I hate to be that person again, but every time I see phrases as mangled as “whether it was already existed,” I get so damn tired. Could y’all please at least reread your articles before you hit the publish button?

For the record, Erica Lindbeck is a goddamn joy, and she really is a lot of fun as Futaba.

Drunk toast? How about French toast with maple syrup aged in whiskey barrels... *goes off into a brief reverie*

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“PlayStation 5" already has exactly the right meter if you just sing the whole thing. ;)

Yeah. There was a time I was having problems with mail not getting to me, not so much because of theft but because it was getting mis-sorted. I brought a complaint to the post office and practically the first thing I was told was that there’d already been complaints about our carrier.

I’d play the hell out of it, can’t even lie.

I only caught a few runs — I’ll have to check out the uploads on YouTube — but I really enjoyed watching the Hades speedrun, especially since no matter how much GOTTAGOFAST! is the entire idea, they still made a point of catching all the fish, acknowledging the supportive shade in the arena, and petting Cerberus.…

He totally, totally can’t use AOL Instant Messenger anymore.

I’ve yet to have a controller battery fail on me. Analog sticks, on the other hand...

(Seriously, I used to work in building 84. I’m pretty sure that if I’d walked to the edge of the property and thrown a decently made paper airplane really, really hard, I could’ve hit Nintendo’s building.)

Microsoft: *proposes buying Nintendo*
Nintendo: *laughs uproariously*
Microsoft: *slinks back across 520, sits in office, sulks*
Nintendo’s laughter: *continues to echo across Redmond for hours and hours and hours*

He made the numbers go up.

I did much the same. I just sat there and listened to the two of them, enraptured, and thinking, ‘This is going to mess up my completion time for this game and I don’t even care.”

This is a good list.

...film film?

He’s more sad than he is cool

One of the very first clips of this game that I saw centered on an unconscious, nude woman, rendering her a literal object, while the game seemed to be yelling in my face, “Boobs. BOOBS! LOOK. Look at how DARING we are being. Are you not shocked?!”

Stephen Totilo: The Last of Us Part 2 

Funny how you start by saying there’s no purpose to the awards, and then you...state the purpose to the awards.