconsistencies, I think that last one in the list should be IV, not V.

A commenter named Anthony Chan left this under that article. It's worth reposting:

Overall, I actually prefer The Hunger Games to Battle Royale, for two reasons:

Stan Lee once said that he could scientifically explain almost everything in his comics (by which he meant that he could babble about unstable molecules.) The one exception was that he had no explanation for the Hulk's pants.

What about Dark Souls? It's mid-budget and sold ludicrously well.

Edit to the edit: Just figured out that's a drawing of you. Did you draw it yourself? Something about that style looks incredibly familiar.

I've heard it said that the basic test of whether a system for transmitting information is functional at all is whether it's being used to transmit porn. (The test for whether it's thriving is whether it's being used to transmit political slogans.)

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Brave Raider sounds like a '90s JRPG. Shadow of the (Horned) Rat was a '90s game, though I think it was one of those tactics games like Myth.

Who here actually watched Buzz Lightyear of Star Command? I know it must have been more light-hearted than Mass Effect (kids' show and all), but was it the kind of show for which a Mass Effect crossover fanfic could work? (All I know about it is that the unscrupulous robot was considered really funny and the vampire…

I'm disappointed they didn't use BitF's other strip this week.

I remember someone saying that the protagonist in Bioshock is probably around seven feet tall. (Makes sense if you consider his backstory—his appearance is that of a person who can walk into a room and take command.) I can't say I've personally noticed it, though.

Yeah, that's pretty obviously ridiculous. I don't know how that fits with "playtested." (Then again, wasn't there a point when it was conventional wisdom that any card, no matter how overpowered, was worthless if it cost more than 6 mana?)

You have revealed to me the inverse of the Theiss Titillation Theory. I once read a Monster Manual that had a topless picture of an old swamp witch, and while she was certainly not a pleasant sight, she wasn't nearly as sanity-blasting as that female troll in that skimpy outfit.