I know a kid like Pete. He’s extraordinarily fickle, with a really short attention span, and about twice a month he gets bored and decides to get a new tattoo. He’s the kind of guy who will get a stupid tattoo if somebody he just met dares him, which is how he get a unibrow tattooed on his face.

Speed Racer is a terrific 45 minute movie sandwiched between 90 minutes of meh. The car designs are cool, the racing scenes are fantastic, Giacchino’s score is pretty awesome... but tonally, the movie is all over the place. Half of the cast knows the movie is a cartoon, and the other half is playing things way too…

I think oversaturation killed the see-through colorful game console trend. I remember Nintendo released the Funtastic N64s in 2000, and at the time they were really unique, and they really stood out. In less than two years I was already sick of that style. It feels like every third party gaming peripheral company…

For me, it’s the Xbox One. I got the Halo 5 themed model, and every time I looked at the thing, I was reminded of how disappointing that game was.

I work in marketing, and over the course of my career I’ve worked with tons of car dealerships, and I can’t remember ever walking out of a car dealership and thinking “Wow, that was a pleasant experience.”

Q: “Now look at this 007. To the untrained eye, it appears to be a typical leather briefcase, but it is in fact a highly effective, heat-seeking weapon.”

I did consider preordering a PS5 at launch, before discovering that the overwhelming majority of its launch lineup was also releasing on PS4. Same goes for Xbox Series X. Sure, the new hardware loads the games faster, and plays them at a higher framerate, but the old hardware still plays the games just fine.

3 Months Later

I’m still going to wait. If I learned anything from the eighth generation of consoles, it’s that within a year or two Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are all going to release upgraded versions of the Series X, PS5 and Switch. They’ll be smaller, have more storage, will be free of most of the bugs that plagued the launch…

I know a lot of people who used to work for Gamestop, and each and every one of them has described their time with the company as hellish.

As I was getting dressed this morning I thought “Oh, I’d better not wear a solid red or solid blue shirt this morning because I don’t want to get shot.”

It takes an enormous lack of self-awareness to repeatedly tease your opponent for “being afraid” and “staying in his basement” when you’re literally surrounding yourself with barbed wire fencing. I’m tired of being governed by morons.

• Uses copyrighted Pokémon character and Pokeball in merchandise

Ehhh, I’m pretty sure that guy’s working at Walter Reed right now.

Tesla fanboys: “Stop complaining! Elon’s out there saving the world and you’re sitting at your desk complaining about something as stupid as your roof falling off?! Boo hoo!”

Does anyone else remember that Gary Sinise movie “Mission to Mars”? Brian De Palma made it, it was bad, but anyway it came out twenty years ago and was meant to take place in the not-too-distant future. I remember seeing it in the theater on opening weekend, and in one scene the main character drives into frame in an…

I’m not gonna pass judgement until I see new Peter emote. The old face, while a little bug-eyed and “unrealistic” according to some people, was pretty damn emotive, especially during his more emotional scenes.

Over the last two days, I’ve read various reactions from Trump supporters, but the most common one is “So what if he didn’t pay much in taxes? Taxes suck, and if you’re doing it right, you shouldn’t be paying any. Trump has always argued that we shouldn’t be paying more in taxes.”

Wait, those designs are real? I saw them and thought I stumbled into one of those parodical Instagram accounts.

I’m kind of glad I couldn’t get a preorder for the PS5 or Series X. Both consoles have pretty anemic launch lineups, and apparently many of their big launch titles will also be available on previous generation consoles. At this point the only thing that might compel me to pay $500 for a console right now is FOMO.…