IIRC it was a bit of both

Is being a cord cutter even a thing that deserves a name anymore? Most people I know under 35 dropped cable for streaming services and a la carte purchases. All you're really missing is sports, and bars always show them anyway.

Sonic Youth was still going strong off the release of Washing Machine in late 2005 and Unwound put out Repetition which is maybe the best noise rock album ever. Modest Mouse also deserved more than your passing mention, This Is A Long Drive… was hugely influential on so much indie rock that came out after. If the…

Has anything even been canon in the Simpsons since Maude died? I'm not sure how a terrible ending could ruin anything more than they already have over the past 15 years.

I felt the same way the first time I watched it, but bits of it stuck in my mind and I found myself rewatching it often over the years, and now it's solidified in my mind as something amazing and unique. The scene where Justin Theroux walks in on his wife having sex with Billy Ray Cyrus and ends up covered in neon…

It was Justin Lin, not James Wan, but I can see how you got them confused since they've both directed movies in the Fast and/or Furious franchise.

Unwound. Hardly unknown, but they're the perfect combination of everything I love about the 90s noise rock scene, and each album is completely different from the one before it.

So basically it's the same as the shitty overlong Anchorman sequel we got a couple years back?

I dunno, the idea that these games are popular because they let adolescent girls use fantasy to confront real-world anxieties is nice, but I feel like they exist at the intersection of so many different sexual fetishes - and specifically the ones that would fixate on doe-eyed Disney princesses - that at it can't be a…

Philz is an extremely popular coffee chain in San Francisco, I think they just expanded down to the LA area

I feel like he's got a good thing going on when he lets his movies get more slow and atmospheric, but the ghosts always look like something out of the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. If 90% of the movie is "wait until you see this scary thing!" then it'd be nice if the scary thing didn't just look like a person in…

It's religiously informed but I don't really recall Christianity being used for much aside from extolling the power of love to conquer darkness. The characters themselves don't seem religious, and if there is a God in her universe he seems pretty absent. She plays a lot with mysticism and esotericism (maybe more in…

I kinda see him as a Tim Schafer type, an old pro who can't really deliver on his big ideas when he's given full control, except he's driven by ego instead of excitement. And instead of lovable flawed games, he just ends up making lifeless games that there's nothing technically wrong with but nothing truly redeemable…

His work with Bullfrog was way better. Theme Hospital is one of my favorite games of all time, though a lot of that might just be nostalgia.

There's always Psychonauts, but that doesn't really count since dream sequences are most of the game.

Blood Meridian is beautifully dark the whole way through, but there's something to be said for how slow and deep The Crossing goes in that direction.

I would kill for a Grim Fandango movie. I'd be happy with a movie just set during the year in Rubacava the game skips past, that's an entire story we never get to see.

They really went to a lot of trouble to pick the least controversial way possible that a teacher could quote the Bible in class. Like, it had to be above reproach to the point that even a hardline atheist would be on her side.

He's very good at pushing the other players into corners by having a keen sense of internal logic, which escalates situations and forces everyone else to be more clever. Cake Boss and ALW I feel are a little played out by now, but his Werner Herzog always kills me, and his Alan Thicke and Richard Harrow (which I don't…

I'd say Eraserhead is more about anxiety regarding sex and commitment than parental anxiety specifically, the baby is just the physical realization of that fear. Sounds like he focused on the least subtle metaphor in a movie that's already obviously allegorical.