“Portia de Rossi, who plays Lindsay, disappears after episode five”

Generally speaking, his short fiction is the best on offer. 1408, from Everything’s Eventual, is my favorite of his short stories.

So I was a little confused about Shogun World. Are the hosts there rebelling, too, or not? They seemed caught in their normal stories, but able to deviate from them in ways they shouldn’t. But they also didn’t seem to be hunting down guests like at the other parks, where the hosts seemed to drop what they were doing…

That is an extremely accurate assessment of Guillermo del Toro’s output. I think a big part of the problem is dialogue. Perhaps it’s different in his native Spanish, but none of his English-language films have anything approaching great dialogue. It’s always rather wooden and blunt.

It ain’t great.

They said the most likely culprit is a dead motherboard. It just took them awhile to find a replacement model that would work with all my components. Assuming that this is indeed the problem and it arrives within the 3-5 business days they told me, I should have it back by early next week. Theoretically I could have…

For the record, the first Pillars of Eternity has a Story Mode difficulty level as well, although it’s a much drier game in terms of storytelling.

Also: God of War 2 was all about time travel shenanigans. The entire point of the game was to kill the Sisters of Fate so that you could undo the events of the first hour or so.

Don’t forget: Athena shows up at one point. Although killed by Kratos at the end of God of War II, in God of War III she returns after having “ascended to a higher reality” and helps Kratos murder his way up Olympus so she can gain the power of Hope (yeah, it’s dumb). She’s furious when she discovers that Kratos had…

The weak humor dominated the conversation, but I thought it did a couple of other things much better. While it might not have been the most amazing or unique story ever, the clear-cut, well-executed narrative didn’t inflate stakes or underserve any of the characters. The violence actually felt impactful without ever…

I’m actually more interested to see this one. The first was fine enough, I guess, but I thought it wasn’t really as clever as it thought it was, mostly just presenting a stock superhero story and layering mostly weak, referential humor on top. But the trailer for the sequel seems funnier, and it sounds like this one…

I guess it depends on your perspective, but I certainly wouldn’t invest untold fortunes in creating a replica of myself for the purpose of cheating death. That’s not immortality just because some continues to exist who has all of your memories up to (or near) the moment you died.

The Scary Door, because who has time to watch a full-length anthology series these days?

I hope it’s just something minor. If it needs a new graphics card I’m going to cry, because just yesterday Nvidia had all of their cards back in stock at MSRP and I could’ve gotten one at a reasonable price.

I was planning on playing a lot of Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire this weekend, but instead it looks like I’ll be playing the much less fun, much more expensive Take my PC to a Shop for Diagnosis and Hopefully Swift Repair. The damn thing just stopped working yesterday. No warning or strange behavior leading up to…

The presence of a child character is rarely a good sign in a film like this.

Yeah, like I said to someone else, I really shouldn’t play video games during Westworld. Not that I’m going to admit that to my boyfriend.

Dammit. This is why I shouldn’t play Donkey Kong while watching TV.

Did nobody else notice the huge tip-off that Delos has been replacing guests with hosts? Bernard hacks the outlaw to become principled and virtuous, and suddenly one of the guests he and Charlotte are with flips out and starts ranting—in very odd dialogue—about his principles and refuses to stand down and gets killed…

Agents work pretty well in Warhammer II now that they’ve dramatically reconfigured what they do, how they do it, implemented a cap on how many you can have, and allowed them to participate in battle as very powerful heroes.