That sucks. I had a ticket to see Levon Helm right before he passed, and that made his death even more of a gut punch for me.

We used to play the Block Fort battle level in Mario 64, and everybody would shoot as many green shells from the tops of the blocks as possible. Red shells were shot into walls, and bananas and fake items were left on the yellow, which functioned as a garbage dump. Once you got a ton down there, somebody would go…

As an Oilers fan who followed his team to Nashville and became I Titans fan, I really pine for the Warren Moon era.

Shot in dark, but are you by any chance the CharAznable who used to post on the Sydlexia forums back in the day? You'd be the second old Sydlexian I've run into on here.

I absolutely loved it and never understood the backlash.

Holy crap, I forgot about James Bond Jr. Oh wow at the memories jumping back from the ether. I think that came on right after Hanna Barbara Godzilla.

I pretty much agree about King Crimson, but on the other hand, Bruford and Belew both had 20 year tenures. And I was mostly thinking of the album Thrak, which features the entire 80s Discipline era band, plus two extra people.

Counterpoint: Pablo Honey came out 23 years ago, and I really dig late period King Crimson.

I'm reading that as a no.

Can a gif actually be sumptuous?

I just want to chime in and say that I love your literature reviews just as much as your film reviews, and I'm very glad you've been doing these.

It's the upcoming Scorsese movie, based on the Shusaku Endo novel about Jesuit priests in 17th Century Japan. Neeson is in it.

Don't ruin all my hopes for Silence!

You're right, he really was tremendous in Brazil.

The only Civilization game I ever played was III, and I liked aspects of that game a lot, but then whenever it got to combat, I was always pissed off that if a dude with an ax got in a fight with an F-16, it was a coin toss who would win. Did later games fix this at all?

You may have been sitting in front of my dad.

I'm a high school computer programming teacher, and I try to make most of my curriculum video game related, as in, if we're learning about the List data structure, we'll create a game as a classes that requires Lists for some of its behavior. A handful of my high achievers are ready to start making much more complex…

I'm currently reading Carthage Must Be Destroyed by Richard Miles. I realized a couple weeks ago that there was a giant Mediterranean empire that I knew absolutely nothing about, other than that Rome destroyed them, and wanted to rectify the situation. I'm about a hundred pages in, and so far I really recommend it. …

What game is this from?

I've been waiting for Teti's strong editorial hand like Godot.