You know, why not have Will Ferrell host actual Celebrity Jeopardy?

I haven’t seen either film, but the final lines of the novel always hit me hard for some reason: “I did not know what achievements, what mockery, even what tortures still awaited me. I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.”

Mad Max was definitely one of my favorite sleeper hits of the last decade. I wish it got more love when it came out.

When my workplace got a new president, instead of deciding to tackle any of the long-festering systemic issues that employees have been bringing up for years, he decided what we actually needed was complimentary cereal in our break rooms.

Definitely true for me. I turned to a weekly grocery delivery service that specializes in produce near the beginning of the pandemic. I finally upgraded from that cheap dull knife that’s been following me since my college apartment to a pretty decent knife because I sort of knew I considered chopping vegetables to be…

I’m a complete sucker for the subgenre I flippantly refer to as “Bad Dad Simulators” (The “bad” frequently refers to having to constantly choose between terrible decisions, not the actual quality of the dad). You basically had to exclude Lee Everett because he’s such a good answer. Playing as him is probably the most…

I initially read that the RV played a recording stating that it was a bomb, it would detonate in 15 minutes, and everyone should evacuate the area.

I’m going to take what’s apparently the even-less-popular opinion and go with Pyre, which was one of my favorite games that was new to me in 2020. I really loved the characters and story, and I oddly enjoyed the loop of story and gameplay. None of the stop/start of Transistor.

I’m one of the only people who didn’t outright hate Andromeda. It’s flawed as hell, but I saw what they were trying to do, so I considered it a very clunky start to a new thing. With video games, I’m optimistic about sequels. They have a far better track record for learning from their mistakes. A lot of beloved…

I watched Batman Returns last night, and The Penguin’s similarity to Trump is kind of scary.

That phone call sounds too hauntingly plausible.

My perhaps overly-cynical theory is that Biden makes a deal with Donald: your legal troubles go away so long as you don’t incite your followers into a second Civil War. The democrats we deserve, not the ones we need.

I would have thought he’d run off to Mar-a-Lago and never come back once the writing was on the wall. Maybe fire off the occasional half-hearted “I WON” tweet between holes while secretly feeling relief.

I see we’ve reached the “corporations have given up on marketing and now just disappoint children for our entertainment” portion of 2020. This generation is going to be absolutely brutal to us when they grow up, making boomer/millennial resentment look like good-natured ribbing.

You’re absolutely right in the sense that I’ve been buying season passes for games for a long time, so despite my griping, the model is working on me. I can even admit that the “games as a service” model works great for AAA multiplayer experiences, but those games simply aren’t my cup of tea. I tend to skew towards…

Exactly. And I think they’re massively overvaluing the impact of keeping a game front-of-mind. I’m an incorrigible completionist, which is why I skipped Odyssey, but I did slog my way through Origins. It turned into a complete chore, and if you asked me through most of 2018, “what are you playing?” I would have let…

I wouldn’t bat an eye if it were some C-lister (can’t even think of one to name that wouldn’t piss someone off who thinks they’re at least B+ material), but Spider-Man seems like a pretty weird entry to be an optional part of an Avengers game, period.

I circumvented that by using my time-tested strategy I call “not having a wife.” Yes, that’s totally intentional. It certainly isn’t a persistent regret of mine that I lack intimacy and companionship in my life. It’s all part of the plan. Yes. The plan.

The company I work for focuses most of its charitable efforts on childhood hunger, partnering with non-profits in the US and India to provide free school lunches. For every sale we make, we donate the amount of money it takes to feed a child a meal. (Yes, I’d prefer we didn’t tie it directly to our sales, but that’s…

Far Cry is getting more verticality. Assassin’s Creed keeps getting flatter. It’ll all be the same game, sooner or later.