I much preferred the original moon, where it was basically a regular sphere, and the only thing noticeable jutting off of it is the nose, which is basically just a really big mountain at that point. It was still recognizably the moon, both in colouration and all of the visible craters. Even when you were looking at it…

Fair points about the dwarf makeup and costumes, but I still don't find them quite as visually impressive as the work done on the orcs in the LotR trilogy. And yes, when I say "phone it in", I more so mean "the people at the top end of management phoning in any attempt that they care and demanding that it be stretched…

I think they just gave Interstellar every possible technical nominations without really thinking about it, because yeah, the sound mix was pretty bad at times and plenty of dialogue is just inaudible.

What costumes and makeup? The LotR movies got those Oscar nods pretty much on the back of the work done on the Uruk-Hai, not for throwing some pointy ears on Orlando Bloom. The vast majority of orcs and other creatures in The Hobbit movies are CG and half the movie is shot on a sound stage because why shoot on…

Don't worry, they're going to introduce a new "55+ Classification" soon. They know the shit in Hotline Miami 2 is so fucked up that only retirees have enough free time to deal with it.

Wow, that's insane. I think by default a 3-day cycle is something like 90 minutes, or if you use the Song of Time to slow down the passage of time, the cycle ends up being like 180 minutes (enough to do a dungeon and a couple other things, generally). The idea that you couldn't just pop over to an owl statue to…

...that almost nobody bought the Circle Pad Pro, so Nintendo isn't likely to put functionality for it in future games now that they're releasing the New 3DS.

That video was tremendously entertaining. Gotta love Rami.

Hey Patrick, didn't you mention you were writing this story months ago on Bombin' the A.M.? I remember you mentioning the topic once or twice and I think the last time you did it sounded like it would go up like a week later, then I don't think I ever saw it on Giant Bomb. Did it make more sense to just save the piece…

The lispiness I can get over, but he's speaking so quickly that his words are running into each other.

I cannot like this comment hard enough.

Haha, yeah, I was super impressed by the detail she put into the fox mouth. I don't think she's ever talked about having a dog at home, so I'm guessing she looked at a solid amount of references.

Man, I forgot how much I missed the art of the Alpha games.

Nah, back in 2011 Gabe's art was still good. As much as they're joking about Gabe not going to the dentist, his teeth look normal in that strip.

Too late. It's like they're staring into my soul!

Wait, so Interstellar just didn't make the cut for the list?

Yep. But Dave Lang's picture from last year is impossible to beat.

Don't sweat it, Nintendo is convinced people care about the Kid Icarus series, despite the fact that nobody fondly remembered the NES and Game Boy game, but then a bunch of 12-year-olds flipped their shit over how "cool" Pit was in Brawl.

Yep, Pikachu angrily arguing in favour of his pantheon was the highlight of this week's comics for me.

I mean, I guess every game is winnable if your opponent just gets horrendous draws, and you get the best card draws possible for the situation.