One time I got a serious staph infection from a fairly minor scrape on my elbow that I obviously didn't clean properly (I scraped it sliding on a dirt basepath playing softball). I was on 3 courses of serious antibiotics for nearly a month. Doctor said that, if not treated, this particular infection would destroy my…

Unless you're Tool and rely on selling compact discs.

I grant you that it's a stretch to draw linkages between Final Fantasy VII and the present geopolitical situation, but in what sense is Animal Farm "bad"? It was a satirical allegory of communist Russia - hardly a trivialization.

Well Animal Farm was about some farm animals but it had some pretty interesting things to say about civics and politics. If using Final Fantasy VII as clickbait to draw in readers who might otherwise gloss over another piece about "Trump's Dystopia", what is the harm?

The theatrics, graphics and scale were so far beyond anything at the time and that set it apart. I recall sitting there, as a greasy-faced teenager, watching in awe at the opening cut scene with the train going to Midgar and could hardly believe I was playing a video game. All we had before it were 2D sprites. That…

I'm still dabbling with Fallout 4 now that mods are available for PS4 - I love settlement building. Recently played through Deus Ex Mankind Divided and enjoyed it. I also play a fair amount of Destiny. Just bought Overwatch for some kicks.

It's the best RPG I've ever played, and I've been playing RPGs since the original Final Fantasy in the NES days.

I feel the same way about Dark Souls. I put hundreds of hours into the first DS across multiple playthroughs - it's in my top 5 games of all time. I played through DS2 once, but felt it was missing something. I tried Bloodborne but only got about halfway through before losing interest. I'm just tired of Souls games…

The Witcher 3 is a masterpiece.

Deus Ex had a decent story and premise, I found that it was just incomplete. The side missions were terrific though and made up for what was lacking in the main story. And of course the gameplay and aesthetics were superb, just as in Human Revolution.

Me too. It had lines like "ONE SHALL STAND AND ONE SHALL FALL", and "YOU FAIL ME YET AGAIN, STARSCREAM".

Canada recently endured 10 years under a cartoonish right-wing government, before finally kicking those bigoted, fear mongering, climate-change denying shitbags to the curb.

Yes. It's called a Fender Bender.

Chances are pretty good that one person would get stuck with the bill.

In Canada one of our three major national parties is socialist. They have some popularity but are mostly an afterthought and usually finish a distant third in most national elections, well behind the traditional liberal and conservative parties. If a socialist party can't get elected in Canada of all places, I don't…

A sample comment from "Tom" at the Breitbart news website:

One might even call that foreshadowing. I was on my way out anyway, get your filthy hands off of me.

Ah yes, those. I always called them "MC Hammer pants".

I was a young teenager in the early 90s. What the fuck are parachute pants?

It's not misogynistic to watch porn as long as you feel guilty about it afterwards. Right?