I'm fairly certain John getting to do this is the only reason the AV Club show exists in the first place. He plays a long game.

Yes and yes.

As long as it's not a boojum.

Space blessings upon the anniversary of your expulsion from the womb.

Given the tendency of both leaders involved toward hyperbolic bullshit, I'm inclined to skepticism.

Give us hell, MLA!

I've been reading and commenting less and less over the past year or so, so it's likely that the changeover will be reason enough for me to give up the latter entirely. The site just doesn't take up enough of my attention anymore.

Mmm, that's some good cold-reading.

I remember it because it gets shown on cable a lot for some reason.

We're going to be invaded by people on their pilgrimage to Mecca? Seems like a roundabout route.

I only remember one thing from that movie: the black defendant sees the all-white jury file past him, turns to his lawyer, and says "That's a jury of my peers?" It's a useful example of unnecessarily making the subtext text. The image itself easily shows us the point, but then we're told what it is anyway because we…

"Rachel forgot the photo shoot was early this morning and slept in, and we decided to make the best of it."

Oh, probably one of my many, many old edutainment games from back in the day. I held onto the CD-ROMs for most of them out of affection. They're most likely unplayable on modern computers, but they're fun to look at on occasion.

That boy ain't right.

This Week in (Don't Date) Robots: I wrapped up my New Game+ run through Persona 5, so I think next I'll dive into the other wackadoo Japanese sensation of the year, Nier: Automata. After the (refreshingly streamlined) turn-based RPG battles of P5, something more action-oriented should be a nice change of pace. Further…

That's true in the Arkham games as well, and it's always good for a chuckle.

I think it's more likely that the person who wrote the headline just hasn't read the book.

Aw, thanks. That was fun.

Aw man, I was hoping the negative headline for this would be "The Dark Tower has forgotten the face of its father."

Either she sprayed a bride in the face with Mace, or hit her with a blunt medieval weapon.