Bugles, both Original, Peanut Butter Chocolate and hell, Caramel are great, too.

People forget that Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic actually started off as an ambitious sequel to Super Mario Bros., was stripped of Mario elements which were later added back, and that the game was eventually released as a Mario game even in Japan. So the constant smack-down of anybody who refers to SMB2 is mostly…

Comfortably dumb.

I have several recordings of Beethoven symphonies recorded by the Berlin Philharmoniker under the direction of Herbert von Karajan, which I have conflicted feelings about. They were recorded in the sixties and seventies, but it is well known that Karajan took advantage of the political situation in Nazi Germany to…

When I was in school, we did (I'm 40.). In fact, learning even the official version of American History was pretty guilt inducing. Which is fine. Few countries have a clear conscience, but if we ignore the horrors committed in our names, we have no conscience at all.

Congratulations to Ecce Hobo who would have been 'hearted' upon my becoming aware of his name, because c'mon... Ecce Hobo, but whose trenchant comment reached the kill screen of my personal, beating, bleeding heart. If you haven't, take a gander at the unedited comment.

I don't have any Hemophiliac or Moonchild Trio, but I do have (in addition to the FNM and Bungle albums) some John Zorn stuff with Patton, and I do own two Tomahawk albums, 4 or 5 Fantomas albums (including the live one with The Melvins), the Dillinger Escape Plan EP, and the Peeping Tom, Lovage and General Patton…

I'm guessing that some people declined to listen to the track (I often don't play you tube videos that involve music unless I'm able to listen on headphones. Without listening to the track, it's hard to read the sarcasm. I thought the tone of the article was hyperbolic, but not necessarily insincere, until I clicked…

Agreed. And not from Epic, either. See also: Bungle, Mr.

I would play the ever-loving shit out of a Buddy Holly track pack. I love Roy Orbison, but I could never sing one of his ballads (due to degree of difficulty). This particular song is from the period between 50's rock and roll and the rise of psychedelia, but I think there's room for 'Run to the Hills' and 'Runaway'…

This was the first I'd heard of PAA:OTR-SPOD:E3, too. I clicked the link back to the original article, and seeing Crecente's by-line gave me the feeling of running into an old girlfriend.

This is absolutely budget driven, but it seems like the perfect compromise. Breath of Death VII was awesome, I haven't played the Cthulu game yet but just the fact that they made a game about Cthulu earns Zeboyd tons of geek cred. Penny Arcade working with Zeboyd adds to their enormous horde of existing PA indie/geek…

Thanks, Kobun, you're a treasure... I regret that I only have one heart to give you. Do you have a blog?

*Fires up Windows on a Mac, cracks knuckles* Let's do this!

Is there some huge overlap between Cronenberg fans and Team Edward? I want to see this, but not because of Pattinson. I would think DeLillo Cronenberg Cosmopolis would be more effective. Also, I'm a little scared I'm going to walk into a theater and see a one-sheet reading Franco Franco Child of God...

I'd say if you cleared up the political influence problem, copyright and patent reform would be much, much easier, so I would go with that.

Why don't all PS3 games do this? I've had a 360 most of this generation, and I can't think of a game the default is to allow up to four players to log in, with achievements. I seriously thought it was me doing something wrong when I first got our PS3. My kids still don't like to play PS3 multiplayer, since their…

I can see how Soderbergh's Solaris could be considered a failure as a remake or an adaptation, but unlike most of the films mentioned, I think it's pretty great anyway, a bleak romantic tragedy about memory and the possibility of bridging the impossible chasm between one person and every other person. I have…

Well... the Android Marketplace requires you to have an Android device registered, an it doesn't recognize the Fire as such, probably by Amazon's design. When I bought my Fire, this wasn't a big deal, as you could download the .apk from a file hosting service and 'sideload' it onto the Fire. And then the Justice…

Unfortunately, Pinball Arcade isn't in the Kindle Fire store or I'd likely be playing Medieval Madness while my son plays ME3 *sadface*. Oh, well... Zen Arcade on 3DS it is, then. Interesting that there's no PHoF branding on Pinball Arcade; I wonder if this could lead, down the road, to original tables from…