So what's the word for that thing where the Marvel movies aren't as good as they could be because, as said in the video, they're overstuffed and they don't get to end? Franchise building? Plot stuffing? Meta-story considerations? I need some coinage.

Who is playing the new season in Diablo III? Raekor's/Boulder Toss is a beast.

Luckily, Dawson or whatever his name is has been accidentally vaccinated against Hive, so he can pretend to be under control long enough to blast him and save the day.

I just attended the "pop-up premiere" of AMC's new Preacher series in Minneapolis.

XCOM sort of does. But unless you're strictly playing Ironman, XCOM uses perma-death to manage the stakes more than the narrative. If every little mistake can kill you, NOT making any mistakes and having to reload feels really rewarding. Later missions will put you in situations where you kind of have to cut your…

Would-be video game developers should embrace "fail forward" storytelling like a good DM does. Instead of failure means death means game over and reload, just change the stakes and change the narrative. Have an item get stolen requiring a sidequest to re-obtain it; have a beloved character get kidnapped for the time…

The sand snakes murdering everyone makes a lot more sense as a cap to last season than it does at the start of this one.

To sum up, there's a part where a stripper says "Nice to meet you, my name is Tracy", and the narrator continues "And that's how I met your mother…" Kids: "WHAT??!" "Just kidding." But the kids were shocked by the joke, because of the setup. We, the audience, are led to believe that the 'Tracy' part isn't part of the…

Or you could just load it up on Netflix.

Yesterday I discovered that the Mother's name is revealed to be Tracy in Season 1, Episode 9. It was a pretty subtle reveal, quite surprising!

You got violence in my porno! No, you got porn in my violence!

What is Freeform?

I just saw Age of Ultron a couple days ago and I liked it more than I had expected to. It had two many X-Men and associated dream sequences but I felt like it dragged less than Avengers 1. The hour-long robot fight was really only like 20 minutes and moved at a brisk pace; I especially thought it was interesting how…

After the Avengers fight each other at the airport, and most of them are killed or grievously injured…

My favorite faith-based film is Harold Ramis' remake of Bedazzled. Snark. In seriousness though the message of "Heaven and Hell exist right here on Earth" is one for the ages.

Great, that'll be in my head all day.

I don't know why, but all of my Joes (it was only a couple) were missing one of their hands, Luke-in-Empire style.

It's awesome. Inarguably (ok, of course you can argue about it, it's the internet) his best work. AND it has a satisfying conclusion! (And not just the satisfaction of finally getting through 4000 pages!)

Yes. I love that quest so much. Saving Kent took a lot of save-and-reload magic though. Besides the hilarious Shroud dialogue, my favorite part was how cool Hancock is with it. "Fly your freak flag, man…"

I don't know what you're talking about and still burst into laughter.