My wife said "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???" and ran out of the room.

I laughed through that commercial more than any other because who could POSSIBLY think that movie looks good after seeing that commercial? It got dumber and dumber as it went on - I guess teenagers are too young to remember The Matrix now?

No, the dude on the scooter just lives a boring, smooth-jazz kind of life, filled with sexy saxaphone saxograms and warm fireplaces. Not a heavy-metal, stripper titties and bullriding life like the truckbro. No envy, just bro-spect

What annoys me about the ad is that these are all paid actors responding to a prompt. You're not going to give social commentary while you're trying to land one of the most lucrative commercial gigs of the year. And surprise surprise- the actors that took the prompt as an opportunity for a political statement (and I'm…

It would be a lot less problematic if they weren't selling me life insurance. I appreciate it's hard to sell life insurance without straight out saying "YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN SOMEONE YOU LOVE WILL DIE. MAYBE TODAY'S THE DAY" but other companies seem to manage.

She was like 6 years old. Have you ever seen a 6 year old boy throw a ball? They suck at it. Total amateurs.

Maybe I'm not the cynic I think I am, but I think the Weight Watchers campaign has been almost incredibly earnest. The super bowl spot created an opening for some important conversations about the food industry today, especially the addictive nature of mass-produced snack foods. "If you're happy and you know it have a…

What's your sim racer of choice these days? I've heard good things about Assetto Corsa but haven't pulled the trigger yet. I haven't played a really great sim racer since GTR2

I played Far Cry 3 and enjoyed it a lot, until at one point I decided the guy had actually died and this was all just a moment-of-death hallucination because it was too "white savior fantasy" to be anything but a dream sequence. I kind of quit after that.

Wow, eerily parallel to my recent playthrough! I finished DA2 a few weeks ago and had the same feelings - I was a moment's thought away from siding with the Templars becuase every freaking mage in the DA universe seems to be an abomination of some kind. I sided with the mages and almost immediately regretted it.

Counterpoint: Sebastian felt completely tacked on to me, especially in cutscenes. I wished I had left him out because it broke immersion to watch dialogue between Hawke & Anders with both in frame, then cut away to a shot of Sebastian all by himself. It felt like a fanboy editing himself into a LOTR scene on youtube.

DA2 also came out ~ 12 months after DA:O so a lot of people felt it was rushed even before they saw the finished product.

I'm curious if Oculus and its ilk will have an effect on demand for realistic games. I expect early adopters will want a realistic virtual world to show to their friends (and to justify their purchase), and from that perspective the facial expressions are less important than the realism of the setting. To go out on a…

Did Carrie ever see video of Farah getting stabbed? Is Aayan's murder the only actual footage she's seen of Haqqani killing somebody with his own hands? That would go a ways to explaining it for me, as it's witnessing a brutal action vs. the abstract knowledge that he killed someone.

This was my most immediate problem with the episode, and the only justification I can think of is that the Pakistani military is trying to get out from under the thumb of the ISI, and is very quietly using back channels at the CIA to take out Haqqani.

I am waiting to see her cryface before I release my final judgement on that.

"Lockhart isn't a spy. He's not a trained agent. He didn't become Director of the CIA through merit"

Why the hell would Lockhart believe they'd let him go? He really thought UBL 2 was going to look the director of the CIA in the face and say "you are a man of honor, you may go unharmed"? There's no reason to believe the henchmen weren't going to unload those kalashnikovs into the vault as soon as the door opened.

My narrow reading of Tasneem is as Paki Carrie. She makes morally objectionable choices fighting her enemies, has little concern about the value of foreign lives, and, even more simply, is a badass hottie with authority and guts. If Carrie was born in Pakistan (and without all the crazy) she'd have ended up in…

Citadel wasn't released until ~8 months after the main game, and it's more of a going away present for series fans than an expansion to the core game. I'd finish your first playthrough, then load up a recent save to do Citadel. The tone is 180' away from the rest of the game