Vice City is still my favorite video game experience of all-time, and even I haven’t touched it since I was still in high school (so well over 12 years ago).

There’s certain titles that capture a moment both in time and in your life, and Vice City was one of those, but as a 30-year old now, I can acknowledge how…

I can’t imagine Archer without Jessica Walter, and it’s telling how far Archer has drifted from my focus since I was completely unaware there was a season underway, and I was a huge fan during it’s heyday (seasons 1-4).

Seem so long ago...

No.

I’ve said that MMOs and always-online games have issues that make them particularly susceptible to being buggy on day 1, not that there should be an assumption that every game is going to be unplayable on release. Acknowledging the possibility of unplayability is not the same as expecting the game to be…

What consumer of a video games in 2021, that’s an adult, doesn’t know there might be problems with the game on release? And what company is going to tank their own game by telling consumers, “Hey. The game might not be playable on release. Good luck.”?

There are too many possibilities with a large game, particularly…

Not at all.

Your implication is that companies don’t already inform customers, which for the most part isn’t true. With MMOs, there are beta tests. The consumers know about these beta tests. A company can’t guarantee that every single consumer will hear about the beta tests or any issues. To assume that a company can,…

I’m getting the sense that you think that consumers are idiots with short memories who don’t understand that there’s always a chance that things won’t work day 1, and that it’s solely the responsibility of the publisher to inform the consumer of the possibility that things might not work day 1. Neither one is true.

Ther…

No. The standards are going to be different because the type and size and scope of the games are different. Standards aren’t uniform over a product simply because it’s within the same realm of product. The standards expected of a $300k Ferrari are going to be different than those of a $20k Honda; some might be higher…

Even though they’re anathema at this point, it’s amazing what a company with the resources and the pedigree of MMO releases can do with current technology.

When Shadowlands dropped earlier this year, myself and thousands of others were able to access the new content without logging out of our current session. Blizzard…

His point is that, for MMOs, it’s not a lowering of the standard, it is the standard.

One, you’re dealing with disparate PC setups (in terms of hardware) that, at various settings, can still run the game. Then, you’re dealing with hardware in regards to servers and people in disparate areas of the world with differing…

Umm, putting on weight and significant makeup?

Adam Sandler put on no significant weight and grew a goatee, and again, being an auteur film isn’t necessarily Oscar bait, especially since the Safdie brothers haven’t been recognized by the Academy in any way, even though they are auteurs (and they make great films).…

Uncut Gems was almost the antithesis of an Oscar bait movie in every conceivable manner.

It was a fantastic movie, but not all fantastic movies are Oscar bait.

I remember reading a quote from Warren Buffet awhile back, concerning how he would leave his considerable fortune to his kids, and he said this (and I’m paraphrasing):

“I will leave my kids enough money to feel as though they can do anything, but not so much that they have to do nothing.”

Frankly put, I think that it’s…

I hear you.

I think another issue I’m having, and maybe this will be rectified once the show drops, but the color gamut/saturation seems a bit off and that’s where I’m getting the cheap-feeling from. It’s really off-putting, and somewhat reminds me of what they did with Speed Racer (the movie) in order to make it more c…

Man, when I saw Mad Pierrot, I literally let out a yelp.

It’s my favorite episode that doesn’t deal directly with the main storyline, and I (along with many others), wondered if and how they’d adapt it.

My God, my body is ready.

That being said, the intro does look a bit, dare I say, cheap? It’s really hard to pull off a…

I would say that, in terms of Shakespeare movies being Oscar bait, there’s a difference in a movie being Oscar bait, and a movie being good (regardless of whether it’s Oscar bait or not).

There’s been plenty of Oscar bait movies that have been absolute trash, but because of how they were made, the type of films, the…

The expectations of the efficacy of the vaccines was explained clearly to anyone with a basic understanding of statistics. The issue is that too many Americans are stupid and don’t understand statistics. Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J provided clear statistics regarding the efficacy in terms of chance of infection, as well…

The last time a sitting president had a primary challenger on the ballot was 1992, when Pat Buchanan challenged George H.W. Bush, and the last time a primary challenger won a primary state against a sitting President was in 1980, when Ted Kennedy ran against Jimmy Carter (Ted won 10 primaries, Carter won 24). His run…

AOC would never win a Senate race in New York.

She’s far too polarizing even in NYC, and she wouldn’t stand a chance in the exurbs and the north of the state.

Gillibrand is still young, and Hakeem Jeffries will probably try to follow Schumer if he doesn’t get the nod for the House Speakership after Pelosi retires.

It’s entirely straw man, for one simple reason that has been present in healthcare since time immemorial: non emergency-room doctors have a great deal of leeway to refuse care or services.

The reason it’s a straw man is the implication that a woman seeking an abortion is going to go to the nearest doctor of any kind…

It’s trying to apply economic logic that’s reserved for goods and services and applying it to labor.

The theory is that, like the price of a good or service with a strong substition effect (the ability for near substitutes to be acquired for a similar price), a price floor (or salary floor, in this instance) only…