Oh shoot, I think I made it through Kinja! Being a serial lurker with maybe 60 total posts between my Disqus and old AV Club accounts, I wasn’t sure that I would.

I’ve returned to Stardew Valley for the first time since it got its first major update in the spring of last year, and it almost immediately managed to get its wonderful hooks right back into my brain.

Just in case my little account gets lost to either the digital ether or the greys in the big Kinja transition, I just want to say that it's been a real pleasure to lurk in the shadows and upvote all of your great posts these past several years.

Excellent, that's lovely news; GLOW season 1 ended up being the rare show where I genuinely liked and rooted for every character in the cast - except for Harry Crane, who was just so very Harry Crane.

I've always felt like the gameplay in Yakuza generally boils down to being a combination of a modern evolution of River City Ransom (in the sense that they're all beat'em up brawlers with significant RPG elements) and Shenmue (in that that how a lot of how the main game advances beyond brawler combat is through…

I haven't actually played Yakuza 0 yet (or even 5, for that matter), but I'm incredibly happy that the franchise seems to have finally resonated with, and given an easy entry point for, people outside of the die-hard group of dorks like me that have been hanging around its deeply silly, melodramatic halls since its…

I'm sure this reads as pretty sad and/or corny, but the truth is, back during my adolescence and early adulthood, the Harry Potter books always made me feel like I belonged, like I had friends when, in real life, it often felt like I didn't. The hope they provided me wasn't a small thing for a deeply lonely, depressed…

Dammit, this is some fucking bullshit.

It was probably unrealistic, but I was kind of hoping that Naughty Dog would go with more of an anthology approach with The Last of Us, and follow different sets of survivors with different circumstances through different parts of the country/world.

"Oh my God, am I your hero?!"

It'd be nice to see Tyrod in an offense with quality wide receivers in it. Sammy-when-he's-actually-healthy is great and Woods-when-he's-actually-healthy is fine (and he was much more than fine on MNF), but Tyrod's spent most of this season throwing balls to guys like Goodwin, Salas, Powell, Harvin, Hunter and Tate,…

I've been playing Suikoden II for the first time over the past couple of weeks, and it has absolutely lived up to its sterling reputation. A wonderful plot, charming and compelling characters, a snappy and fun battle system that gives the player a good amount of freedom, gorgeous spritework and animation, a beautiful…

For a long time now the Buffalo Bills have turned me into a ball of grumpy cynicism during their games, so it felt very strange to be angry about a Bills game and not have the Bills be the primary reason why. They get the wrong end of the stick on calls about as often as everyone else does, but it's been years since…

After what went down on Tuesday, it almost feels nice to still be a little huffy about the ludicrous display that befell my Bills on MNF.

Hoo boy, it's a good thing the previous 16 years of Bills football have left me a soulless husk of person or else that game last night would have upset me!

After years of waiting and hoping for an English release of the 3DS remake, I'll finally be starting Dragon Quest VII over the weekend!

That talk has mercifully cooled down over the last year and a half. There are still people who prefer the Jon era of the show, which is perfectly fine, but as far as Jon's departure goes I don't really see much in the way of venom or insane conspiracy theories anymore.

Even if I hadn't enjoyed watching this special and seeing "my" Doctor (10) in action again as much as I did, it still would've been worth it just to see the look of dawning comprehension and subsequent delight on my dad's face when Tom Baker (his Doctor) made an appearance at the very end. I'm so glad that, somehow,…

Good grief, does David Bradley ever not completely nail whatever part he gets?