Creepy, but I’m way more creeped out by the implications of what else you could do with this.

If you start looking up weird reasons for movie ratings, you will find some real gems — and, yes, a lot of Smoking is Bad(tm). The best one from that category:

WADDAFITE!

Side note, but something I’d recommend to anyone: before buying ANY antenna, research what kind of reception you’re liable to get where you live. No matter how good your antenna is, if the signal for the channels you care about is going to get blocked by, say, that pesky mountain behind your house (welcome to my…

Side note, but something I’d recommend to anyone: before buying ANY antenna, research what kind of reception you’re…

Game completion rates are minuscule across the board. Moreover, a game being lackluster is a very, very good reason for not finishing it, and it’s valid to tell others about your experience if you found cause to bail out.

“Feisty” is still probably somewhere in the list, too.

There’s also the Hohokum game soundtrack, which is where I discovered Tycho in the first place. The album includes several different artists, all of a complementary vibe. It’s a good time. (As is the game!)

Marvel movies: *don’t visualize Friday because it isn’t necessary*

The point is that we don’t have the something else. Games are constantly forcing me to put up with shit I hate in order to get to the content I actually want, and it’s exhausting to know that developers are making the content I want to spend time with, but are gating it behind Shooty Kicky Punchy Fighty all the damn…

The Last of Us 2 should be a post-apocalyptic Pony Express meets Oregon Trail adventure game. You and your trusty steed navigate ruined infrastructure while dodging the occasional fungus zombie, combat being optional in this fantasy of mine, all to deliver some small innocuous package from one bombed-out part of the…

On the one hand: If true, that’s a disappointing addition to several other disappointing things where Joss is concerned, and it ought to be addressed.

Oh, people, stop. Self-centered spoilerphobes screaming about how no one is allowed to discuss anything of substance in any story because you haven’t bothered to catch up yet make it impossible to talk at all, which is unfair and stifling to everyone else. Either hurry it up, get off the internet until you do, or…

I’m still so viscerally turned off that they made the biggest point of bringing back Chris Hardwick, but then recast Rhys and apparently skipped the female characters altogether.

Probably because they have no idea on earth how to pronounce Icelandic names properly.

Yep. I’ve had jobs in the past where we had married couples in the office, but they were in separate departments to prevent conflicts of interest.

Microsoft has a real way of waiting for other companies to prove that a product is awesome, come in late, and then fail spectacularly because they’re late and nobody who’s happy with what they already have cares. (Hear that? It’s the dying echoes of the Zune and the Windows Phone and...)

Or recommend / recommend with reservations / don’t recommend, because there’s plenty of opportunity for a game (or whatever else) to land somewhere in the middle.

The major problem with reading reviews of this game is that everyone got subjected to such a stringent review embargo that it hamstrung everyone’s ability to talk about what happens, or critically evaluate the narrative in any actual depth. I’d really, really love to see the professional reviewers who did that first,…

Yeah, in retrospect, that was some bullshit. I understand if trailers don’t match up with the final cut of whatever they’re promoting—things change in edits and all that—and of course early teasers are often one-offs that are more about tone than the actual text. So I’m not automatically going to call foul if there’s…

God, Deakins is good. I love that shot, and the way EVE drifts past all out of focus in the foreground, just shaking her head.