"Distinguished" is a good word for it.

One of my absolute favorite pack-ins was for Mechwarrior II, a fucking incredible game that doesn't really get enough love anymore. It had a training manual, done in the style of a paperback handbook for a new recruit, full of all sorts of details about the world and the mechs. What really made it for me was the fake…

John Goodman actually looks better now than he did at the end of Rosanne, so maybe it will be nice!

Per the article: "Dan reappearing alive after faking his death"

There's a line in a Grant Morrison Batman comic where Batman notes that Robin dresses like a goddamn maniac in order to demonstrate "perfect self-confidence" in the face of danger. I feel like the same applies to Guy Fieri.

ok but heineken doesn't taste good tbh

I read an interview with Dennis Hopper where he talked about how Lynch had originally wanted Frank to be huffing helium, but Hopper (notorious drug-user as he was) suggested some other gas inhalant he felt would rev Frank's motor more and Lynch acquiesced to his request, and years later Hopper regretted the…

"Iron Eyes" Cody, an Italian guy who made quite a living pretending to be Native.

Yep, that's the crux of why it all falls apart, as Grant points out. If they were just cloning the dinosaurs, everything would have been more or less fine, but because they were genetically engineered, the dinosaurs developed the ability to spontaneously switch sexes if necessary. "Real" dinosaurs wouldn't have been…

As far as I recall, there was never any indication that Hammond was anything more than a Peter Thiel-esque venture capitalist in either the book or the movie. He was the vision guy.

Nobody cares!

You're approaching this as though it's a zero-sum game, where only one console is the "winner" and the other is a "loser". They aren't related in that way- the Wii was a giant hit and sold more than a hundred million consoles. That another console also experienced success doesn't make one or the other a "failure". If…

I'd say it's a retcon only in the sense that it's increasingly weird that we wouldn't have heard about this guy in the subsequent 3 films in the series. Otherwise, yeah, obviously Hammond didn't clone the first dinosaur in his basement by himself.

"SWEET JESUS!"

But the games the Wii did sell sold vastly more than any single game on either of those platforms. The other consoles sold more games in toto because they had more games available to buy- that's no big surprise. It also doesn't mean the Wii was a failure.

We are all trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.

I'm not sure where to locate that information, or if it's even available outside of internal Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony financial documentation. I also don't see why looking at the flat units moved number is "fucking weird". The Wii sold a fuckload of games, way more than the 360 or the PS3. You don't like that, but…

I even work for a company whose "mission" I actually do respect, and I'm happy with the work we do. Nevertheless, the company is the company- it's not my family, it's not my friend, it's a malignant outgrowth of the capitalist system. No matter how well-intentioned the goal, it's a for-profit enterprise, a meme in the…

I detest that kind of rhetoric as well, and it used to be quite easy to ignore when I was a contractor. At least I can understand the motivation of it coming from a boss or manager, but when a regular co-worker gets really into it as well it starts to feel kinda, well, cult-ish.

I'll have to check with the chef, sir.