Every co-op game can be played alone—you just have to hot seat roles.

So I've only caught a couple of these so far, and am starting to get into it despite the fact that everything in future has to be blue. Gotta question though, does the show care that Urban is shooting MXs all the time? I figure the whole theme is that they have humanity, and presumably the older "defective" models are…

Oh god, you read that too? It was the first time I met the limit of my "I wish superhero comics would try more things" interest with "I sure wish the main character would appear occasionally in his comic."

Out of curiosity, what are the games out there that people think refers to smart literature and holds up? I typically think most games suck at living up to their references—which doesn't mean they fail as games, just that thematically it's usually an eye-rolling mess. Far Cry 2 vs any of the other games that seem to…

I liked the play—well, more entertained then liked—but it's always felt like a crowdpleaser/awards bait. It goes a bit broad for my taste.

I love me some Steam, but the price points for those machine things…well, I'll just hook up my pc to my tv then, yeah?

So I caught up to The Snowmen last night, and that's where I am—did this stuff play better watching it as it came out? It was entertaining, but I'd call the half season that led up to it generally bad, and Moffat at his most Moffaty. Is it because I watched it in a binge, or does the Doctor moods feel more bipolar…

Huh, while I had the same emotional arc watching—being enthused with Moffat taking over—mostly I was ready for the change and hoping to detach from the companion-loves-the-doctor arcs a bit, but I always figured that plot-structure aside, Moffat was always going to be the campier one. I mean, he likes the…

Huh, while the helper monkey lines were meant as a tension raiser—the "probability of death" or whatever thing as well in one of the last scenes—it totally feels like something they'll follow up on.

Saved it for last…I was waiting for that 100 Bullets storyline to come up. It's one of my least favorite ones, but there you go.

I'm going to take this as an opportunity to shout out some love for Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac, a strip so lovely, that Watterson came out to praise it. All too brief—Thompson has Parkinsons and eventually called an end to it—but what there is is all really great.

I'm totally boggled by this reading of Sacco's newest work. I mean, I get it, it's unwieldy, but the scale, that's part of the point of trying to understand what happened. As far as self-conscious, it explicitly doesn't spend time depicting a lot of gore, and while super-impressive unfurled, if you look at a plate or…

So I realize this is sentiment is counter to the entire point of this list, but at least a few of these options elicited at most a "I guess, if they have to end up with someone…" reaction. I wish coupledom wasn't such a necessary ingredient for a "satisfying" ending. The bad pairings are because we expect stories to…

Scott Pilgrim was too immature to be with anyone, and at the end he kind of knows it. That should've been the real ending.

And then they should it to impressionable young minds anyway. It did look like a news program, War of the Worlds-like, but what the panic was. Looting? Suicide cults? Too many peaceniks? Nowadays more doomsday preppers.

That seems the likeliest candidate. Presumably I saw it in school sometime in the 80s after it was allowed again, but I don't know.

I haven't seen it, but I think that one is animated. I've heard good things about it. I've never quite mustered up the will to watch it though—that and Grave of the Fireflies. I think I might ball up now just thinking about it…

That (and The Day After) came up when I was looking for mine, but the one I remember was definitely black and white. I remember them depicting the blast survivors, and the slow starvation that they likely wouldn't survive…

I think it may be a more YMMV kind of thing—not specific to this Donner Party entry but I can be scared with a horror movie, but it's a safe kind of scared since there's always a distance with something made up, but I certainly remember being more viscerally scared of war—but the Cold War was a much bigger deal for me…

If we're gonna go this sort of thing, I think post-nuclear war documentaries win out. I'm not 100% sure The War Game is the one I mean, but a black & white British movie I saw as a kid was the most terrifying thing ever.