Also it felt like him trying to extend something he didn’t create into a nerd pandering. The whole thing felt gross.

Turns out it’s man.

The good news is the way the expanding goofiness was carried on in Season 4 (to disastrous results) and Harmon grounded the show (somewhat) upon his return.

It is glory and fury, tension and power. It’s the entire reason I like Splatoon 2.

That’s funny, I keep looking at my sword hoping it’s the right one and never considered it was auto-selecting.

But I feel like I’m fumbling around with everything! There’s herbs and oils and potions and mutagens, two swords, a crossbow, bombs, a card game, two dozen marker types on my map, and a million other things going on!

I saw this in theatres and was so upset when it ended that I had watched what I felt was the dumbest movie I’d ever seen. Even today it adorns the personal Hall of Awful in my mind (it’s up there with This Is The End, another movie I hate hate hate and people seem to like).

Sleeping Baby is truly a gift. It’s all over the map there for a while. I’ll tell my son it’s your fault we kept getting Mt. Wario; he is not a fan.

I have a longstanding belief that this first true 3D exploration generation was visual garbage, but I have to admit that it really depends on what the game is going for. These platformer remasters show more imagination and scope is possible, but a game like Silent Hill was at its very best on the PlayStation, with…

Levelling like that in FFXI is no small feat. I played for something like a year and broke 40, my wife played more than I did and got to... 50s or so? 75 is something. Those stupid missions to LET you level up more.

more Witcher III for sure. I’m still in the first region, though story-wise I’m ready to move on past that. But I think I’ll spend more time in the area, tackling sidequests and generally getting a feel for it. The movement is a bit less fluid than I would have liked, and sometimes “Examine” is a bit finicky, but…

I actually hadn’t heard the entire episode until later in the day, when they talked about it as stage comedy, and I felt A) a bit embarrassed and B) intrigued. Josh Malina’s talk about how he played Jeremy Goodwin in front of an audience as opposed to later was very interesting and allowed me to appreciate it more.

What strikes me as interesting is how much you realize it’s a performance that plays to an audience, real or imagined. They ham it up, they pause dramatically, they kill a second or two for an especially good punch line to be absorbed and enjoyed.

I only caught Decoder Ring because it guested on 99% Invisible, but Sports Night, Tommy Schlamme, godsdamned laugh tracks... I’m all in.

A little late but as promised:

There is no voice chat I operate in, though I know DL has set up a Discord that has been used in the past.

Easy for Life.

I have played a few hours of the first Borderlands. it was a shooter with a distinct visual aesthetic.

After reading “Blood, Sweat, and Pixels”, I am most excited about the quests. They better not disappoint after all this talk about how demanding the process was for quests being approved.

Steve Buscemi single-handedly added like every joke in the movie.