I said I would pick up Prey next time it was on sale, and it’s on sale, so I will be playing it.

O’Neal speaks the truth about Blade Runner 2049.

This was one of the best games I played all year, so count this as a recommendation.

This was one of the best games I played all year, so count this as a recommendation.

A) I didn’t edit my post.

This was a real surprise, and a great show. I don’t get the comparisons to Stranger Things, though. Beyond some 80's nostalgia—and not really a lot of it, at that—they really don’t have much at all in common.

Yes, I’m 100% positive the average person on the street is fully aware that Mark Hamill has had a long and celebrated career as a voice actor. I should never have implied otherwise.

I wonder if Hamill’s bitterness—if perceived correctly—has anything to do with the disconnect between Luke Skywalker and Mark Hamill’s career trajectories. Luke ascends to hero status and, filled with pride, basically fucks up monumentally by overestimating himself and being too enamored of the idea of his own…

I’ve got a 70-inch 4k TV and I typically don’t see the difference. The HDR color is the bigger deal to me, and frankly the improved color—even for content that doesn’t take advantage of HDR—makes a more obvious difference than the resolution.

I think that HDR color makes more of a difference, myself. My 70-inch 4k TV is massive for the room it’s in, and I honestly don’t see much difference between 1080p content and the 4k content that my PS4 Pro puts out for such games as Horizon and Uncharted 4.

I’ve been thinking about this movie recently, and you know what disappoints me the most about it? The first Jumanji had kind of a lot going on. There was the sequence in the past, the tension between Williams’ character and his father, the grim time jump for the character, the woman who was marked as insane, the kids…

Prey is on my “next time it’s on sale” list.

I’ll be continuing exploring in Axiom Verge. I’m not sure how far along I might be in the game, but I’ve found a couple of translation codes and can now warp mid-air in any direction (largely obsoleting the grapple hook, which was the clunkiest upgrade anyway), so the world is more accessible than ever.

Netflix’s Dark is a must-watch for anyone looking for a Fringe-y tale of time travel and its terrible consequences.

I feel like just about any scene from Blade Runner 2049 could be on this list thanks to how beautifully it was shot, but the fight between Gosling and Ford is probably the highlight. Special mention goes to the scene where Gosling takes Joi out in the rain, and the follow-up scene when he realizes that Joi just pulled…

It came out of nowhere, but Netflix’s Dark is proving to be really good, marrying a Fringe-like plot about time travel to a web of deeply unhappy people whose lives are inextricably bound up with timeline-mangling events that they can only see a part of. I’m two episodes from the (season? series?) finale and still…

The fallout of Fuller and Green leaving American Gods is probably going to kill the show before it even really got going. I had some issues with their approach to the material, but it was clearly their baby and I don’t think it’s going to survive without them.

Wow, am I the first comment? On a Star Wars review!?

That’s a good standard, although I don’t know how consistent it is. I’d say that the bank heist in Death of the Outsider took me as long, if not longer, than the Great Plateau; certainly as a percentage of the game it’s a much larger slice.

This is a pretty comprehensive list, and I’m struggling to add to it. I would like to give a nod to Breath of the Wild’s Great Plateau, which is an all-time great tutorial level and one that eases you into a massive game with a confidence that few tutorials manage.

This weekend I’ll be playing the Monster Hunter World beta. It becomes available at noon tomorrow (EST), and I’m excited to jump in and give it a whirl.