I highly recommend the A More Civilized Age podcast. The commentary is fantastic, unpacking the details of good episodes, and making the many rough episodes worth watching just to hear what the AMCA folks’ reaction would be. I avoided Clone Wars (and non-film Star Wars) completely, but that podcast sucked me in. It…

The conservative corporate defender has taken up arms against the conservative barely-literste troll. This comment thread has officially become a microcosm of the Disney/DeSantis feud!

People who don’t have the condescending attitude that five-year-olds deserve mindless garbage recognize that you can pitch a movie at five year olds that actually respects them rather than just trying to sell them something. Happy Meals and algorithmically generated YouTube nonsense videos are also pitched at…

Another important variable is that, historically, that $70 is extremely low for what a lot of “average gamers” expect from a game. A top-tier RPG in 1995 cost $80, which is about $160 in 2023 dollars.

She makes a date with Elan and is stood up. She is visibly blushing and flattered when Guel gives her romantic attention. It’s pretty overt that she's bi/pan.

“We had to dumb it down so Americans would watch it.”

Did Ezra ever have his hair parted like that?

I remember when, as part of a Feminist Wiki Edit-a-Thon, I created a page for award-winning game designer and artist Nathalie Lawhead, and how much pushback I got from self-appointed editorial gatekeepers about whether she had the notoriety to warrant a page.

Much like AI, police dogs’ main actual purpose is just to be a bullshit justification for ginning up probable cause.

A lot of the Ambernic ones have an OG GBA layout (including one I got my mom as a gift last year!).

When I played the game in around ‘09, it was already pretty dire - ugly as sin, with hokey writing, and a laughable binary morality system. But it's undeniable the impact it made on both Star Wars (creating a whole new era to explore and introducing some memorable characters like HK), and on Bioware (paving the way…

This game was maddening and mystifying to me as a kid on my 7800. But it was gorgeous. This re-framing sounds like the perfect way to revisit it.

As much as I love his work, I’m not going to a super spreader death box to see it when we still lose a 9/11's worth of people each week to an ongoing pandemic. I'll catch it on streaming, thanks.

For real. At worst, a lateral move. Was this ghostwritten by a Google staffer?

So even your disreputable cult rag of a newspaper admits that they just did exactly what they said - target purveyors of dangerous misinformation like Kennedy and Carlson.

Not even Chinese propaganda - Falun Gong cult propaganda, deliberately pushing a regressive and unhinged worldview. If aec007 can’t find corroboration outside of that compromised source, they’re no better than your racist uncle sharing Fox News headlines on Facebook and claiming it’s ‘true’ that CRT infects children…

Pssst - You’re pretty much supposed to treat EVERY Zelda game that way.

The fact that the completely ugly OoT isn’t dead last here is baffling. Maybe it could be a slot above the CDI Zeldas.

Majora’s Mask has enough sense of style to do something interesting with its limited tech. OoT is just an ugly mess.

Also, staying vague, there are some extensive multi-part quests in the depths that encourage exploration and discovery (though admittedly I’d say that whole space is not as compelling as the surface). There are also tons of hidden treasures they might compel exploration, or might feel like busywork, depending on your…