I enjoy them (though I think they entirely miss the campy point of the original Apes movies and forgo any cultural commentary beyond "maybe we should get along?"), but I'd say the direction is verrrrry functional and rigidly competent.

He's one of those creepy-ass emaciated children under Ebert's robe.

The moment I committed my previous comment to screen I realized I love indie games that skew towards the emotional, like Gone Home or Firewatch. But then, those are shorter and do a good job of emphasizing atmosphere.

"I have a very particular set of skills. They do not apply to this situation. Who do I make the check out to?"

I think it gets washed over in the tidal wave of dislike for late-90s Sincere Jim Carrey.

The Univeristy Channel? Your school had a weird name for Adult Swim.

Exactly! I get enough Grim Shit in the news. I just want to bounce around in Super Mario World for an hour or two, not face a game designer's take on moral complexity and Tricky Grey Areas.

During my 20s my gaming tastes matured. I could pour hours and hours into deep, daunting RPGs and gameplay challenges such as Dark Souls. Now I'm 30. I've got a job. A car payment. A fiancee. Actual friends.

Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest has a very grim description of a ship accelerating too quickly and essentially pureeing everyone inside.

As someone who shares your feelings on the McElroys, I might recommend just downloading the latest MBMBAM and listening until you don't like it, then repeat next week. There are episodes where their riff-em-to-shreds approach grates on me (a few weeks ago they spent nearly an entire episode pitching one another…

College me would've told you Waking Life got robbed.

"Transparent Cash Grab" would be a great ATDI song title if it didn't have more than one monosyllabic word in it.

Based on the cover, it appears they're releasing a Linkin Park album.

Based on the way Melania reacts to any public physical contact from him, I'd wager Donnie subscribes to the Sheriff of Nottingham's "I'm going to punish you by making you marry me" school of courtship.

Maybe once AP Mike coughs up that 5 grand they'll give his verse on Jelloman's The Boxer cover some due.

I also get the impression he isn't a fan of Michiko Kakutani once or twice every time he speaks.

My first impression of Cumtown forever left a bad taste in my mouth (heh heh) when someone shared a clip of them discussing the SNL writer who got fired for tweeting about Barron Trump. I definitely walked away from it with the same opinion people have about audiobooks: "I already read the internet, why do I have to…

New Mar A Lago sucked!

you know, the Infowars that the word conjures up were a lot less exciting than the Infowars George Lucas ended up depicting in the prequels.

People will continue to take cracks at Steinbeck, Faulkner and McCarthy. A Hollywood memoir (even one as thoughtful and enjoyable as I found The Disaster Artist) totally tends to have a brief moment with producers before they decide it's old news.