I did it. Though only on my second playthrough. It's gratifying if admittedly restrictive.

Re: Mitsuru, that seems entirely appropriate. She's something close to a perfect, genius, wealthy, hyper-talented princess. It would take a hell of a guy (or girl) to climb to the top of that particular mountain.

My girlfriend's just about through the first dungeon and I think you're right. Even Invigorate 1 would make a huge difference—early on there's no efficient way to restore SP and the player has few options for making smart choices. So when you're out of SP you should probably bug out or one bad battle will cripple or…

The game shows a certain insight into each character that's particularly sharp regarding the guy you mention. "He" is a mewling fetus/baby who's literally armored by an 8-bit videogame avatar that must be broken and re-broken to get to the pitiful, helpless being within.

Goddamn shame that the Dark Elves' ultimate weapon in combat was to turn key soldiers into … biggish, sort-of-scary generic monster guys. Talk about an opportunity missed. Have them turn into one of the Alphas from Edge of Tomorrow or something.

Makes sense. IM3 was, in many ways, a buddy cop movie and a lot of MCU nerds were lukewarm on it. So if me and all my friends were so-so on it, and we're all into comic book movies, then it stands to reason that the movie only did okay.

That's an interesting idea. I didn't catch that in this week's episode. Of course, they also put out the idea of some kind of feud between Elliot and Justin McElroy so I tend to assume that any rivalries or grudges are of the pro wrestling variety until I definitively hear otherwise.

It is the world's loosest 100 minutes these days, and considering it's a podcast that's really saying something. I still enjoy it, and them, but when 20-30% of their content is a sleepy and hungover Dan trying (and failing) to read basic English they would probably benefit from a sterner editor.

Eh, I didn't mind it. I think Hodgman brings a fun dynamic to the show and wouldn't mind seeing him back more often. The Peaches could use a little discipline now and then.

I appreciate how hard they try, but I have to admit I rolled my eyes there. It was like some listeners have created a feedback loop to find problems.

It would be sort of astonishing if you could rise to his rank and position in the Cardassian military without directly killing anyone. They seem like the sort of guys who'd have every graduating class kill off the bottom 10% pour encourager les autres.

He was pretty likeable, though. And for all that he could occasionally be selfish he also bails out both the Shaftoes and the Waterhouses more than a few times in four centuries. Hell, the 20th century descendants almost certainly wouldn't even exist to be inconvenienced by Root if not for his alchemical prowess in…

Tywin was an extremely capable Chief Executive in a land desperately in need of that very thing. He was almost certainly an evil person but he had an excellent reason for (nearly) everything he did.

My mother calls me Teddy. My name is John Edward Gammel.

Astrotrain was my favorite Transformer: the steam locomotive that was secretly a space shuttle that was secretly an evil robot. What's not to love?

And now I have not only been reminded that Becker's existed (the logo sprang to mind unbidden and immediately) but also that it was literally the only place I'd ever seen that sold milk jugs.

He would know. After all, he is Frajer.

Given that almost every Marvel movie has followed the same structure nearly note-perfectly, it's not a stretch to think that we can guess the beats of this one.

Him and Daredevil should team up to take on the menace that is Stilt Man, the Tall-ish Terror!

I enjoyed how they lampshaded that in Civil War—the fact that a woman is a teenager's aunt doesn't make her some Downton Abbey-style dowager.