I agree with this, but think it's largely a function of the lack of popular black performers in media on the whole.
Martin Lawrence (and, for a more modern example, Tyler Perry) can basically do whatever, and his audience will continue to come back because I mean, hey, how many other choices do they have? The media at…

I think Oliver seemed significantly more nervous throughout his entire first week than Noah did at any point last night. Oliver's performance in that first week was what I decided before the show started to compare Noah's performance to, and I think he passed with flying colors.

"As soon as I saw his relaxed smile in between the jokes, I was like 'ok, this is gonna work.'"
Yes, yes, and more yes. During his opening monologue, I saw that first wry smile and said to myself, "oh yeah, this guy is comfy already. He's going to kill it." And he largely did, on his very first run.
I was impressed!

Whether they hit or not, I liked his "gaspy" (or what the review above termed "hacky") jokes. I laughed at the AIDS/aides joke, but even though I didn't find the Whitney joke particularly funny, I liked it for the same reason I like the fact that he was hired for the job in the first place: what it might represent…

It's like taking Ingmar Bergman's slowest film, removing all the dialogue, cinematography, and direction, and then just saying, "BOOM, art!"
So many of today's "art" games are basically what I'd expect to find if there was a CD released every year named, "Now That's What I Call ART #X"

No no, that's way too much work. Break all the major joints and stuff the body into a suitcase. Then do with it what you will.
Are you one of those terrible people who doesn't watch The Americans?!?

Lifehack: stay alive to increase your longevity

The Stanley Parable was absolute brilliance.
I agree with your sentiment overall: these days, it seems like you can do the most boring and/or rudimentary thing and, as long as it's "different" in some way or done on a small budget (or perhaps does little to nothing at all, thus "challenging conventions"), you'll have…

I can't believe Bioshock never received a sequel worthy of the original. God damn, that game was just amazing in every way. When I first played it, it felt like an absolute revelation.

Ah, you're right. These days, the options menu is basically what a manual was back when we were still dealing mostly with physical media. Good point.
Usually, the first thing I do in a game is look at the controller/keyboard and mouse mapping, so I guess it is basically the same thing.
However, your comment did give…

I'd say that's less wish fulfillment and more pragmatism.

Unfortunately, games don't generally come with manuals anymore.
Or discs. Or sweet boxes with embossed shit and shiny shit and and other shit.
What, have you been a monk for the last ten years or something?!?
(manuals and all the other stuff are things I genuinely miss, though, as is browsing through the "Computer…

Fine print: "when the Ron Paul Foundation for Prosperity and America says, 'win-win,' we mean it's a win for both Ron Paul and the other investors in this foundation. According to this contract, you are a third party, and we make no claims of this being a 'win' on your behalf."

There are actually commercials on TV for this crap as well. The commercials don't tell you what, exactly, Ron Paul's "important message" is, but it tells you that he definitely has one, and you definitely need to go to his website to hear it.
Because it's really super duper totally important, whatever that message is.…

I've always figured that, at least in the first few years after complete economic collapse, people will try to grasp at some semblance of what they previously experienced for their entire lives and almost all of civilization: a system of some sort of "currency," in addition to direct trade of goods.
In that sense (and…

I think this game played an ingenious trick on poor Teti.
It convinced him it was just a poorly made game, and then revealed it was just a big joke the entire time.
I mean, come on. That screenshot is the GREATEST KILL SCREEN IN HISTORY, particularly considering everything that came before it.
(including me. ((I'm…

I had this page loaded, saw this thread and Klint's initial comment saying he/she hadn't played it yet, and then I noticed your comment asking if they really edited that out.

*fake twelve year old girl voice* "Hey, I made some holy water! It's in the pitcher on the counter; pour yourself a glass while I go put on my bikini! And try the brownies, they're soooo good and have been transubstantiated into the body of Christ!"

Hey, come on, he was in Lions for Lambs, and he still couldn't break out! That movie was a triumph of exceptional dullness!

Neveldine and Taylor are just like Hall and Oates: they're nothing without each other, but together they make gre….tolerable stuff