‘Grand Theft Helicopter’ doesn’t roll off the tongue, but it’s generally accepted that it is a yet-grander theft.

Ooh! Ooh! I know this one!

Ah, the video game industry, where it’s widely accepted that customers and potential customers are presumptively bad actors until corporate decrees otherwise.

Christ, if only I could pare it down to one.

That nerdy guy on Robot Chicken has been killed dozens of times as comeuppance for childishly fantasizing about living on Middle Earth or Faerun or whatever. We need something similarly irreverent lampooning this quite-similar phenomenon.

Yeah, Smash does need to watch its back, because a game with no proper audio clips for its fighters is bound to sneak up on it.

Thank you for mentioning it so that I do not actually have to go and listen to it.

Lana’s been deconstructed so thoroughly that it’s hard to re-invest. Unlike Archer, she’s close enough to being a decent/sane human being that it gets sadder and sadder to watch her fail. It’s certainly true to life that some people don’t break the cycle, but meh. “You’re turning into Archer” is just an echo of…

That’s why it’s happening on the CW.

Remember that it’s just game when interacting with other players, but forget that it’s just a game when you’re doing virtual chores for 20 hours a week.

I’m gonna go with a classic: somebody got super pissed and tried to get the community/media guy fired. Spurned lover, perhaps? Office romances are doomed. Don’t hand out your credentials! Don’t leave your devices unattended!

The show did a pretty good job of making Bruce seem complicit, which is fine I guess. But the difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense. Grand debates about “no killing” have to engage the audience, not just the fake people dancing inside the TV box. I was just sitting there saying…

Kisara’s English VA is too much Martha Stewart for me to handle.

Even then, that’s more parodizing the artist than the song itself. People have learned the hard way that that’s not gonna save you from lawsuits in the U.S.

I guess I’ll have to wait until Super Smash Brothers Pen:Ultimate 1.9999 repeating;revision//my december (!quadrilateral:XP1!) to enjoy the retcon of Sora having never existed in the first place, or whatever.

Disney’s Legal Team would be a cooler character than anyone from Kingdom Hearts.

“That’s still a yes! THAT’S STILL A YES!” - Todd Howard, probably

I honestly don’t understand your reasoning. Of course customers have the right to ‘throw tantrums’ when they think Business A is giving them a better deal than Business B. It’s all part of the marketplace, baby. You guys want the GI publisher to be able to maximally exploit capitalism, while their customers have to be…

If you decide to become a highly organized digital drug pusher, I think you deserve to have to deal with hordes of pissed-off junkies every once in awhile. It’s a tiny dash of karmic justice - a single black fly in your swimming pool of chardonnay.

This is how the writers rehabilitate this mess: