“In August of 2014, as they continued to prototype and dream about their game, they lost their leader. Casey Hudson, who had directed the beloved Mass Effect trilogy duology and had dreamed of directing the never-realized third entry that surely would have been great and not a thirty-hour story of heroism and…

Game of Thrones feels exactly like the sort of “real,” “gritty,” “Meaningful”art that some well-meaning playwright would put on in Ankh-Morpork or Lancre and a wise Granny Weatherwax or Sam Vimes standing off to the side would wonder why everyone seemed so eager to praise the “verisimilitude” of a story so completely…

Hey AvClub. It’s April 2nd 2019.

Why the ever-loving fuck is your algorithm promoting this god-damn year-old article in the menu header?

Love and kisses,

DeRiven

Bullshit. There’s very clear evidence that it helps move product.

It might help to know that Jojo and her family of seven live in a small trailer in an alleyway behind the mansion. The house is owned by her production company, and is forbidden to Jojo when the cameras are not rolling, and to the rest of the Siwa family at all times.

Sometimes, when Jojo cradles the coughing form of…

I haven’t played Dwarf Fortress in a couple years, but taking the last decade as a whole I’ve spent a lot of time there, and its a game i still follow its progress with interest: I haven’t stopped playing, I’m simply not playing right now.

There have been many, many imitators of its gameplay style, but none have come…

No, she’s simply fallen into the heavy, unbreakable stupor that falls upon anyone who endures more than eight seconds of a baseball game.

“Hussle’s killer has not been apprehended and is still at large.”

Hand to god it wasn’t until this, the final sentence, that I realize he hadn’t been shot to death by cops who had just happened on by, since every second article on here lately has been nothing but a bleak litany of such deaths.

Woof.

...

It’s a fair cop, but society is to blame.

The British complain about both their rail and their mail because yeah, they’re much better compared to North America - but they used to be so much better and go to more places, and be nicer to be on, and decades of austerity and ‘due economy’ and good old fashion greed that took away things that didn’t make enough…

You’re welcome.

it’s just been stewing in my brain for a while - taking the current state of First World Democracies into account (Trump in the US, Brexit in the UK, our regular-as-clockwork Liberal scandal here in Canada (the Liberals can’t get through a single term in office without doing something boring, corrupt,…

I’ve been reading a lot - an awful lot - about the First and Second Indochina Wars: usually just referred to in America as the “Vietnam War,” a polite fiction that not only excludes undeclared wars fought in Laos and Cambodia but ignores America funding the entire conflict in the region from 1945 onwards and involving…

His best of friends called him ‘candle ends’
And his enemies ‘toasted cheese’...

Really, though, why would you go to all this trouble to explain how to make a truly delicious snack and then insist on buying grocery-store, pre-sliced bread with all the snobbish authority of something insisting that the true judge of…

Reminder: Game of Thrones is so committed to the idea that misery and blood are what make fantasy grown-up and mature that even by this point in the series it is wearily predictable.

What does Game of Thrones have to do with the Middle Ages?

This never happened. It isn’t real. Nothing in it is real.

For the curious, the fire’s most notable effect on American history was improvements in the fire safety codes in New York City that led to the construction of far safer skyscrapers like the Empire Stare Building, with its 9 staircases, masonry-encased designated fire stairwell, fire airlock, and other such…

“before we learn about what happens to him in the books”

God I hope this as literal as it reads and its just a game about being Smeagol, an ordinary dude in pre-Shire Hobbit society who just sort of lives his life.

Game play is peaceful open-world and runs indefinitely so long as you don’t go fishing with your cousin…

That’s easy. I want to see him buy brand new copies of each game, put ‘em in a . stack with a brand new memory card on top (Or... hard drive, I guess, this is 2019), and then concentrate on them so hard that when opens up the hard drive for the first time it contains five 100% no-hit saved games.

That’s the true test…

God I love Todd in the Shadows but haven’t watched him for years - largely because I don’t really engage or have much interest in pop music so most of the stuff he covers I’ve never heard of. Sort of the same issue I have with postmodern Jukebox: Oh wow, they released a cover of... something. And another something.…

I don’t know who that is.