No. After years of disappointment, Weezer has largely fallen off my radar. I’d happily give it a shot though. They were a band I really loved and their early music was there for a lot of good times and bad times growing up.

What more do you want from Weezer at this point?

I thought that combined with the mask falling off in the aftermath just injected the whole episode with an air of realism. When Gretchen goes into the bathroom while Jimmy sleeps, takes a handful of pills, and smiles that forced smile that fades to an expression of...loss? Horror? Despair? That was just about as heart…

I think Tony is a very human and relatable character. I found his prickly nature a pretty understandable response to who he was and yet found a very human and compassionate undercurrent has been a constant element that Robert Downey Jr. brought to the character.

That said, I agree with you on Pepper and found she…

I did not realize season 4 of Catastrophe was back, much less that it was going to be the last season! Somehow I totally missed that (I stopped checking in on updates because last I checked it was going to be a while). Thanks for the unexpected reminder.

This is insane, because it shows the song is not (and is not perceived to be by its creator(s) in even the slightest way) just a song, but a tool of power, control, and public relations that only serves the need of controlling the public narrative around a gossip topic. 

I think her actions are understandable given years of domestic abuse and rape. Defendable? Not in the sense that it’s o.k. and no big deal. But definitely sympathetic all things considered and, yes, defensible. It is not a stretch to say she was probably not thinking logically and rationally about it, and John was…

Thanks! And I’ve gotten notifications of responses years after posting.

Anyway, thanks again for the reply. I’ll check them out on PSN.

Sounds a bit like fans who says Star Wars is ultimately about the Skywalkers, and fans who think it should move beyond that.

I don’t agree with your disagreement.

The time travel element and the Connors were interesting facets. But they have long since milked that dry. The post-apocalyptic setting with sentient (and evolving) robots is a great palette for storytelling. This may be a weird comparison, but the Trunks sagas in Dragon Ball Z and…

It shares company with Deadwood and Terriers.

Thanks for posting these. I’d never heard of Mgla, but on the initial listen-through they’re really, really good!

Yeah, I suspect you might be right. I do like some of the talent involved in the movie, and the trailer is ambiguous about who or what Chucky is. But that lack of any origin or any sense of the doll’s personality, along with the scanning light, gives me a similar “robotic technology gone wrong” either along the lines…

Yeah, I’m going to go out on a limb say that was maybe a little too far over the top.

I really enjoyed Wes Craven’s A New Nightmare. I bring that up because it was more grounded (relatively speaking) and they toned the comedy and shtick down quite a bit.

Really, I think it’s less about the jokes as much as personality.…

The laser light looked like one of those scan guns you use in retail to scan inventory, or at a register. It seemed almost more like that; not a weaponized laser but more like it was a robotic doll that was scanning the child for information.

And yes, I think there has to be a bit of a balance. I’m not sure it has to…

This may be the worst take I’ve ever seen.

Ah. I may have been misquoting a music teacher from >20 years ago or thinking of a different anti-semitic composer and misattributed it to Wagner. But yes, my history was off here.

I think it’s fine to like Deafheaven. They’re more of a weird Shoegaze/Blackmetal/Pop amalgamation, but they also have the advantage of being really, really good. I don’t know the other two (I’ve heard of them, but I am still fairly novice in the Black Metal scene).

I still like straight-up Black Metal, although some…

Thanks for the suggestion, that sounds pretty fun! I’m a fan of knowing the whole story, and playing those on the Wii as lightgun shooters sounds like a lot of fun too! I’ll definitely add that to the list.

Having never played the original Resident Evil games (I was more of a Silent Hill fan and somehow never got into Resident Evil until RE:4), is there a best starting point? I have a PS4, FWIW. Is there an optimal version of RE:1 to look out for available on the PS4? For that matter, should I start with RE:1 before…