You primitive humans could never hope to comprehend the interconnectedness of reality! A femtosecond of thought would reveal how utterly absurd and trivial these conspiracy theories are. I’ve a good mind to dematerialise all of these kooks and rematerialise them just inside the event horizon of a supermassive black…

That’s the same as sort by popular.

Sadly it never made it to season A Suffusion Of Yellow.

“Look at the warheads on that!”

There’s actually a passing reference to Monk in the series finale - when Shawn visits Chief Vick and Juliet at an SF crime scene and asks if they need a consultant, the Chief replies that they already have one: he’s in the kitchen alphabetizing the pantry.

Was he forced into doing it by a Press Gang?

BRB, forming a band called “too meta for this”.

That’s a perfectly cromulent usage of the word “literally” and has been for at least 250 years.

Glorious Celebration of Patriotic Solstice Festival! With singing (in praise of Dear Leader)! And gift giving! (As long as those gifts are useful, like agricultural tools, and not decadent products of Capitalist running dogs, like chocolate or digital watches)

For the article author and others who might not have got the joke - it’s referring to Lionel Messi, the Barcelona player who has been Ronaldo’s main rival for the last 8 or 9 years. Indeed the Ballon d’Or, the trophy for the best individual footballer in the world, has been won by either Messi or Ronaldo every year…

Aristotle: ancient Greek thinker who thought the Earth was round.

This weekend (when it arrives, as being in a non-Thanksgiving-celebrating country I have to work the whole week), I will be continuing Saints Row IV. So far it’s been a lot of fun (the “Romance” options are hilarious), although I kind of suck at things like the races. Looking forward to trying new powers out in the…

Naming conventions - pretty arbitrary. FWIW, mine tends to be that game name goes in italics, whether DLC or not. If I’ve already mentioned the parent game, the DLC name stands alone, otherwise it’s parent game : DLC name. Colon separator, unless the main game already has a colon, in which case I might use a hyphen,…

I completed my point-and-click run through with The Longest Journey, which I had to play in stretched widescreen as no matter what settings I used or what graphics card doohickey I fiddled with, I couldn’t get it to run full-size/preserve aspect ratio. I must have looked at a dozen forum posts or articles. Still a…

Hooray for Manichaeism!

They already added light sabers - Dark Forces II : Jedi Knight.

So, the Gillette business model, except the razor costs $60, and if you buy a pack of blades you don’t know how many blades it contains until you open it. Also you need to shave 60 times or pay more money to unlock the ability to use shaving gel.

Note that he refers to O’Neal’s “six pages of snide dismissal” - I’m guessing he had someone print it out so he could read it.

Well, it’s something of a community norm to be nice to other, going right back to the start of Gameological as a spin-off site from the AV Club. It kind of got ingrained as a culture, because it always had thoughtful writing and interesting discussions, without much bitterness or too much snark. It helps that the…

Ooh, I just thought of another point and click to recommend- Toonstruck. It definitely has an internal logic, but it’s the internal logic of Looney Tunes cartoons.