But… that's not even a line in the song. It's a line from a skit that plays before "You Took The Words Right Out of My Mouth."

Forget picking a metre and sticking with it, these guys didn't even seem to realize that metre is an element of poetry! The dialogue reads most of the time like prose with weirdly placed line breaks and rhymes/slant rhymes sprinkled throughout. I think I broke it down somewhere by saying it's 60% bearable, 30%…

I bet if you got one now, Wonderful 101 would keep you entertained until Bayonetta 2 drops!

If we're talking games that came out this year, Mario Kart 8 has the crown at the moment. Just a delight: great track design, great music, beautiful graphics, hours of fun. I should also shout out to Shovel Knight, which is, at the very least, my indie game of the year thus far.

Ah, jeez, now I'm definitely going to need to turn to attacking Chad Kroeger personally to critique his song!

Yeah, that seems like a pretty sound theory.

Haha, I was going for providing said concise example while also acknowledging that, ultimately, I'm totally susceptible to the same impulse. Because I really do find that guy irritating for no reasonable reason. I'm sure there's a better than decent chance that he's at least an all right guy.

Broadly speaking, I agree with you that one shouldn't judge a band based on likely inaccurate assumptions about what the band members are like.

Jason Biggs: a lovely, loveable man who the people love to love.

Probably only one corpse, but the real interest is in the wacky string of misunderstandings that leads to him fucking that corpse. And the facial gurning Seann William Scott will have to employ to convey this new level of Stifler's disgusting shame.

Admittedly, I can't confirm what life events will be used to round out the second American Pie trilogy! But those seemed like decent guesses.

Interesting, then, that his "very outspoken" disdain for Jason Biggs can't be verified through Google. And that he hasn't refused to work with him at all, given that the two shared several scenes in American Reunion and will almost certainly share more in American Bar Mitzvah and American Funeral (at least in the…

Agreed! Which was why I was so frustrated to see friends on Facebook sharing a brand new Dorkly comic that characterized the WiiU as a one-trick puppy with no games. Particularly when, at this early point in their life cycles, the PS4 and XB1 legitimately suffer from a lack of software (like any new console inevitably…

They're very similar, but I find Forbidden Desert to be vastly superior: it has more variables to keep track of (but not too many!), which gives it more depth. And the shifting board mechanic is really cool.

Board games by the sea for me! Taking one full day and two half days off of thesis writing, which I will surely come to regret, to retreat to the family cottage with some dear friends. Forbidden Desert, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Ticket to Ride, Smallworld, and for outdoor fun, washer toss and croquet.

Yeah, the NSMB games necessitate a kind of weird reaction. On the one hand, Mario is all about creativity and wonder and suchlike things, so games that just give really good level design in the incredibly polished and well-loved 2D Mario platforming style and no more are inherently disappointing.

I actually thought NSMBU was the best of the series so far… it's got a bit more personality than the other three, even if it's still aggressively retreading what has come before. If it had been the first title in the series, I bet the series would have a better reputation.

A good thing to keep in mind with Super Meat Boy is that every level is optimized for speedruns. So there's almost always a way to charge full-tilt ahead and have timing for obstacles line up properly.

Congrats on beating Dark Souls! I was unable to complete it before thesis-writing swallowed my summer, alas…

Apologies in advance for being a pedant with an English MA, but I'd argue that the dialogue in Child of Light reads like bad poetry not because of the rhyme, but because the person who wrote it seems to have thought that rhyme is the only element of poetry. So what you end up looking at is basically prose with oddly…