This is a terrible derail, but XKCD is terrible for the same reason Big Bang Theory is. The humour essentially consists of "SEE THIS THING YOU HAVE THOUGHT-SLASH-SEEN-SLASH-DONE? LOOK AT IT! LOOK! LOOOOK!"

Fuck the Haters
Universal Healthcare Owns. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorant. The Tea Parties are ridiculously ignorant and racist. Also anyone who thinks that AV Club Comments are a good place for substantial political discussion are even dumber than people who are against UHC.

I always thought that the whole point of the freaks reverting to monsters at the end was to demonstrate that the exploitation and abuse they suffer turned them into monsters. Dehumanizing conditions dehumanize.

I guess I just disagree that there's enough there beyond by-the-numbers children's movies and Bird's own angst over The Iron Giant to make them worth watching.

Think about it. Both his Pixar movies to date have been about uniquely wonderful people and the horrible, smelly, mediocre bureaucratic nothings that try to pull them down!

Brad Bird made one good movie
The Iron Giant. Every movie he's made since has basically been him whining about how no one liked The Iron Giant.

I got so mad when I read this, but then I rewatched Fame, and that made it all better.

I don't think there are words
for how profoundly this disgusts me. Good going, hollywood. You made me throw up a little in my mouth.

The worst thing is when you actually find yourself agreeing with White, even if it's about a movie like Avatar where he's just echoing a relatively popular sentiment. Because then it's like "Fuck, I'm actually agreeing with Armond White. Hot Pants. Jesus Christ."

The two complaints are one and the same.

I don't know if I agree with the praise
Don't get me wrong, it's a solid album by a great group, but it feels like they're reaching too hard for… accessibility, I guess.

@Rowan: You should try Persona 4 if you haven't already. It takes one of the same gambles as Final Fantasy XIII, with a really decompressed open, but it works because the world is pretty much the real world. Well, real-ish. So it's more about introducing you to the characters and the sleepy town where everything…

I haven't bought a Final Fantasy game since X
Not because it was bad, I just kind of lost interest in jRPGs in general other than the occasional Megaten game. A friend recommended this one and i picked it up on a whim and, um, I really have to agree with the review. The battles seem really oversimplified, the pacing…

One dude's liek, opinion and stuff
Before Plastic Beach really took shape, Abarn said that he wanted to create a concept album that didn't feature the characters but was still Gorillaz. He compared what he wanted to do with the film version of Tommy. The Who weren't in it, but it was still by The Who. I think he did…

Except it isn't "mature". It's actually mature. Sure, here's some nudity because David Cage is a creepy old man, but it's not like there's constant OH LOOK WE'RE SO MATURE WE HAVE BOOBS AND SWEARS shit like in most other games.

Finally
Finally, a mainstream game that doesn't patronize the player by assuming that he's a fifteen year old boy interested in nothing but tits, explosions and killing demons. It's just a shame that there's no way it'll beat out pedestrian, adolescent snorefest Mass Effect 2 for GOTY in any major publication.