I’m pretty sure their biggest show being about a young Jewish mother making it in the world of comedy in the 1950s, despite the misogyny. I’m pretty sure that’s nega-dad.

Yeah! Now stop interrupting me while I play Skyrim with Macho Man Randy Savage instead of dragons. 

Theoretically. But that tends to break down a lot, if only because games tend to devolve into “kill everything that moves,” which limits where the narrative can take you. And then when you sacrifice something or someone so you can have +4 attack power. Games can still be powerful, but frequently, they aren’t. 

It’s probably also trite to say this, but all the moral quandaries in Mass Effect, I had already experienced in the TV show Babylon 5. 

If you’re specifically taking a renegade path. But that wouldn’t jive much with worrying about genocide. As an aside, in games where you can go bad, I find it much more difficult to go bad as I’ve grown older. 

The games made a lot more sense in general when they were coupled with rotating sales, so there was more incentive to check in every 20 minutes. Now, I can just look at the sale, go “OK, only one game at the price point I want,” and move on. 

Face front, true believer! Nuff said!

Because nothing says X-Men to me like playing a singular character who might also be the bad guy. 

I think there are a couple of Aliens games where you gestate a fetus. Do they count?

But does he shut his mouth?

Forget about the song, that’s a pretty amazing video that somehow tells the story about the journey of the song. This is too many stages of meta. 

Jax created a perfect utopia, but donuts are completely unknown. 

Paul Bearer would have made more sense. Gaming stereotypes aside, he was an actual mortician. 

I’d say less goodwill, more “It’s six years later.”

A good part of it is also the difference between announcing it in 2013 and 2019.

The original Carmen Sandiego games were as much, if not more, about learning to use research tools than actually learning about geography. New tools for a new generation.

Except when they’re not. There was a mini event Marvel did decades ago where they showed what comics look like in the Marvel Universe. Rick Jones and Steve Rogers wrote and drew the Captain America one. Let’s just say, canon was a little different. 

So bit of a digression, but same thing with Spider-Man: Enter the Spider-Verse. There’s a bunch of stuff you’re not going to get unless you’ve seen all the movies AND read the comics. Like, assuming you’ve only seen the movies, why is Norman Osborn this hulking dragon thingy?
Spider-Verse gets away with it more…

Also co-eds or librarians. 

And then it’s that Ubisoft screwed up, because they literally have an explanation for everything that you see seemingly every time you load the game. You are a Spartan. Spartans, as a culture, are supergay. I read an interesting description of them recently, they weaponized homosexuality. At the same time, there’s…