Camacho would be a much better president than Trump:

Isn't Idiocracy itself kind of an anti-Trump ad?

I really appreciate his comments about the complexity of Ron Swanson. It would have been very easy to make Ron a one-note character with a straightforward antagonistic relationship toward Leslie. Instead, he was a complicated and thoughtful character who always retained the audience's sympathies even when his personal…

Right now, Clinton could lose every state that could reasonably be deemed a toss-up and still win the election. She has many paths to victory, while Trump essentially has one: beat the polls in every close state and at least one that isn't close. A Trump win would represent possibly the most grievous and widespread…

Is it the Apache attack in Blood Meridian? God, that was so vivid.

Ah, the worst kind of Nazi.

I stopped watching sometime during the second season, when I realized that I didn't really know what the show was about. It just kind of felt like a series of things happening, with no real trajectory. Characters would have these various interpersonal melodramas, but somehow no storyline actually seemed essential to…

Oh, that was so stupid. Pulling a half-assed stunt like that was so obviously not in Breaking Bad's DNA. It was probably the most momentous thing that had happened on the show up to that point—of course they weren't going to fake such a significant event and then take it back in the next season. It would have been…

If he shows up. He's already trying to claim the debate is somehow rigged against him because it's scheduled at the same time as an NFL game (don't ask me to make sense of this). Anyone working in his campaign has to realize that there is no realistic scenario where he helps himself by getting onstage with Hillary…

Honestly, I don't know that he has any beliefs. I kind of think he just says whatever comes into his head without checking to see if he believes it or not. Based on his extremely shallow and inarticulate speaking style, I get the impression that he is not a very deep thinker and probably does not have a particularly…

That's the thing about Trump's failures: they're pretty much all of that nature. From what I understand, he has rarely if ever taken an interest in actually managing any of his ventures. Just throws a bunch of money at something, sticks his name on it, and calls it a day.

I'm not a lawyer, but here's my semi-educated guess as to why that interpretation might not fly: it has never (to my knowledge) been considered an infringement of copyright to describe the plot of a work of fiction. I can read a book, turn right around and give you a summary of the entire plot, and that's perfectly…

"Who Shot Mr. Burns?" worked in part because it was very much aware of how hackneyed this kind of cliffhanger can be and made that part of the joke. I mean, it was an explicit parody of the "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of Dallas, which is pretty much Patient Zero for the season-ending cliffhanger as we know it. But even…

It turned out to be, mercifully, a very short area (with one of the game's easiest bosses). I'm into a couple of the DLC areas now and they are very conspicuously harder than anything I've come across in the base game.

It's crazy to me how much the creators of the show seemed to have been in denial about all the problems that were so obvious to everyone on the outside. That attitude of "We have to perfect the show as we originally conceived it before we can figure out what we need to change" just strikes me as so incredibly…

This is a prime example of why Walking Dead sucks.

Good to know.

I'm destroying Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin. Just got to the Iron Keep this morning, and I imagine it won't be long before I clear that and warp back down to the Black Gulch to continue my descent there. It's weird, DS2 seemed harder than the first game during the early hours but now seems much, much easier.…

Hotline Miami 2 isn't as good as the basically flawless original, but it is severely underrated. Some people also didn't like the more linear level design (i.e., there is more often a clear "right" way to play through level), but I think of it as a big compendium of challenge levels for people who mastered the first…

I have a theory that the DNC put the Khan family onstage not just to highlight the differences between how Trump and Clinton see the world, but specifically to provoke Trump into attacking the family of a deceased veteran (which, of course, he did). If he does consent to a debate—which he may not, who knows—I have…