I won’t lie, I found the overrall silliness of some of the dialogue - “I am going to take YOU for a RIDE!” - to be a pitch-perfect counterpoitn to the opressive atmosphere of the Baker Mansion. It was delightful to go from scared shitless to grinning like an idiot whenever Jack grabbed me from behind and then…

Did you ask them about all those shadow puzzles? Because seriously, even with that receipt, I still don’t buy that the mechanisms are still functioning with no maintenance after God knows how long.

I rarely touch my old consoles, thanks to fact that I am overly zealous with their care. A bit paranoid, but these old boys have been with me since I was a kid.

You’ve got excellent taste, Cecilia. I am a man and I sometimes want to grow my hair just so I can mimick Homura’s glorious hair flips. I didn’t really like the way her character was developed in the last movie, but her sheer awesomeness during the series proper more than makes up for it.

Megalia is truly a degenerate shithole, though - and I consider myself a feminist. Not that I think it should be banned - as the article suggests - but it is essentially a female-centric version of 4chan.

Cecilia, what is your favorite season/major arc in the Monogatari series? I used to think Bakemonogatari was my favorite, but have been seriously leaning towards Owarimonogatari lately.

Always male, always bearded. Guess I like my real life beard too much.

This is, unfortunately, very common on Gawker (Gizmodo) Media in general. Many people have their hearts in the right place, but they’ve been feeding from some bizarre soup of delusional paranoia that causes them to automatically conflate certain forms of disagreement with an attack on their dignity. Trying to be…

For Mike: do you intend to review any of the cool games that you’ve mentioned in several different posts, but never published full-fledged analyses for? I am talking about works like Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, Senran Kagura,: Estival Versus, Toren, and others. You are always the one mentioning these cool games, but…

I actually consider his wife to be much prettier than Nicole kidman.

The fact that Big Boss reamined eerily quiet (no pun intended) during these scenes only made the whole thing even more ridiculous.

Just one thing: you do realize that the #fuckonami hashtag was proposed by Jim Sterling BEFORE Konami chose to implode their console games division and forcefully eject Kojima, right? Even back then, it was already popular.

This story made me sad :(

Hm, yes, I can agree with your point if we both consider 2007 to be within “The Last Few Years”. That was when this essay was released:

I agree with you, which is why I would like to ask: why do you consider yourself a minority for admiring MGS2? While it certainly has a massive hatedom, I still haven’t seen any other game receive so much praise in academic circles. Sure, it is a pretty divisive work, to the point that you either believe it is a…

It is worth noting that this game was cracked long ago. In fact, its cracking was one of the major recent blows against Denuvo. That might have influenced their decision, as well, since it is a bit pointless to leave intrusive DRM on a title that is already available on torrent sites.

As someone who comes from a country with tight familial units that almost always include the grandparents, this sounds just wrong to me. Not judging you, mind; you said yourself that your daughter agrees with your decision. This is more of a comment on how culturals differences can be rather jarring sometimes.

His best movie is by far 5 centimeters per second. Give it a try; you won’t regret it.

As a massive Machado de Assis fan, Ygor’s game pleases me greatly.

When talking about gender-neutral anime, I was referring to stuff like Kino’s Journey, Boogiepop Phantom, Haibane Renmei, Serial Experiments Lain, Casshern Sins, Mononoke... stuff like that. I would hardly classify the shows you mentioned as the “cream and the crop” of the medium.