When I was in high school, occasionally during lunch, someone would shout out “FIGHT!” and this sea of people would rush in that direction while I tried to push against the current to walk in the opposite direction. I didn’t care that it was a public spectacle, I didn’t care that other people cared, I just knew that…

Back in my day, we just had Mr. T Ate My Balls, and the endless series of Ate My Balls spinoffs it spawned. We didn’t have a word for it. There weren’t really other jokes that had spread across the Internet ad nauseum with countless people trying to put their own spin on them.

My brother’s ex-wife used to complain about my brother’s time spent gaming with me. Because anytime I was over, she felt like she had to be included in everything we did, and gaming and making in-jokes didn’t make her feel included. During his time hanging out with blood relative. That nobody asked her to be a part of.

I’ve got really warm memories of the original TMNT arcade game - playing it at a pizza parlor arcade, beating whatever level where April kisses one of the turtles at the end, thinking that was the end of the game, abandoning the cabinet, and rushing out of the arcade to brag to anyone who would listen that “April…

The phrase “evil chocolate” just makes me want to listen to BABYMETAL.

I gave up on trying to have conversations about my experiences as an atheist with people I knew in high school because the underpinnings of their Christian patriotism was simply, “The founding fathers wanted there to be a state religion in this country, and that’s a good thing, actually.” No nuance, nothing to…

For right now, it’s nice to see LGBTQ people being able to tell LGBTQ stories. It adds authenticity, minimizes the opportunity for straight actors to play up stereotypes, means they’re not being excluded from the telling of their own stories, and just generally means they’re being given acting opportunities that might…

Geek shit is great. Nobody else really has to understand it or think it’s cool, but you get in a room with 3-8 people who have the same interests and want to geek out and life is good. I’m glad these sort of hobbies have gone from the moral/religious panic over D&D in the 70s to, like, you can get Werewolf or…

We all forget which generation came after the Boomers. But Patterson was born in 1947, and my god, the shoe fits.

Hold on, I’ve been preparing this one for a while.

When I see a movie featuring Dogwelder, I will know we’ve truly arrived.

You know you could’ve avoided all of this by being born in 1952 instead of procrastinating on being born like a slacker.

He’s one of many. All of Trump’s 2016 primary opponents found him morally reprehensible until they were out of the race and it became politically expedient to adopt his reprehensible morals.

I’d really like some evidence that the justice system can still be effective against a rich buffoon with an entire political party covering for him before nature takes its course, honestly.

Of course not. We have a peaceful tourist visit.

I wrapped up Trials of Mana this week, much faster than expected thanks to the New Game + feature that quadrupled experience earned, allowing me to just burn through the other two story pathways. The remake just improved on everything from the original. It’s everything I would want out of a remake and makes me…

Or an episode of Sprockets.

Or even just let the show die entirely. We don’t need to reboot everything, we don’t need to reanimate the corpses of characters we last cared about 20 years ago, and we don’t need to tie ourselves in knots explaining how Jimothy has been lost on the Appalachian Trail for the past 6 months and couldn’t be available…

None of what I wrote was meant to sound like, “Maybe Ezra is the good guy here.” My entire familiarity with Miller is based on G/M articles about them flipping the fuck out in Hawaii and getting arrested. I think that’s plenty to conclude that Miller is terrible. I wouldn’t trust them around my 12-year-old kid if I…

I mean, exactly. There are two very easy narratives to pigeonhole this into, and Miller exhibiting bizarre and abusive behavior recently makes it easy to immediately lean into that one - especially since they met when Tokata was 12. But based on their statement, I could also easily imagine a scenario where transphobic…