I knew someone in college who could beat Contra without dying and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out blindfolded. It was a thing to behold. The guy was a total asshole and I still can't help but hold some begrudging respect for him.

Zelda 2 is one of those games I remember routinely crushing as a child but struggled with as an adult. This seems to be a common experience me and my friends have with returning to the NES games we played as kids.

That, to me, is one of the games where the insane difficulty keeps it from being very fun. I think Genesis BattleToads is the pinnacle of my tolerance for difficulty, though I never quite made it all the way through.

I couldn't beat most point and click adventures without some amount of GameFAQs help.

That depends on whether or not they're *puts on sunglasses* clever boys.

I really like her as an actress but her whole self-denigrating shtick where she talks about herself like she's a hideous ogre on social media is tiresome.

Ugh, I have prior commitments and can't make it to either of the theater broadcasts of this. Hopefully they sell it on VOD or as an extra on one of the DVDs.

Is that a new game on the popular podcast Douglas Enjoys Television?

I watched such an absurd amount of Wings re-runs on USA as a child. Shaloub was always my favorite part, especially the Halloween episode where he goes as "Twister."

Other TMNT imitators worth mentioning from my childhood - Samurai Pizza Cats, Biker Mice From Mars.

After several years of picking at it piece by piece, I am nearly done with We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live, which collects the vast majority of Joan Didion's non-fiction in a single volume. Only about 100 or so pages of Political Fictions separates me from the end.

I know you mean that as a ringing endorsement but I have trouble trusting the judgment of anyone so joyless as to not like Superbad.

If you insist -

Pretty much.

I don't think I've ever seen a news anchor with a septum piercing before. (For good reason. They look dumb like 95% of the time.)

I personally don't like seeing a live band when the singer can't remember most of the lyrics and appears to be on the verge of falling asleep. Fuck authenticity, that's disrespecting your fans.

I've never wanted to love a movie despite itself more than Super. There's some incredible work going on there but yeah, the epilogue is weird and some of the stuff with Ellen Page's character (particularly her insane, persistent attraction to Frank) just really took me out of the movie.

I wish I had stopped watching Love sometime around episode 7. An incredibly interesting and unpredictable take on relationships that takes a weird, inexplicable shift in characterization that makes pretty much everyone involved utterly unlikable.

I like that finale, but I couldn't help the feeling of "Yeah, but Six Feet Under did basically the same thing but with much better effect."

Now that AIM is gone, do people even use AFK? That strikes me as an equally weird addition.