Where was the No Rain cover? That's one of the very few songs I initially liked but have grown to hate over its ubiquity in commercials and overplaying in general.

Obligatory link to Dean Ween's highly entertaining takedown of What's Up: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

I heard a song recently, apparently it was "Work" by Rihanna, and it was the worst song I've ever heard in my life. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it somehow had 7 people credited as writing it and 5 producers. How does it take so many people to create something so simple and shitty.

Hey Buddy, what's this drunk monkey doing flying this pla-a-a-a-a-a-a-aaaaaane

45 comments and not a single troll yet. Not holding my breath for more than one or two eventually showing up, either.

This is like when Criterion announced its own streaming service, people here were cheering it on even though it already existed as part of Hulu. People can be kind of dumb.

Yeah, the US isn't some monolithic entity so I think targeting the national anthem for protest is silly. Putting the national anthem on a pedestal is too, probably.

Spaceballs was my first Brooks movie but the stuff I find funny about it now is mostly different from the stuff I found funny about it as a kid, so I'd say it's more than just rose colored glasses.

I had a Virtual Boy and Mario Tennis, Wario Land, and Virtual League Baseball, and had fun with all of them, but I think they probably would have worked better as Super Nintendo games. The 3D effect of the Virtual Boy itself never did much for me.

That was true through Windows 98, but not since Windows NT/2000/XP/7/8/10, even if you can still run console commands.

Maybe it's because I don't ever carry a balance but I'm not sure what your expectations of a credit card are. To me they just provide a convenient way to pay, give me some cash back, and maybe a little more security than a debit card.

Didn't he work up the guts to let go three times? There are at least two different takes of the clocktower fall in this video, and I had thought there were three: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

It may not have really ever gone beyond the film, but the people I've talked to who have seen Blade Runner a long time ago basically remember 2 things about it: how it looked and how it sounded. I'd say it's still a huge part of the movie.

Corvus6 is talking about the remake.

I assume 99% of the reviews are made up and that the diarrhea effect isn't especially out of the ordinary.

How would you be able to tell that?

We've got spoiler tags now, someone spoil that shit already.

I think, moreso than the gaming press, it was the respectable mainstream media that really drove the hype train. When you see a game getting hyped up in the New Yorker or Atlantic, as this one was, then you think wow, it's gotta be huge.

I get the feeling reviewers want to distance themselves from what's perceived as the frothing masses of reddit, where the backlash is most pronounced.

The developer absolutely did describe many ideas as being in the game that aren't. The big one, to me, is how they said that the sun/stars/sky would NOT be a skybox, that they would actual objects governed by physics—it turned out that it actually is a skybox. Maybe these kinds of features had to be cut for technical…