Yeah, that writing is remarkably lovely. It reminds me of the bit (I think it was Brian Regan) about the differences between letters from soldiers in the Civil War ("My Dearest Martha, The battles rage into their third day and I fear that I shall never see your lovely face again…") and letters from soldiers in Iraq…

One important way in which they are different is that Kim Jong-Un has a lot less respect for China than his father did, which is kind of a big deal in terms of international relations (as we're seeing now).

Nah, he's sundowning. Maybe once he had a grasp on what was happening in his day to day life, but not anymore.

Unfortunately, the only guy who knew the recipe fell into the chicken nugget machine a few years back. As a result, we can no longer produce the sauce, but at least profit margins on the nuggets were up for a quarter. Always a team player, that guy.

Settle down Holden Caulfield, it's just a joke.

"It's A Wonderful Life- Killing Spree Ending"

And then you can get Roddy's kilt to wear! It's the best game ever.

Yeah, you're telling me that this nameless drifter who can barely hold down an under-the-table construction job might have poor impulse control? THAT DOESN'T ADD UP AT ALL

I seriously cannot get enough of these stories. They make the three times my hippy roommate exploded jars of kombucha in our shared refrigerator almost seem quaint.

That's the mainstream liberal media for ya! All it takes is dozens and dozens of allegations of sexual and racial harassment stretching back decades and eventually they'll maybe get around to firing you, maybe! What a buncha SJW cucks!

The article itself is actually pretty fascinating, especially seeing the repetition of images and viewpoints set against each other, but I don't really think there's a conflict between it and your supposition. Melania could well be uneducated or not particularly bright (I don't know, obviously, but it's certainly…

[The monkey's paw in Call Me Carlos' childhood closet lowers one finger. Suddenly all memory and knowledge of the television show Are You Afraid of the Dark vanishes from the Earth but also now Carlos is covered in live ants for some reason]

You come in here and you make a big noise about not putting beans in chili and then you concede to adding celery? Motherfucking celery?? What in the name of sweet innocent baby Jesus, what planet are you from and when can we expect the rest of your species to arrive and annihilate us good Earthpeople?

Oh I remember even as a kid Shadow Warrior made me kind of uncomfortable with it's, uh, well, racism, not to put too fine a point on it. I just looked up the voice actor for Lo Wang and I'll give you two guesses as to whether or not he was a white guy.

I don't think that's really a gameplay element, though, just a visual one. Duke finding a Duke Nukem game and quipping that he doesn't have time to play with himself is an inessential element of the game and could (but shouldn't, obviously) be removed from the game entirely without impacting the movement, control…

The only acceptable form of pornography is Reubens' Venus at the Mirror (1615).

Just wait til someone tells Raffi about the Butthole Surfers.

Games that intentionally set out to be funny games (apologies to Michael Haneke) seem to be extremely difficult to pull off, in my experience. For every Curse of Monkey Island, there's an Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. That said, I think there's an interesting tension between comedic gameplay elements and…

I haven't really played Ghosts n' Goblins, so I can't speak to it as much, but I do think Dark Souls is rarely intentionally "funny". I think it has a splash of black humor to leaven the dough, so to speak, but the real "comedy" comes from the players interacting with the game. Even the story of Solaire, which I think…

I actually can't stand the way the remaster looks. The original is maybe my favorite LucasArts adventure, and a big part of it is how gorgeous that old pixel art was. It was stylish, but the updated art just makes it look like a budget European adventure game from 2007.