I think it's becoming increasingly apparent how far ahead of its time Myst was—not in terms of mechanics, necessarily, but in terms of maturity and seriousness and immersion. I played it as a kid and it was the first time I felt like I was playing a game for adults. Suddenly, so many other games just seemed frivolous.…

I was right, and also the Dancer of the Boreal Valley is some bullshit. No matter, she's dead now. Can't wait to see what's next.

The best way to play Journey, in my opinion, is to block out 4-5 hours of your day and just do it in a single go. It has a great emotional arc that I think is heightened by being uninterrupted—especially given the mechanics of the embedded multiplayer feature.

The great Dark Souls 3. Last night I killed Aldrich, meaning that I've now got all the Lords of Cinder back on their thrones except Lothric. No idea what I'm supposed to do next, so I'm probably just going to spend some time playing back through the areas I've cleared and seeing if I've missed anything. Feel free to…

It's interesting that you say that, because I always cite T2 and Aliens as examples of sequels that succeeded by not attempting to replicate the experience of the originals. Aliens in particular is basically in a different genre of film from Alien.

One great thing I observed about Italian culture is that the Italians will flat-out not tolerate mediocre food. What we would consider outstanding cuisine in the U.S. is the bare minimum of quality that an Italian will accept. Every dinner has to be amazing.

You could buy forty-eight metal rat/aardvark figurines.

Man, it seems like the 9/11 decorations go up earlier every year.

Totally agree, I've always thought that was a weird and archaic naming convention. For whatever reason, sitcoms have some of the most uninspired titles of any genre of television. A lot of them just feel really nonspecific, like they would work fine as the title for almost any show.

This is a weird and possibly embarrassing question, but I've been wondering about this for years and waiting on a situation where it would would seem relevant to the conversation at hand, and I have a feeling that this is as close as I'm ever going to get.

This actually doesn't look too bad for what it is. Seems like there's more to it than just mindless screen-tapping, and it would be cool to be able to bust out a little Mario on my phone every now and then.

Trying to decide between 3 and World is like trying to decide between Revolver and Rubber Soul. I personally give the edge to 3, but a lot of that is because it came first and brought more new ideas to the table, not necessarily because it's objectively better. I think World is able to reach a little higher because…

Well, the mini-NES is coming out in a couple of months. That's basically the 30 most essential NES games in one package.

What? I love flaming saganaki! That shit is straight fire on a pita wedge.

It's more of a dine-in pizza place than fast food, but do they have Mellow Mushroom outside of the South? If you've never had it, it's like a hippie-themed pizza restaurant where all the walls are covered in these Grateful Dead-esque murals of anthropomorphic mushrooms making pizzas while all looking high as shit. And…

Wow, that's a big failure right out of the gate on this one. Sub-amateur mistake.

PUT. THE CANDLE. BACK.

This is one of those movies where I feel like if I made it, it would be good, but the actual movie that comes out won't be good.

A strong contender for the funniest movie ever made.

Five Guys screwed over again. Also, I just remembered, what about Dairy Queen's Oreo Blizzard? That's legendary.