Yeah, those caves are a bitch. I found out after I beat it that there's a torch and I think maybe also a flashlight hidden somewhere, which would've made my life a lot easier. As it was, I just threw flash grenades all over the place and bumbled around until i somehow made it out.

Calling schlubby dude/gorgeous wife "dead for years" is a stretch: look at Big Bang Theory or take your pick from a number of Apatow-produced films. And that weak-ass strawman legit made me laugh: the central argument against SG/GW isn't that ugly guys don't deserve love, it's that the trope's an exclusively…

But really though: you didn't have to look hard to find people who legitimately held (and hold) this viewpoint, which just makes me really uncomfortable. How skewed do you have to be to watch BB and come away with that interpretation of WW?

This is actually a great question. For whatever reason, it's easier for me to think of examples from literature: Philip Marlowe immediately comes to mind, even though he's a deeply flawed person in so many ways.

This actually wasn't all that uncommon back in the '40s and '50s– people were trying to make sure that their sons wouldn't be called "boy."

Yeah, I really should reread that one. Just from memory I can see how people would be offended by the portrayal of the black dude and the story's magical negro tropes, but I need to go back to see just how bad some of that stuff was.

The Cay! That book was intense.

I loved Gary Paulsen's stuff in elementary school because it always seemed darker and more real than anything else, like we shouldn't be allowed to read it. Hatchet was my favorite, but The Rifle was one of the first times I was legitimately shocked by a book. I really should revisit it to see how it holds up; I just…

Wow, even jokingly imagining that for a few seconds is painful.

They're both brutal but I think ultimately what give Entire History the edge is the lower stakes and more recognizable people. You feel awful watching the memory wipe stuff, but you're always aware you're observing sci-fi. The final conversation in Entire History is just thoughts and emotions familiar to anyone who's…

I was about to make this exact comment. White Bear's brutal, yeah, but it invites a second viewing just to see how the twist is set up. The final ten minutes of The Entire History of You is just emotionally punishing on a much more personal level and hits way to close too home to casually watch again.

Watching that show made me physically uncomfortable; there were times where I was tensing up so hard i started cramping. The scene where Valerie's talking about her experience on the field hockey team? Jesus Christ.

I see where you're coming from, but Donuts is definitely shaped (for lack of a better word) by Dilla's illness. I mean, the final song on the album is based of a sample of a song called "When I Die." https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Apropos of nothing, I've always thought that It Was Written and Stillmatic should've switched cover art.

Welp, this college student's just figured out what they're going to be doing this weekend! Thanks, Fuzzy Pickles!

Oh, Drake absolutely comes off as a manipulative asshole. To his credit, though, he's only a manipulative asshole to grown women, which is the faintest of faint praises but still counts for something.

Agreed on the Trinidad, really hope he keeps making great independent stuff.

It takes a special kind of person to not just leave the mother of your child for a 16-year old girl, but brag about doing so. If there were any justice he'd be looking at statutory rape charges, but I guess Wayne dropping him from Cash Money and keeping his masters was a decent alternate.

Whoo! Nothing like a scorching-hot take in the middle of winter to put a little pep in your step!

The greatest irony of our age is that the only thing more pompously insufferable than Kanye West is an AV Club comment section on a Kanye West Newswire.