Sorry guys, but I've established base camp in the Morality Dictation Sector. You both have to run backwards until you can hit the Calvinball with the Invisible Wiffle-bat of Apology.

I thought the only rule was "no cheating!"

Man, she picks up the nuances of this game FAST!

Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

Wh … WHAT?

Don't forget to use your nails, boys!

Technically, if you define hemispheres by the Prime Meridian, Germany is just barely on the eastern side. But whatever, New World works too.

Give "Dixit" a try, Moose. It's kind of like Balderdash meets Apples to Apples except that you're making up captions for illustrations instead of working with just words. It's got more personality than either game and neatly avoids the rules-bending you seem to hate about those games (though I personally think that's…

I try to give my dad MST3K episodes for Christmas, so we can spend the holidays watching them.

Apples to Apples is the best party game ever invented, at least for big parties where not everyone knows each other that well. The key is to not bother with points and just play until it gets boring. That way no one gets competitive (a sure way to ruin a party game), and the fun stems from getting to know each…

Nah, stone is where it's at. Rarely does a player with no access to stone ever go on to win. The rewards for city-building are just too great.

How the hell did a German guy manage to get converted to Mormonism? I thought that was mostly a Western-Hemisphere thing.

Get a room, you two!

I disagree that Buffy was specifically written to appeal to dudes. First of all, Buffy is not the only character—Willow is a total wallflower (at least in the first season, which is all I've seen) and there's another girl who plays the bitchy-cheerleader type, yet both are just as well-drawn as Buffy is without…

You hit the nail on the head re: Twilight's status as emotional pornography. Because that's what it is: pandering, unrealistic bullshit designed to scratch an itch, nothing more. Now, there's an argument to be made that pornography isn't necessarily a bad thing to indulge in (though I personally am pretty conservative…

Any Oscar race that doesn't include The Tree of Life as a frontrunner is not even worth discussing.

Here's what the plot looked like to me: spunky girl balks at being ladylike, somehow cons her way into the hunting trip to kill the tribe's bugaboo bear-monster, finds and befriends the bear-monster's cubs, finds out that bear-monster should be left alone instead of hunted down by superstitious Scotsmen.

Yeah, I was surprised to find this trailer kind of bland. With the exception of the badass-looking spirit-bear thing, this looks like like pretty standard kid-drama. The whole "spunky little girl who likes fightin' better than dolls" thing is pretty passe at this point.

World 5-3, baby! I loved Kuribo's Shoe so much that I would purposely jump into a pit at the end of that level so I could play it again. Shame that it never showed up in any of the other levels, though I guess that's part of the appeal.

I was always disappointed by the Hammer Suit. It looked so awesome, but the hammers were too hard to aim to be useful, and the "crouch to be fireproof" ability almost never came up. :(