If they found actors to play the roles, they could have found more South Korean writers. 

As a big Sparks fan, I agree that the pacing of this movie keeps it solidly in the “B” range. The exhaustive coverage of every album, accompanied by so much TV footage, would be great for a fan-centric anthology, but it’s less compelling as a feature film.

And the egalitarian scope also means that some of the most…

I’m at the halfway point of Mass Effect 2 right now (the “derelict” Collector Ship mission) and the series remains as satisfying as ever. I’m playing a Vanguard and doing a mostly Paragon run with a Jacob romance. 

I played the first hour of Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart this morning before work, and it’s quite good.…

I’d say that Origami King is probably the best Paper Mario RPG since the Thousand Year Door. It’s not without its infuriating aspects, but overall I really liked it.

If Star Wars and Star Trek have one thing in common, it’s that their creators both recognized the principle that made-up sci fi names should be short.

Yeah. Bialik made some offhand comments in an interview from 2010 or so that her very young children had not yet been vaccinated, but she’s since confirmed that her children were vaccinated. The “anti-vax” label continues to dog her though (and it’s probably perpetuated by Big Bang Theory bros who hated the addition…

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I’m still playing the Mass Effect Collection. I’m a few hours into Mass Effect 2 now. Some of the new lighting effects are a bit distracting, but I love the shorter load times.

I’ve played ME2 many times already, so unless there are any surprising substantive bug fixes (maybe they’ll finally recognize the paragon…

100% agree on the first Dark Cloud. It’s really hard to go back after the second game. The second game managed to eliminate a lot of bloat from the first game (thirst, backfloors, too many party members) while simultaneously adding a lot of interesting new systems (photography and inventions) and a more flexible…

Just that it was treated as a watershed moment for social media at the time, but now seems very quaint and ordinary.  

Yeah. There is something very “Prime of Mr. Joss Whedon” about the whole thing.

Yeah. It’s not the nature of the movies. The 2014 ceremony (where Ellen did her infamous selfie with the audience) drew the biggest ratings of the last 20 years, and didn’t have any big hit movies apart from Gravity (unless you count Frozen, which wasn’t nominated for best picture).

In the last 5 years in particular,…

It’s hard to overstate how huge and influential it was at its peak. It almost single-handedly put kids’ cartoons back on the mainstream radar in the early 2010s.

I’m jumping (back) into the Mass Effect Trilogy this weekend.

I’m not sure what kind of approach I want to take this time through: pure paragon, or True Neutral. I did a True Neutral run for the PS3 version of the trilogy back in 2015 or so and found it very amusing (although it was less entertaining in the third game,…

I think they were always self-published via Amazon, back when that was barely a thing. But when Mike Reiss et al first started plugging the books on the DVD commentaries, the books started selling out as fast as Amazon was willing to print them.

As someone who enjoys both Rick and Morty and watching videos of other people playing side-scrolling brawler games, this was fine. The references are cute, but it never goes anywhere unexpected. If you watched it for a few minutes and thought “OK, I’ve seen enough” then you’re probably right.

Don’t you mean “Hold my raindrop drink” ?

“Amy... want... raindrop... drink.”

Even when they had Netflix money, Congo would be a little out of MST3K’s league.

There’s probably a Rifftrax for it, though.

I think “Starcrash” would have made perfect riffing fodder in 95/96. Hasselhoff was at the peak of his fame, especially in Germany.