Pretty great for this feature. C-.

Marville was clearly aimed at Comic Book Guy types who would have understood all the references.

The spirit of the first level of Super Mario Bros. lives on, it's true, because most of those games are that single jump-and-stomp business, over and over, with various improvements down through the decades. Mario games are fun, because the people who make those games have been skilled, so far at least, since they…

Same minus The Martian. The book was awful and I'm dreading this movie.

In news less boring than The Martian, I read on the Internet today there was a cartoon TV show episode featuring the Silver Surfer that was called "Alienating with the Surfer". That would be clever if the company making the joke hadn't stolen the design from Jack Kirby and loaned it later for a piddling few thousand…

2002’s Beltway sniper attacks, a potent reminder that some of the deadliest and most remorseless terrorists come from within our borders

*pulls entire pair of prescription glasses out of nose and unfolds them and puts them on* Actually Derrick the silver switch in Super Mario World is the first appearance of pipes that spit out coins. That game came out in 1990, a year so laughably prior to 2015 that it's obvious to the untrained eye. I think you owe…

Miyamoto straight up explains that mustaches were just shorthand for "there's a nose here" in early video games, in this graphic, then later the same graphic wonders if another character he created counts as a lost proto-Mario because it has a mustache.

Good eye.

Based on what? I will assure you without reservation that most people who play Call of Duty, and most people who call you racial slurs on the Internet, have the same outer casing as any other white male nerd.

That only sounds funny in the same "the people making it don't realize why it's funny" sort of way.

That's not something most kids do with their time. I feel it would be a good time for an uncle to tell them, "that's lame."

No, I'm the stick.

That piece is egotistical and less than completely believable.

Comic book fans are even more sad. There's been the same evolution, but the difference is that comics aren't big money nowadays.

Psst, "special snowflake" is one of those phrases that make people look like they haven't left the house since Fight Club came out on VHS. Don't use it.

Tom Everlasting

These are the mash-ups that try men's souls.

They tell me I'm from the '90s, that I'm still around, and that my looks leave much to be desired… am I… am I a campaign Web site?

Ha, what?! Is that a real still from this show?! Are they ghost-busting Oscar the Grouch next?