I mean, the thing is that Sony owns some 20+ first party studios. We just don’t think this is weird because we’re used to it since this has been the case for a while. But if I don’t object to Sony owning 20+ first party studios, I likewise don’t see a reason to object to Microsoft owning 20+ first party studios.

I confess while I am an Xbox person, I do kind of want the MS/Activision-Blizzard merger to fall through just because I do not play games by that company. Seriously the last two games from Activision and/or Blizzard I bought were Diablo 3 and DJ Hero.

It feels like Roguelikes in the style of Rogue or Nethack or Angband are sufficiently rare that they probably deserve their own modifier (like “old school roguelikes” or “hardcore roguelikes”). The “Rogue-lite” terminology can probably reserved for the extreme other end of the spectrum. Nomenclature changes to reflect…

“No Sequels Ever” seems unnecessarily artistically limiting, since sometimes not only does the sequel exceed the original but the sequel manages to be among the greatest things in its category ever (Like the Godfather Part 2 or Mad Max: Fury Road)

I mean, the thing about the hospitality reason is that the basic reason you don’t want sick people coming into work is not “sick people are less good at their jobs” but that you’re in the hospitality industry and guests who contract a communicable illness at your establishment are unlikely to be happy customers.

I think my problem with the Crispy Chicken Crispers is redundancy.

I mean, there’s two really good contemporanous with antiquity sources for Greek Myths- Homer and Hesiod. Hesiod has incest all the way down since he tries to do a complete accounting of all beings from the beginning. Like not just Zeus marrying his sister and having a kid with his other sister. Gaea, one of the…

Really when your story is about the Greece of antiquity and/or the myths therefrom if everybody doesn’t land in the mid-range of the Kinsey scale, something has gone wrong.

I just don’t get why nobody in security stops this or why nobody in the booth cuts the mic.  We spent too much time worrying about what people are wearing that we forgot we should actually have professionals in the crew to run the show.

I was thinking how Supergiant sort of dodged all the incest among the Olympians in Hades. Since per Hesiod Cronus is the father of Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, Hades, and Demeter. Not only did Zeus marry Hera and produce several children (e.g. Ares) but he also was the father of Persephone via Demeter. Since…

I will note that Hades’s dad-Titan Cronus (Κρόνος) is not actually the same being as the anthropomorphization of Time (that’s Chronos- Χρόνος)  but the two were conflated often enough in antiquity (including by Plutarch) that Supergiant can get away with it.

Can we recast Diana.  Gal Gadot’s (odious) IRL politics aside, it’s pretty clear she’s a substandard actor when it comes to everything except “standing there and looking striking.”  Like every time she opened her mouth in Death on the Nile the film became farcical.

There are several movies on here, not all of them though, that are nowhere near as good as “Ernest Saves Christmas.” Which I suppose, tells you what I think about the Santa Clause.

I grew up in a family where “going out to eat” involved never ordering appetizers, drinks, or dessert; I went to bartending school to avoid social drinking in college; and I keep 8 different kinds of rum in my home.  I’m just worried that restaurants are going to resent the fact that I’m probably not ordering a drink…

I mean, I’m an agoraphobe with social anxiety and I want my drunken noodles to be so spicy that this literally limits how fast I can eat them.  I once had some chicken that was so spicy I burst a capillary in my eye- that was a fantastic experience.

“Woke is when someone has an opinion I don’t approve of” apparently.

It feels like the sartorial model for “Games Awards” is less “The Oscars” and more “The Scientific and Technical Oscars crossed with the Grammys”.  There’s no red carpet to speak of (since the audience generally does not recognize who these people are) and the standards for “formality” are open to interpretation.  But…

If Microsoft wants to fend off Antitrust complaints by putting games from first party studios on Nintendo consoles, I am going to be right up front and say that I 100% want to play Fallout: New Vegas on the Switch.

Papa Murphy’s is the only one of these that I frequent with any regularity, but I have made “discount tuesdays” a thing I participate in frequently for years.  Once you figure out how to best cook the pizza in your oven (which might not be to follow their directions) it’s a pretty solid pie.  I just wish they’d change…

It was always unclear to me why, in 1992, you would theme your new log flume ride after a 46 year old film that even the 90s you were sufficiently embarrassed by that you wouldn’t show it to someone.  Surely there was something else in the Disney inventory they could have used (like a Black Cauldron flume!)