*clears throat*

Nintendo, specifically, doesn't try to position themselves as significant cultural achievements, or having "relevance" to literally anything at all. The games industry as a whole is doing that, but Nintendo dogmatically isn't switching positions as the author is claiming here, often to their own detriment as a…

"they’re happy to claim games’ relevance to the broader culture until
that relevance gets them in a bind, and then suddenly we’re just talking
about dumb, fanciful video games, so what’s the big deal, everybody?"

Yeah, there's a lot of theory as to abiogenesis, but it's definitely not something that's proven the way "humans are descendants of other species" is.

Couldn't agree with this more. I think it's fantastic for trends, worthless for the individual film. My favorite example is that Thor passes the test because Jane says some technobabble to her assistant, but the Avengers doesn't because the handful of female characters, while capable and intelligent, don't have…

It's a little wild and a little strange!

Remind me again of that comprehensive, empirical study that shows a direct correlation between recent weather and global warming?

Resident Evil 6. It's not actually a bad game, it just does an absolutely horrible job teaching you how to play it.

Huh. It's almost like he doesn't know anything about game design and the only reason his games come out at all is because he normally has a high funding level???

"Watching it is like eating a salad made in the dark by a 5-year-old—it doesn’t taste good, but on the other hand, there are M&Ms in it."
Thank you for this.

In the network's defense, the show's performance has always been shaky.

oh no

His stories all follow the same format(Murder mystery!), and he doesn't respect the characters as written. He walks in, is allowed to grab a HUGE number of characters for his story, then he writes them literally however he feels like or remembers, ignoring any changes to the character that have occurred since he last…

My problem with the show is that it doesn't feel like a superhero show AT ALL. The vast majority of the episodes(before I quit watching) could EASILY just be episodes of Chuck, but with 10% of the humor. When your plot is "find the McGuffin", you lose everything that makes the universe you exist in special.

Nick Kroll is very talented but I wish he would quit doing that insanely unfunny grating scream voice he does ALL THE TIME.
It instantly takes me from "really enjoying this" to "get him off the stage", and it comes across like something a new comic would try at open mic night, not the work of somebody who has had their…

There Wallace at.

So Tomb Raider.

…but you repeat yourself

I've never noticed before, but doesn't the main line owe a lot to "Get Off Of My Cloud"?

That's not a good standard.  According to Urban Dictionary, EVERYTHING is a slang term for a sex act.