Mine had an AC adapter! Which I suppose made the whole portable-ness of it moot. But I have fond memories of playing Genesis games in the break room while waiting for my mom to be finished at work.

My first season (besides Season 1) was Nicaragua, and I still loved it enough to be hooked. This show is weird.

This reminds me of the plot point in Girls' second season, when Hanna argues with her roommate and kicks him out. For real poor twenty-somethings, if you don't like your roommate, you're stuck with him until the lease runs out. I'm not entirely aboard the Dunham-is-overprivileged train, but that scene really didn't…

On a similar note, I've always been bothered by the movies' pronunciation of "pensieve" as "pen-SEEV." I always thought it was pronounced "pen-SIVV" — as in, a pun on both "pensive" and "sieve."

Once Jenn said she might use her idol, I thought that it might have been smart for Jenn to go to Tyler/Carolyn and say "I have an idol—vote with the Blue Collars so they think you're on your side."

Are Jenn and Joe dating?

Oh shoot, I need to follow y'all. Problem is I usually can't watch live. Can we make a Twitter list of AVClub Survivor Tweeps?

My favorite moment of the episode:

This episode had me wondering a lot how the production team handles sound. The players don't appear to be wearing mics, but the sound is crystal clear. Anyone know? Maybe they're just using booms and both the camera operators and sound guys are very good at staying out of sight.

I'm a few years behind, but I've been reading Collision Low Crossers, an in-depth behind-the-scenes survey of an NFL season by a reporter who was embedded with the Jets in 2011. It's a good read for anyone who's curious about the human element of football, especially the toll it takes on players' and coaches' lives.

For what it's worth, CBS and Comedy Central are both Viacom networks. Colbert was actually being retained with the move to the Late Show.

The article a couple weeks ago inspired me to pick up Star Wars: KOTOR, which I haven't played in 10 years. I can't remember which alignment I chose last time, but I'm going Dark Side this time, which at first is a little boring ("Why did I just kill that guy for no reason?") but becomes much more compelling as the…

Damn, that's cold.

It feels like I stepped in gum
Got honey in my hair
My Dairy Queen is meltin'
And gettin' everywhere
Like a movie-theatre floor
(You hear every step)

My god.

Reed's speech was great, but wouldn't it have been just as cruel for him to simply say, "You're a goat, Missy"?

For sure! It's surprisingly complicated.

If there is a symbolic reading, I think it's more likely that all of these men represent the anxieties that Ottway needs to shed in order to die peacefully after his wife's death. That would still fit in with the fact that they all talk about women.

Yes, but isn't the movie [SPOILERS] about Neeson casting away his personal demons one by one so that he can die peacefully?

It's not really a survivalist slog — it's more of an existential peeling-apart of a man's soul. That sounds pretentious typing it out but the movie accomplishes it, trust me.