I briefly worked in marketing for the DVD side of Columbia House until BMG took over and laid off just about everybody.

DVDs didn't really take off until 2000 when the PS2 came out. I'm pretty sure the PS2 was the first DVD player for most people.

Open worlds don't bother me as long as you don't have to do 100% of everything in order to get the "true ending". In fact, multiple endings just piss me off. The completionist in me wants to see every ending, but I know I simply don't have the time nor patience to root them all out. That's why I never finished games…

Eskimo Snow is exactly that—other tracks from the Alopecia sessions. That doesn't mean there isn't great stuff on there. Check out "This Blackest Purse".

I had to stop playing after the third Colossus. I felt really bad killing them and couldn't continue. I've never given a game praise for being so effective I couldn't play it before.

I'm quite fond of the second episode of Clerks: The Animated Series. It was a clips episode that kept replaying the same clip from the first episode over and over.

monikers sounds exactly like Times Up, which I've only played once and with Cards Against Humanity cards. It was pretty epic.

Mei talking about not having her parents' approval 2-3 times an episode got real old half a season ago. She started to sound like that girl in the Futurama episode "2D Blacktop" who used every opportunity to bring up being a victim of verbal abuse.

My opener-trumps-headliner is a no-brainer. We went to see Milemarker at this small bar in NYC (R.I.P. Brownies) and one of the openers was a brand new band called the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. YYYs were incredible. I never heard from Milemarker again. I think Karen O rocked their career into oblivion.

Shadow of the Colossus. I had to stop playing after the third Colossus because I was feeling way to guilty about murdering clearly innocent creatures just minding their own business.

I never beat the first Mega Man. I don't even see how the final boss rush is possible.

My favorite of 2014 is Grasshopper Jungle. I'm surprised it's not making any Best Of lists, especially when most critics, including AV Club, gushed over it earlier this year.

We had to read Where the Red Fern Grows in the 5th grade. One student didn't finish it the night before, so the teacher made him read it in class while the rest of us worked on a writing assignment.

Songs in the Key of X had a major influence on my music taste. It was the first time I had ever heard of Frank Black or Nick Cave. (Both tracks remain among my favorite songs from those artists.)

New Future of the Left side project? Hell yeah.

After watching Ghost on HBO, my mom got into a severe crying fit, and asked me to put something funny on to counteract the weeping. I chose Army of Darkness. She gave up on it after Ash's "give me some sugar, baby".

There's a decent Tetris-like board game that came out a few years ago: FITS. If the name Knizia means anything to you, then you know the game has cred.

"Oh look! An actual gay agenda!"

This book was so awful, I found myself enjoying how much I hated it. It's rife with unlikeable characters, eye-rolling cliches, terrible writing (one word: "swivelization"), motivations never made clear, 2 off-page deus ex machinas because the author doesn't have the talent to write believable dialogue between…