Please tell me this gas turns you inside out.  

Going from sensitive to throat-puncher at an older age is also known in the biz as “pulling an Irish”.

It just seems... Unnecessary. The only two things they use to drag the One is that it had bad marketing at the beginning of the generation (which they course corrected on pretty damn fast), and because it maybe sounded like it struggles to play games that came out at the end of the life cycle, which always happens as…

You know what Cena has going for him that Dwayne Rock Johsnon doesn’t? He’s comfortable looking ridiculous and being the butt of the joke. Dwayne has that 80's Action Star ego hang-up where his character in any given movie now has to be the toughest guy, but also the smartest, but also the most charming but also a…

That is an extremely apt description of Cena’s performance (and got a genuine lol from me,) but that performance worked for me because that was how the character was written. Peacemaker’s role on the team is “blunt instrument” and Cena’s energy fit that very well.

Cena was incredible in Trainwreck. I know he was already huge at that point, but he clicked as an undeniable star in that movie in a way that that the Rock never did for me (other than his 5 minute cameo in the Other Guys)

“... eventual movie?”

no regular coverage

Unfortunately, no. There’s no one site that has everything the “old” aka “best” version of AVC had; great writers, variety of shows/movies, robust working comment system with an engaging community. Best you can do, as far I can tell, is piecemeal it. From what I’ve seen, Polygon and Vulture are decent, but both have…

Another vote for Polygon, specifically the entertainment section:

Yeah, I follow Polygon a bit. Some of their TV coverage irritates me though because they’ve spoiled a few things for me over the years through headlines or thumbnails with headlines.

Tasha is an editor at Polygon, which means not only does she write some of her own stuff, she has her own stable of freelancers, which used to include AVC’s own Roxana Hadadi (who now has a staff job at Vulture!) and still includes folks like Noel Murray and, less excitingly, me.

Sadly, not. Tasha Robinson is writing for Polygon, though, and I found myself visiting that site more and more often lately — especially for the non-gaming-related articles. (There are just a small part of the site, but the quality is often really good.)

If I had even the *slightest* interest in sports that might have been enough to persuade me.

Shit, if you got Tobias and Tasha Robinson and Dowd and Rife and maybe Rabin would pop in now and then? I might actually put money to that.

Tobias et al tried that with The Dissolve, which I think was funded by Pitchfork. It ran a year or so and tanked. Ad supported didn’t generate the right clicks. Bummer, too because they were doing really good work.

Only if they ban slideshows.

Shit’s weird, man. I have a lot more to say but I shouldn’t. 

As someone who’d never heard of the character before, his simply being a black-furred, intimidating Wookie who makes Chewie look like a cuddly teddy bear was plenty to make his presence pop.