If karma is real, Donald Trump won’t die on the job. A blood vessel will burst somewhere in his brain due to stress, paralyzing him from the eyebrows down. Doctors will save him but declare him to be in a vegetative state that he will never recover from. A tv will be set up in his room, set to cable news, and he will…

Most people aren’t watching movies with the intent to analyze and deconstruct even their most obvious themes (and most creators would prefer it stay that way) which is why articles and videos that do will always have an audience.

Hey, remember the last time the food-producing part of the Union tried to secede? Went great.

Considering that From’s next game is supposedly scifi, you’ll likely get your wish.

Bell pepper, onion, and CELERY. The Trinity is holy for a reason.

I actually find my original SNES controllers have gone a bit mushy in their buttons. I know I could order some new rubber elements, but between that and the cost of the adapter the iBuffalo seems more than comparable.

Watch Mob Psycho 100. It does everything OPM does except better and had probably the strongest art direction of last year.

Impressive as Atlas is, I don’t know if I’d call it MORE agile than a human. Unless we’re defining agility far differently.

Almost everyone *liked* it. But I don’t know anyone who considers it a modern classic.

To be fair, the implicit reasoning behind the build is exactly to SEE if its a complete piece of shit and utter waste of time.

I thought it was great, if maybe a little slow to get started but that might have been my fault more than the movie. (I really shouldn’t go to the movies on 4 hours of sleep). But between seeing Rogue One and reading Tarkin, I now firmly believe that bad guy side stories are just fundamentally more interesting than…

You’re also forgetting that those other shows are western made and subscribe to fairly recent trends in cartoons in terms of continuity and per-season showrunning. Whereas Pokemon is still fundamentally a late 90's Japanese children’s anime specifically made to advertise a separate, preexisting product. That’s why it…

Origins was a 4 episode thing and this is just a 20th anniversary based special. I wouldn’t call either of them “reboots.”

I’m still catching up on Yuri (just saw ep 4), but its honestly one of the most refreshing shows I’ve seen in a good long while. So far, it’s a gay romance told with enough straight faced, good natured passion that I think it has more crossover potential than any shonen-ai show ever produced. It doesn’t hurt that the…

Unlocking fast travel between bonfires partway through DS1 always struck me as a genius level, seamless way to combine function and lore and development. You’re gaining power not just through leveling up and equipment upgrades but gameplay as your navigation through the world itself goes from frightened mortal tourist…

I’m surprised there hasn’t been a risk/reward fast travel equivalent in modern Elder Scrolls games. At least as an option a la hardcore survival modes. Sure you *can* fast travel, but the chance of getting waylaid might be higher than walking yourself. I believe Daggerfall had something like that.

We had a pizza chain in my neck of the woods, Mr Gatti’s. They had a head to head setup of Cruisin USA and later Cruisin World. The World theme song is burned into my brain to this day. I dunno what the N64 version was like, but pumping the gas pedal to nonsensically turn into a two wheel-ed tilt felt so goddamn good…

Cruisin’ is indeed some dumb shit but it’s the dumb shit I grew up on. As they ran down the list of “tricks” you can do, I can still feel the muscle memory and smell the cheap pizza and semi-toxic plastic prizes of the arcade room. My MUGEN setup still has the Cruisin’ World Stage/Car Select music as the fighter…

I actually find that most anime “styles” work better on the comic page than they do in animation. There are some adaptations and original anime that take advantage of the of the animation medium, but lots of shows tend to use their manga source material as a dogmatic storyboard and suffer for it as a result. One Punch…

It’s not the only advice you need, though. It’s a core tenet, to be sure, but without instruction or guidance you’re rolling the dice as to whether all the time you spend practicing is in fact GOOD practice. Practice that is focused on correcting bad habits and enriching your understanding of what the world looks like…