I loved Emily VanDerWerff’s assessment, “The Lion King (2019): The cinematic equivalent of sitting in traffic.”

The real “hook” of SEAMAN is that he asks you a question once a day (as determined by the console’s calendar) and then gives you an amateur therapist spiel before he leaves you forever.

The class has struggled for identity for a variety of reasons. Their classic signature abilities have either become available to everyone (tracking and dual wielding) or else were significantly nerfed in 5e (animal companions and favored enemy). I’ve never been a fan of the narrative behind favored enemy (it makes…

Fascinating. This guy is new to me. (I was a fan from the late Hulkamania era thru the early ruthless aggression era, and just recently got back into it.) I always wondered where the veteran smarks (like the OSW Review crew) get their inside info from. 

Never say never, I guess.

I remember, even in the 90s, some CD reissues of previously vinyl-only albums/songs had to resort to making a digital copy directly from the vinyl record itself, since the masters were lost. 

I’ve always wondered how much forward planning Claremont did with his X-books, and how much was made up on the fly. In the latter part of his run, especially, he would drop story seeds which wouldn’t pay off for years, but it’s not necessarily obvious that he knew how it would ultimately play out. For example, Mr.…

I was glad that Claremont brought Madelyne into the X-men. He was a master at salvaging terrible story decisions made by other writers (see also, Carol Danvers’ forced pregnancy.) 

Yeah. The parts where Adam and his friends are just hanging around and having this idyllic sort of childhood are not quite as charming as they could be. They’re too ordinary. I get that they wanted Good Omens to be a story about humanity personified, but they didn’t have to make that personification so mundane. The…

The Guardian gave it 3/5 and said pretty much the same thing as this review: that the series drags a bit whenever it shifts its focus from Crowley and Aziraphale. 

I loved David Jason as Albert, but really think he should have allowed a younger man to play Rincewind. 

As entertaining as they are, a lot of the book’s side characters and subplots don’t add much to the overall story. I suspect that’s because the novel was a collaboration. When you’re dealing with the work of a friend, you’re always going to err on the side of inclusion, moreso than if it was wholly your own work. If…

I thought it was kind of appropriate and poignant that it ended with Jean begging Wolvie to kill her instead of Jean blasting herself. That doesn’t excuse the rest of the Last Stand, though.

Bran didn’t choose to reveal Jon’s lineage to the other Starks; he very deliberately told Jon that it was his choice to make.

Gendry at least had the dubious advantage of being a king’s bastard. All Bronn had was his fighting skill, and the guts to risk his own life for Lannister gold. 

It shouldn’t have surprised me that wrestling was the first cable TV show to surpass one million viewers. 

Yeah, that was a really happy ending for Dan. He found that he could live his life in the way he wanted without being in the political world. If only more amoral egomaniacs could learn that lesson...

I think that Barry failing upward at acting could be a wonderful avenue for the show to explore. So far, season two has followed the same basic structure of season one, albeit in a fresh and twisty way, so it might be nice to see a fresh status quo in season three.

I’ve still got a few puzzles left in the latest Picross game for Switch, and I’ll probably play some more Baba is You and Tetris Effect as well.

I picked up the Hydro 57 cover versions of the core books just before Christmas last year, and they are still in their original shrink wrap, at least until my original books finally disintegrate.