It was no Mega Man or Castlevania, but as far as NES games go, Wizards and Warriors had a pretty iconically rawkkin’ 8-bit soundtrack, especially the intro theme. Just about everybody out there who does classic NES covers has covered it at one point or another.

I think it helps that it was one of those games that just…

The Muppet Show is an old-time vaudeville show with weekly guest stars, explosions, and penguins. It’s not a difficult formula to understand. But for some godawful reason, Disney and everybody else associated with the show’s multiple revivals since Henson’s death somehow fail to grasp this fairly simple concept.

Every…

Without question, Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man 3, and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

I’d agree that the original Super Mario Bros. is damn near perfect, and while it will always be a classic, I think Super Mario Bros 3. really took platforming to a new level. (ouch, sorry.) It blew the pants off any other…

Trump’s asshole buddies *literally* dress like Bond villains and have private island sex fortresses protected by their own personal security forces.

I mean, short of getting yourself a steel gauntlet and ominously stroking a Persian cat, I don’t know how much more obviously evil you can get.

Correction: As a FUCKING CORGI in a MECH SUIT!
Unless you can also hop out of the mech suit, and just be a regular Corgi, which would make this game even more awesome.

Correction: As a FUCKING CORGI in a MECH SUIT!
Unless you can also hop out of the mech suit, and just be a regular Corgi, which would make this game even more awesome.

You know, that massive fence that just went up around the White House is essentially one enormous perfectly-placed billboard. Just sayin’.

I dislike roughly 99% of anime, but I make an exception for Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloon and a few others that transcend the usual anime stereotypes. Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloon and Space Dandy are by far the easiest three series for westerners to get into, though Mushishi and Big O totally deserve to be on…

List definitely needs “Smoke Two Joints” (not the Sublime version, the original one by The Toyes.)

List definitely needs “Smoke Two Joints” (not the Sublime version, the original one by The Toyes.)

I’m assuming you clicked on the exact same front page link to get here that I did.

But yes. Nine years have passed, so this article is certainly outdated and no longer relevant to anyone who has lost a friend or family member.

No, wait... I tell a lie. Suicide rates within the US are at the highest they’ve been since…

I appreciate this being shared. Many people don’t leave a note, and rarely one so articulate. And covering up suicide as some shameful taboo subject that should never be discussed in polite conversation doesn’t do anyone any good. He wanted his story told, and you helped tell it. It may even help save the life of…

Mind you, where this gets really confusing is what happens when you ask a question in the past and receive an answer through the machine, and then the person in the future chooses not to transmit it, or is unable to because you already altered their present from the past?

Can you infinitely bootstrap yourself with one…

This appears to be pretty close to the form of time travel I predicted several years ago.

If we ever pull time travel off, it won’t be Terminator/Back to the Future/Doctor Who level fancy. It will be a short burst of photons arriving at their destination before they are sent. Likely, the light will be scattered and…

Read it (or anything else that Ryan North has written) and then you’ll understand. I too discovered Squirrel Girl because of GLA, but Ryan’s “unbeatable” version is so much more than the original one-joke character.

It’s geeky and hilarious, but never dumb. Squirrel Girl’s special powers are being kind and rational,…

Somewhat interesting tidbit. The TV show was based on a comic book from the 80's written by James Hudnall, which had practically nothing to do with the TV show other than the name and the concept of a virtual reality that can kill you in real life (and I suppose the basic premise of sending some guy in with the goal…

8 Bit nightmare is insanely hard for that part of the game, and well worth avoiding until after you’ve completed almost everything else.
Unfortunately, the first time I beat it, I ended up immediately wandering into the ‘Bad Ending’ boss fight, and lost everything after it reset me back to the previous save point.

After several nights of binge-playing until 2AM, I’ve had more or less the same reaction to Bloodstained.
SOTN is the single greatest, most replayable platformer ever, and Igarashi completely delivered on his promise to give us more of the same.

I consider it worth every penny just to have what is essentially a lightly…

The only game mechanic greater than a double-jump is the grappling hook.
Because why walk when you can Batman?

I’ve been playing the shit out of Bloodstained, and while the double-jump is great, Invert is the goddamn best!  

SOTN is my favorite game ever, so I’m okay with Bloodstain being mostly a “more of the same”…

If it wasn’t a noose that they just found hanging on campus, I might... might... be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say the photo was taken out of context and a very very poorly thought through joke about suicide rather than lynching.

My mother was a teacher, and a lot of them do have fairly…

This seems like the sort of movie that even people who like to draw pregnant Sonic sex pinups would take a hard pass on.