I’ve never had a desire to see it again because it was so emotionally draining.

Oh man, I hadn’t picked up on that. But I stand by my assertion that the robots’ dialogue makes it very clear what’s going on.

I don’t understand how people misunderstood the future robots. They’re pretty explicit that they are interested in humanity as their long-lost creators. I guess if the characters don’t outright say, “We are robots from the future” then people are too dim to get it.

I never finished the Hyperion books. They were...fine, I guess. I don’t remember much about them.

I mean...I don’t know. It was, at the very least, a weird direction to take it.

My primary complaint with the ending is that it basically hinges on being furious with the Victorians for climate change, which seems unfair; of all the terrible things they did, that’s one of the few where they really didn’t know better. It also relies on a literal murder-monster as the vector for sympathy in that…

I thought the book was terrific...except for the disastrously terrible ending. Hopefully this series sidesteps it. I’m going to have to figure out what my options are for this one; I may have to buy the season on Amazon.

One question I have: how is everyone simultaneously so poor and living in such a shitty world that they retreat into the closest thing they can get to the Matrix and able to afford, in both time and money, the ability to do so?

I think James Marsten is a great character in a middling story that gets something of a pass thanks to the excellent world design.

The Fort Mercer quest in Red Dead Redemption is the worst offender for feeling like a waste of your time. Not only is the grand plan so poorly explained that it’s not clear what you’re doing until you’re doing it, the game turns the location into a repeatable quest afterwards where you and an NPC storm it by just…

This weekend I will be continuing to play through Devil May Cry 4 for the first time. Nero is definitely not as fun as Dante, and his gimmicks are either undercooked (charging his blade and gun is a cool idea that really isn’t used to any great effect and takes a strangely large amount of time and effort for little…

The thing is that Puzo’s description kind of makes it sound like Sonny going all out would actually injure his partners, and on the morality scale it’s a lower bar to clear than “cares about their comfort.” I mean, he still cheats incessantly on his wife, so it’s not like he cares enough to just, you know, dial back…

The description somehow undersells the bizarre nature of the vagina subplot in The Godfather. Her whole arc is about how no man is satisfied with her cavernous vagina—except for Sonny Corleone, whose own freakish penis had never before encountered a woman who could handle it without agony.

I’ll be tilling red soil in Surviving Mars. Gamestop actually sold me a copy nearly a week early, so I’ve got a decent amount of time sunk already. I’m still coming to grips with the clunky interface, unfortunately, but I’ve successfully established one colony and am now interested in applying what I’ve learned to a…

Glad to see you finally cover this show! I think you might be overselling this season’s incoherence. While it’s light on the specifics of how things work—what is with that weird meat monster and the little ghouls?—it’s easy to grasp the general plot. There’s an air of Lovecraft to the whole proceedings, and I’m…

I’ve never even beaten XCOM2 despite sinking a lot of time into it. It’s good, and better in a lot of ways than Enemy Unknown, but it’s also more complex and challenging. But by all accounts this expansion is practically an XCOM3, so I want to give it a go.

It doesn’t make any sense to me to make a new one given how few people owned a WiiU, but that’s the way the game’s director is talking about it:

Not sure what I’ll be playing this weekend. Been toying around with Bloodborne now that there’s an influx of online players. If you’re a noob who is struggling, I recommend sticking with the game until you have gotten your first Insight. Besides allowing you to level up, this will let you purchase the co-op bell. Ring…

We saw a little of that in Jurassic World: genetically engineered killing machines for military use.

I’ve said it before, but the JP franchise’s shift from “cautionary tale of man’s attempts to control nature” to “slick examination of how advanced genetic engineering would be commercialized in our society” is a strange one that muddles the appeal and message of the series.