Guess I shoulda scrolled all the way to the bottom before commenting above. Agreed, anyhow, well put.

I think music video musician is a perfectly respectable niche. They are, I think it's pretty inarguable, very good at the video-making aspect of what they do, both in conception and execution. That's a craft, and I don't see why they can't get respect for that even if most people (myself included) find their songs…

Because he has the biggest, brownest, most soulful eyes.

"Oh boohoo, you're here against your will, are you going to keep bringing that up?"

Oh hey the article makes a similar joke. So it goes.

Superman is very confused and a little offended that he's moving his arms and they're not going where he tells them to.

On running through the woods, I kinda agree, but I comfort myself by thinking that there's a world of difference between training for a sport and, y'know, life and death struggles out in the real world. Particularly while injured and maybe concussed.

I adore this show but my eyes almost rolled out of my head at that. Just a boring, disappointing plotline to throw in. Especially after they made fun of exactly the same stupid cliche with Ana Jarvis just an episode or two ago.

While I'll defend the idea in principle, as a practical matter I tend to agree that it seems like a losing fight. I've known a number of people - mostly young and still figuring out this gender thing for themselves in the first place - who tried out ze or one of its relatives and it hasn't stuck for any of them. It's…

I think there really is a pretty primal question at play here for some people. So it's not about inclusion, it's about identity. Like, what if both "he" and "she" have really negative or just plain inaccurate connotations for you, so you feel uncomfortable with either applied to you? Result: you feel uncomfortable…

I was almost convinced too. After all, we know that Brakebills sometimes expels people, and institutionalizing them seems like a pretty good way to make it stick.

My read was that it was meant to disrupt Lexa's peace conference to have the Sky Crew come crashing in guns blazing. Certainly at different points in this show that would have led to a full-blown massacre.

Yeah, no character creation. There are a dozen or so classes, some seem more common than others, and each of the newbies will have a class and a few personality traits (things like afraid of the undead, won't drink to relieve stress, likes the dark) so they're all a little different but it's just a matter of checking…

Every new recruit starts at level 0, you can recruit freely (you get a randomized assortment in on the stage coach after every mission you can choose from) but have a maximum roster size. So when you replace somebody who dies you're replacing them with a level 0 character. So it's a loss, but the small saving grace is…

Same thing happened to me. I never axed anyone, but there was this weird mid-game period where I was hoarding my low-level characters so that they could beat the rank 1 and 2 bosses as they became available, and only really doing rank 3 runs otherwise. Strange effect. Solved it by saving for a few coach upgrades (it…

That happened to me too! When I hit a low point at school last year (or maybe the year before? it blurs together) all the joy went out of those stupid optional DLC bosses in Dark Souls 2. I was struggling plenty in real life and just didn't need to be challenged that way. Still haven't beat all of 'em, probably won't.

I'm actually very lukewarm on the Darkest Dungeon itself, for just the reasons you mention. I don't mind that it's a real step up in difficulty, and has all kinds of odd gimmicks that you haven't encountered before, but I feel like the whole philosophy of the game is reconnaissance and planning and those last few maps…

Having played the game pretty thoroughly and all the way through at this point, I think the difficulty starts modest and increases pretty steadily, and I found the gameplay for the most part really enjoyable. I'm very much a turn-based strategy person, I should say - so maybe if games like Final Fantasy Tactics, the…

I think the review overstates the difficulty, especially in early in the game (I didn't lose anyone until the back third or so, when the game takes the gloves off as you've presumably figured out what you're doing). But yeah, fair enough, not everything's for everyone.

This game is a gem. Albeit one I've shut off in disgust and angrily ignored for weeks at a stretch.