I still remember the Doctor Who episode that had Nixon with a black secret service agent in 1969. I mean, that's a show about a time-traveling telephone booth, but that stretched credulity.

Battlestar is a FANTASTIC game, even if you have no interest in the TV series. It is super-long, though, unless you play with the "Battlestar Express" rules (which I recommend unless everyone is experienced with the game already). Even then it's at least a two-hour time commitment, three hours if you're teaching a…

yeah, i think a version of the story where the israelites free themselves, culminating in mass child murder, would be really cool and morally interesting (especially when they get to the desert and are like, hey, maybe we should make a rule against murder). this wasn't that film, though, despite the weird digression…

Honestly I think trying to explain the plagues in a literal way is a dead end. The best you can hope for is "hunh, yeah, I guess."

True, but what are you gonna do? When the rulers are viewed as gods, if Prince says to party, you party.

in the 1956 film, it's a creepy green deathcloud.

note: the plague sequences are actually pretty much the only quality part of the film. worth eventually catching on HBO or Netflix as they really are excellent. Everything else is laughably unnecessary or poorly conceived/executed. I'm glad I got to see it for free.

all the candles go out and people stop breathing. it's actually kind of a nice way to do it. i think the reviewer missed the point on the "explanation" — the plagues are clearly God's wrath, it's just that the Egyptians try to justify them. By the time Plague #10 hits they've given up trying to explain things and just…

party like it's 1999 (BCE)

The AV Club
jerking off to Game of Thrones

LIKE, I AM ACTUALLY SEVERAL MILLENNIA OLD.

probably the newest one

yep! if you add them to your wishlist it'll even send you a helpful/dangerous little email when they go on sale. i would be surprised if they were anything less than 75% off when the winter sale starts next month. maybe even 80 or 90.

there have been at least half a dozen times (generally during steam sales, but also randomly at other times) where everything has been 75% off since it was released.

But you got 5 years of enjoyment out of it and they didn't. There will always be a cheaper price in the future, especially these days with pretty regular Steam sales and prices. You just have to decide if it's not worth waiting.

"Stone and Parker seem to think it’s relevant on its own, capable of being funny just because there are a ton of drones in the shot. … I get that South Park can mock whatever it wants, but replacing a shot kid with a drone isn’t really a funny way to tackle this subject."

Neither of you is correct. The reviewer's beef is that the jokes on this topic were LAZY, and in that he is not wrong. Thinking back over South Park's best "political" episodes, they share one thing: not some adherence to a particular political viewpoint that I or some reviewer might agree with, but rather careful and…

BURGER
of the day:

"personal" — when you eat people, it's ALWAYS personnel…

On a production level I agree with you, obviously Fitz is not going to be down for the count for long or they wouldn't have him still on the show's payroll; they're just stretching it out a bit for drama's sake. Which is refreshing, honestly; it's good to have decisions have at least limited consequences.