I was traveling with my family most of the weekend, so while Mad Men sits in the DVR for viewing tonight, my media intake was largely limited to checking out Mekakucity Actors, the new anime directed by Akiyuki Shinbo (of Bakemonogatari and Madoka Magica fame). And you can tell it's Shinbo because we get our first…

Am I the only person who remembers SSH's How I Got Into College?

It's currently broken in Pinball Arcade for iOS, but may work on other versions (and definitely works on real table). When you get to the Holodeck (on the screen, where you press left for 25 million or press right for shuttle simulation), hold the trigger and flip right. You'll play one hand of 5 Card Draw poker…

White Water for me. I've got all the wizard goals for it in Pinball Arcade and I keep going back to it. Runners-up (IRL): High Speed, ST:TNG, Phantom of the Opera, and Elvira and the Party Monsters.

Did you ever play the Cmdr. Riker poker game that's hidden in the ST:TNG pin?

Loved the reference to the Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids: all those pins in good working condition (only place I've ever played Cirqus Voltaire) and lots of great beers.

I think you're right that ambitious finales generally rise in esteem over the years. Patrick McGoohan has said he had to go into hiding after the ending of The Prisoner, which is regarded as brilliant nowadays. Apparently, audiences at the time wanted the little butler to be No. 1. Can you imagine how cheesy that…

Wow we literally watched none of the same shows except for Space Dandy.

With all its callbacks and mythology — the iconic yellow umbrella was just a single line of dialogue, though later reinforced through conspicuous appearances — I wonder if HIMYM would have been successful, or even possible, in the pre-DVR era. It doesn't seem like "drop-in" viewing like Friends, which only had broad…

"Mant! Half man! Half ant! All terror!"

And yes, I should probably move Kill La Kill back into the active queue, now that people are going nuts about its finale.

Thank you for reminding me of Matinee. That was a fun little movie.

This week was the end of the Winter 2014 anime simulcast season and when hotel wifi could keep up (I was at a conference for iOS developers), I finished off my shows:

The first Attack on Titan opening was epically meme-worthy, but I found I liked the music of the second one better: a soaring national anthem that suddenly turns into speed-J-rock.

BTW, don't read the Wikipedia page for Arisa, as it gives away the identity of the villain. #spoilers

As a kid, I remember seeing this in TV Ontario, which had a regular series of Harold Lloyd movies. I was surprised later to learn that few people were familiar with Lloyd (beyond the iconic Safety Last! image), because his heirs had been fairly stingy with the film rights, which meant that fairly few people had seen…

I watched the first few episodes of My Little Monster on Crunchyroll last year and thought it was pretty good… might be worth getting back into.

The original Peanuts was so personal and so much about the things that mattered to Charles Schulz — sports, neuroses, remembering WWII, etc. — that it's probably impossible for a modern film to capture the essence of the original. This trailer and its pedigree (directing an Ice Age movie is thought to be a good…

I see what you did there.

Pains me that Robyn and her sister had old Atlanta Thrashers jerseys, with the logos removed. YOU ALREADY STOLE THE TEAM, CANADA, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?