I have a feeling
that if I knew what Coldplay was I would hate it/them.

Trauma
Hey A.V. Club writers: If you're going to comment on pop culture for a living, you need to be aware that the world existed before 1980 (the year you were born perhaps?).

older than you think
"Wolfenstein was at the forefront of the first-person-shooter explosion…"

movies in the good old days
(picking up on what i++ wrote earlier) When I was a kid in the 1970's, there were no VCRs and no video rental stores; if you wanted to see a movie you had to wait for it to show up on TV (which the typical old movie might do once per year, and then it was a big event) or OCCASIONALLY you…

the city of Kitty Genovese
"John Hughes died today of a heart attack in New York City, while taking a morning walk."

And thank you Hem for having good taste! Neil Gaiman was the worst thing that ever happened to comics.

earlier brain-in-vat
"…as far as I know, the original brain-in-a-vat."