The trouble with having a "defined" perspective is that sometimes, its definition is "the perspective that stand-up comedians had in the 1980's."

There is a metric fuck-ton of hyperbole in this review.

I'm not sure which makes me feel worse: thinking that that qualifies in anyone's mind as sharp satire of anything, or recognizing that rap/hip-hop are so utterly stunted that it qualifies as taking the piss out of a "specific hip-hop subgenre," regardless of how well (or poorly) it's done.

It remains to be seen whether the Cortexiphan is what's causing/allowing Olivia to react this way, or if it's simply accelerating a process that's going to happen with everybody else anyway, or if it's just a red herring.

The Observer stuff was awkward; it was the kind of mush I'd expect to hear from an alien or a synthetic intelligence in a crappy, soft-sci-fi movie.

It missed a layup. Everybody knows that this project would be assigned to the Ministry of Completely Original Works.

Every year, television scheduling becomes a bigger clusterfuck. I can think of two shows that I watch religiously - Archer and Justified - that have, so far this season, run a new episode every week without any gaps for sweeps or post-sweeps or sports or reality competitions or… geez, I'm exhausting myself just…

I'd wager that Cyril really wouldn't want to see that.

Frankly I'm not sure we're at a point yet where video games are stable enough to elicit their own unique form of criticism. There are some people within the gaming industry right now who - based on non-game-specific quotes I've read - would probably describe a series like Mass Effect (and many others) as a dead-end…

I cannot, for the life of me, imagine Shawn and Juliet actually having sex with each other.

Your cat didn't need convincing.

Well, no one on TV is bad at everything, maybe.

I am officially a hipster now, because I am enjoying a part of TSC ironically. Granted, it's only Thomas Dekker pretending he's sexually attracted to Britt Robertson, but still.

I'm not sure anyone can really love Community unless they see value in 1) examining humanity from a distance, and 2) through the filter of its "useless" obsessions, like movies and television. More than any other show, Community both encourages this in its audience and reflects it in its characters, and in so doing…

The Krogan and Mordin were the heart and soul of ME3; it was, hands down, the absolute pinnacle of the storytelling they sought to write/execute. Nothing else in the game drew me in like that, although the rest of the game certainly wasn't as bad as the last few minutes.

The AV Club comment boards give me hope that humanity's run will end in something other than a darker-timeline version of the movie Idiocracy.

I don't have much more to add to this conversation except: thermal clips again? Somebody please explain to me why they had to do that. They could've improved or modified ME1's system if they'd had serious concerns about difficulty (which is laughable considering you have 2 squadmates that never run out of basic ammo…

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Biggest 2 issues with the boosters packs are 1) you can keep getting character cards even past level 20 + all costume options, and 2) there are WAY too many guns that are either totally useless or virtually identical to others. I have so many useless shotguns, assault rifles and sniper rifles that I could build a fort…

In a different space-combat game, I would've appreciate a scathing dudebro critque/satire - but in the ME universe, I'm not even sure that that (far superior) approach would have worked.