I could show my superiority by wearing my Grado RS1s around but open-back headphones are like carrying around a boom box. I don't want to be THAT guy, just that guy.

Yes! I have an Audioquest Dragonfly I hook up to my iPhone and it makes a huge difference even to casual listeners

I'm still waiting for the option in Romance of the Three Kingdoms where you can play as Tso and placate the enemy armies with gifts of delicious calorie laden chicken. Come on Dong Zhou, you know you want some Crab Rangoon with that.

I watched that movie a month or two ago and it still holds up as perfectly capturing the awkwardness of adolescence. Charlie Sheen is surprisingly good as the guy who is always winning, but in this case it weighs on him heavily as he realizes that also means the good guys sometimes lose.

I have 3 machines, each my favorite from distinct eras. Black Hole from the early solid-state, Twilight Zone from the toy-crazy 90s, and the 2013 Star Trek from the new renaissance. Each has their charms and their own unique levels of play.

Yeah, I own the new Star Trek one which has only gotten better and better as the software has improved. It's ridiculously hard though. I usually will play 9 ball games just so I can get a chance to play a few of the advanced modes.

It's actually a specially made ceramic. I have a few glow in the dark ones I'll put in my other machines when I want ridiculous challenge.

I just got all 6 Famicom Rockman games off eBay. Not any significant differences from the Mega Man NES games but it's fun to have the multicolored cartridges.
I've been playing through them and it's interesting how my opinions have changed since playing them in the 80s and 90s. I used to really love 3 when it was…

1996 was the year I was 16-17, so pretty much my favorite year of life as I was in that wonderful time of reaching maturity without the responsibility or worry of adulthood. Raise the Pressure by Electronic came out that summer and while I'd never rate it as a classic album, its breezy aural Prozac perfectly…

I bought a Vive this week. My God is it awesome. The Lab is just so much fun; there's an angry birds style game where you are in a vast Aperture Science warehouse launching personality cores at stacks of boxes and exploding barrels. Some of the cores are voiced by Justin Roiland.

I've played nearly every Disgaea game but I've always lost interest before making it to the end. I love SRPGs but in Disgaea the only strategy seems to be "make numbers get bigger".

What kind of weird porn are you watching where mouths are shut?

Fellatio Cockblower, actually.

Ok, so you're a supposedly super-intelligent life form which is able to communicate in English and you come to save a civilization whose only contact with an alien species was with the one who blew their planet to shit, and you're gonna lead off with "hovering ominously"? You can't be mad white orb thing, that's all…

The name of the band is Talking Heads

The second album was pretty stellar.

I never really thought about how many bands in that era were basically riffing off of the first four XTC albums. White Music and Black Sea especially sound about as "early 2000s" as you can get.

Maybe you should ask the Ramones about their secret to longevity.

"Via Jezebel"

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.