Seeing this pop up was the best I've felt about the AVC in ages. Glad to see you here again, Nathan.

*cue appearance by that guy who lectured everybody here some time back about how you were wrong and ignorant if you preferred the appearance of the traditionally animated films*

Also, watching that video brought me back to playing the original on my Dreamcast, via that method of depicting conversations:

When Plus was first announced, I was all set to give it a shot (the free version of Hulu had always irritated me due to the commercials and the crappy site). I did a free trial, but canceled it as soon as I realized they were going to make me pay for a still-crappy web site *and* still make me watch (buggy, extremely…

But where else will we go for articles about how the Stones invented Southern rock, The Woods is "just okay," and Taylor Swift is the most important artist in musical history?

Seriously, people, the Internet is really good at delivering text-based information. Videos are such a commitment, especially when 9/10 are amateurish or irritating.

The video obsession bugs me, too.

Anybody else remember when they made movies in color?

I guess my problem is that it gets treated as a zero sum thing very often: "this movement wasn't utterly perfect, so it's garbage." That strikes me as an *extremely* unhealthy and this race to make everything so polarized strikes me as counterproductive.

The whole "you're never good enough" thing is very noticeable to me, and it really bugs me when I see it applied, often retroactively, to previous efforts to break through bias or discrimination.

I do a lot of black & white photography, and yeah, I agree - everything I've seen of people praising "Frances Ha" and its b&w look baffled me, because everything I've seen from the movie looked utterly drab and dreary and boring as hell. I've never seen anything that actually looks as though it takes advantage of…

As one of the AV Club's biggest Beach Boys/Brian Wilson dorks, I am really excited to see this. I'm glad to see it's apparently pretty darn good.

Well, as Fifty Shades started as a BDSM-flavored Twilight fan fiction, and there's some Twilight spinoff written from Edward's perspective (or at least, there was supposed to be), it looks like E. L. James is just keeping up the "non-mythological Twilight ripoff" thing going.

I feel like "Skydivers" is by far the most watchable Coleman Francis movie, which isn't saying much, but it's definitely less of a struggle to get through.

I have enough issues w/ virtualization gaming that I'm going to go Boot Camp today, I've decided.

I haven't really followed the rumors all that much - is the expectation that the game will just present you with "the character," this pre-war soldier, already made up and that's it, or are you still going to be able to custom-build a player character, with different appearance/gender/etc.?

Yeah, I'm sort of wondering if maybe I should just bite the bullet and get a new console one of these days. I don't think I've owned one since…jeebus, the Dreamcast.

I'm a longtime Fallout fan, played the hell out of the first two, and FO3 did sort of leave me cold. New Vegas was the one that felt more like the Fallout I know and love in terms of charm and personality. I'm not as excited about another Bethesda outing. :/

Yeah, I'm on board for this.

Also, GJ,I! remains hot garbage.