I'm sure that terrible announcers are not uniquely an American thing, but wow…this country sure employs some rancid announcers! Good announcing seems to be more and more of a lost art, or something that many broadcasters never got right. What makes a good broadcaster anyway?

I guess I just missed a good chunk of her appeal, as I grew up only seeing her as some annoying older lady trying to sell the concept that celebrity gossip is the most important thing in the world. So in many ways, she was a large precursor to the parasitic paparazzi lifestyle that is ruining many, many lives these…

I really do wish we'd get over this notion of "shoddy, crude animation with equally or more crude humor" for "adult animation". Seriously, that screen capture up there looks like junk.

I always liked it when Pardo was clearly reading a line for the first time, as he would then absolutely butcher someone's name.

I liked his WTF interview for being completely honest and full of humor about his current mortality, while also realizing he might as take advantage of the fact that he can make money just "advising" shows. (He mentions in the episode that he just gets paid for the Simpsons co-creator credit and doesn't even have to…

I'm ignorant about the western side of the state, but there's actually some fairly decent Internet on the eastern side of South Dakota, especially if you live in or near the major cities. The regional company here recently doubled download rates for their basic (not limited) tier to 60/6 at roughly $50 a month. That's…

It's a Source Engine mod (Half-Life 2 and beyond's engine) that's essentially a giant sandbox for you to mess around with that series' physics. It's interesting, but NOT that interesting, so it's one of the main reasons why this survey is really borked.

I stay out of FF list wars for a reason, but it just gets tiresome to hear those two games in particular get praised and praised and praised when both have serious, serious problems. But that's why most people stay out of fanbase wars, I suppose.

Nope.

I seem to be a minority on the Internet, but the Tomb Raider reboot really wasn't that great. Bad QTEs that involve pointlessly gruesome death scenes, sub-Uncharted level combat, dull traversal and poor characters and writing. It was just another big-budget blandfest as opposed to the interesting traversal challenges…

Sorry, but while it is tiresome to see these type of films over and over again, I honestly feel like it's needed to maybe slowly drum it through people's minds that something needs to be done here. And it's not simply "lower all the taxes and just learn to make with."

The episode The Flop House did on "Last Ounce of Courage" just made me genuinely angry. Not at the Original Peaches, because they were good, but just the fact that there are still really delusional, awful people out there who still believe that everyone is out to get them. A whole sect of people need to grow up before…

I'm so glad stuff like this can go unchallenged by the general media. No, wait I'm not.

If I may be a huge jerk for the moment…

That just isn't a realistic goal, no matter what people who crow about "hard-working folk who don't need no assistance" say. That type of saying is an increasingly offensive fallacy. Some people DO need help. Some people, mentally, can't handle the daily stresses of life. Some people just can't do manual labor jobs.…

Absolutely.

The "core" gamers need to be told over and over again that they don't matter. It's an increasingly shrinking demographic that has become increasingly expensive. You don't matter.

Godfrey Ho amuses me solely because he made a career out of randomly editing together unrelated movies to form…something of a plot. It's always a blast with his stuff to point out when you've suddenly crossed over to another movie. Sometimes in the same scene!

The U.S. has a disturbingly amount of "fuck you, got mine" attitude ingrained in the culture. And with that, no one cares about the rest of the world - and if they did hear about it, they probably heard about it from FOX News and how good this was. (Note: I did not watch FOX News to confirm this. Just assumed. Please…

I'm not sure about the PC gaming part though. The days of PC ports being irredeemably bad (except for dumb DRM managers, hello Uplay) is thankfully (mostly) past. (Though the information I just read about this game's port is a little troubling.)