Eh, I mean I think it can be assumed that some of the corporate heads of Nintendo are miserly old assholes, and while their actions and daft PR speak might be quite disappointing that doesn't change the value or enjoyment brought by great artists (and non- shitty people) like Shigeru Miyamoto.

He's learned so well from 80s action movies it brings a tear to my eye.

Yeah the Mass Effect games can be just as pandery and embarrassing as anything else, and the 'entire race of sexy blue space-chicks' bit probably tops the bill there.

A dick in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Once you make it (and you will!), I will absolutely direct my services to Noodly Appendage: Attorney at Law.

Their life is so sad they can't even Mary/Gary-stu right….

I drank a paint can full of non-beverage alcohol from Irkutsk. I'd give it a 7/10 for the price.

Be careful what you wish for. When the Oprah Bank comes to collect, well, you best be ready.

I feel as though I am beating the very deadest of horses here, but the mind still boggles at how a service that exists for the sole purpose of facilitating commenting can perform this poorly, with this regularity, in 2014.

And I thought I had a dilemma when my arm fell asleep under the other person.

Yeah, Season 1 is really pretty great and remarkably self-assured nearly right out of the gate.

Present Exhibit A: McInnes, Gavin.

This clip will never not be hilarious.

The serious business of later Godzilla.

Yeah, it's easy to forget given how goofy and loveable Godzilla becomes in later installments (I have an appropriate and all encapsulating gif here that will need linking on my lunch hour if I can find it) just how bleak and legitimately dramatic the original movie is.

I'd been wavering on whether to watch The Eagle based on my interest in Roman things but having had no strong impressions from seeing the trailer a while back, but sounds like an enjoyable and worthwhile watch so I'll have to check it out.

Yeah, particularly with the second season of S&W it's definitely refreshing to have a work with a medieval setting (in any medium) where fantasy action and/or warfare is not the primary focus.

A fairly light pop-culture weekend for me. On the movie side, I caught up with Kill Bill, another one of Tarantino's films that I'd never actually watched in full despite having absorbed most of its key moments via cultural osmosis. As anticipated, it was a stylish foray into absurd ultra-violence.

At the first high school party I attended it sort of felt like people were going through the motions of trying to make said cliches a reality.

I'm going to be boring and say that I went to mine, and actually had fun basically.