You actually have to kill a significant number of people (I think it's something like 25-30% of all potential targets) to increase your chaos rating, so just knocking off a few people to get out of a tight spot shouldn't make a difference.

Same here. I had some trouble with archery at first due to my preferred controller configuration*, but eventually I got tired of whacking things with my ax, so I gave it another shot. Once I had experienced the joy of nailing an enemy from sixty feet before it even knew I was there, there was no going back.

I think I like DA2 more for what it could have been that what it actually is. I appreciate what Bioware was trying to do, and I wonder how it would have turned out if it hadn't been so rushed. I also wish it had done more with the unreliable narrator concept. I wanted more wait-that's-not-how-it-really-happened…

I did, and I loved it. I actually found the stealth approach more satisfying than leaving piles of corpses in my wake. Even when I decided to do a high-chaos playthrough, I preferred to quietly shoot people in the head with my crossbow instead of making a scene with grenades or bullets. Of course, if I really needed a…

The Thief reboot. Even if one doesn't compare it to the original series (which I didn't because I've never played it), it's not a good game by any stretch of the imagination. And yet…I enjoyed it. Probably because it satisfied my inner magpie so well ("Shiny—yoink! Shiny—yoink! Shiny—yoink!").

"Chasing Cars" is not just dull, but aggressively dull so that you can't tune it out. Listening to it is like being hit over the head with a two-by-four of blandness.

Not just the age difference but the fact that Audrey is so childlike during the first half of the series. I never bought the idea of a guy like Cooper lusting after any girl half his age*, let alone one who acts like she's about twelve years old most of the time.

Off the top of my head: Lisa's Sax, The Cartridge Family, the Joy of Sect, Natural Born Kissers (season 9), The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace, Bart the Mother (one of my favorite post-classic episodes) Mom and Pop Art (10), Homer Simpson in: Kidney Trouble, Lisa Gets an A, Hungry Hungry Homer, Wild Barts Cant Be Broken…

Probably because reading it makes them look smart, That's why I liked it as a teenager.

@ShrikeTheAvatar:disqus Is there? One letter is written entirely in code, but I never saw or heard of any in the other letters.
I've heard people say House of Leaves messed them up, but it didn't have that effect on me (probably because I was messed up to begin with). It did, however, depress the everloving fuck out of…

Aquadementia!

"Doctor, there's a woman in the wallpaper!"

When the first game was made, Squaresoft was about to go under and they thought the next game they released would be their last, so they called it Final Fantasy. Also, that joke hasn't been funny for about twenty years.

There are several good episodes and many decent ones after "The Principal and the Pauper", but season 9 is where the quality takes a very noticeable downward turn. I still watch seasons 10 and 11 occasionally, but yeah, "Behind the Laughter" is probably a good stopping point.

@avclub-4caf6aa0375b2499ebfe7e971b36eee3:disqus And the ridiculous teeth. Can't forget the teeth.

"Sorry, Bobby, it looks like we're going to have to MURDER someone to get your mother's attention!"

…I JUST got that.

Good lord Hank, you look like that fella killed the other fella!

I'm more familiar with sinners than saints, my dear. And sinners always look good./pedant

High frame rate, IIRC.