I always want to take that as our proudest moment, but it’s not actually true. Our *side* burned down the White House, but if memory serves it was British Army regulars shipped over directly from Spain after Wellington wrapped-up the Peninsular war. The Empire got bored with letting America pretend it was a real…

You could enter essentially every building in Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim if memory serves, although to what extent you want to count their non-urban-exclusive environments as ‘urban’ is, of course, up for debate.

But then most of GTA V isn’t urban either, and you counted that.

This article has a bizarre tone of “We all know they are monsters now but obviously I will keep watching them because [no reason given].”

“In the context of factoids like this...”

Facts. “In the context of facts like this...”A ‘factoid’ is that which looks like a fact but isn’t one, as an asteroid looks like a star but isn’t one. And even if, as we seemingly must, factoid now is just a stupid synonym for ‘trivia’ or ‘short fact’ (which is how you’re…

As so often happens, the announcement of a name change or a closure is the first time I hear of a product.

3 I’m not worried about.

4, on the other hand...

“Joh Yowza”? What bad CGI Special Edition garbage is this? Who allows that on their screen? Pshaw! And Harumph!

Thank. Christ.

Not to begrudge Elden it’s success or anything, but (as with me) when you can’t play a game and will in no way be financially able to do so any time soon, seeing it spoken of to death everywhere you go just starts to weigh on you. I get it, you’re all off having a stupendous time Eldening Rings or…

The idea that we are still indebted to call Rowling a great worldbuilder in the face of years of really shitty worldbuilding is inexplicable. The Philosopher’s Stone is a sweet little Faerie story that is uncomplicated and pretty well crafted: but it’s not a strong foundation on which to build a series that wants to…

See, that’s so odd to me - not only did I find none of the songs in Encanto memorable, but that’s the one that probably had the least impact on me. I don’t remember a note, and everyone’s going around calling it the next Let It Go.

The only song that did stick with me was the first one, and that’s only because I had to…

Article: “A game that was not well-received on launch but has improved somewhat through updates with more planned for the future.”

Cyberpunk fans: “BIASED HATE-SCREED! UNFAIR!”

Encanto was very pretty movie that made no innovations, pushed no envelopes, tried nothing new, and will not stand the test of time.

This must have been an American phenomenon, or at least one relegated to big cities, because while not a frequent bowler in that period, I bowled at enough alleys over the years that I feel like I would have encountered these: never seen them, so these remakes are doubly-strange to me.

It’s important to remember that the Bechdel test is a test for judging a film’s feminist qualities, not the test, and that a failure of the Bechdel test does not a misogynistic movie make.

What characters were missing? You referenced them in your Dislikes but not in the bodytext?

Also “ The worlds you visit effortlessly blend photorealistic cliffs and deserts with digital Lego bricks” is disappointing: the LEGO movies prove that you can have all-LEGO worlds and have it look great, an for no clear reason…

I am one of those weird people whose introduction to the series was the oft-reviled monkey Island 4, but I came in with no expectations and loved it, even though I never managed to beat it. Since then I have beaten the first two and played some of three, and while I own the telltale adaptations I never got around to…

I hope Garret makes it back to his gravy planet safely. Farewell, sweet prince of golf.

Given the time zone differences I am often up far earlier than I’d like to be to watch races, and bizarrely I find the F1 commentary really soothing and have been know to doze off even during races that aren’t in Monaco.

I know very little about cars (not even medically cleared to drive one), I don’t understand a damn thing when they talk about oversteer or understeering, but I don’t need to know a damn thing to hate Max Verstappen’s pouty face and root for him to fail while make the car go vroom around the funny-shaped line.

“a fresh start, like getting into Evangelion with the Rebuild movies”

As someone who, in the last year, watch EVA for the first time—the series and then the films—the last Rebuild flick is incomprehensible without having seen the show as its a movie almost entirely about EV-the-series.

The third film is, of course, incom…