Is this a joke that I don't get?

Dude, I don't know who you're supposed to be, but you are completely insufferable. Every idea you don't agree with is stupid, every person who disagrees with you is an idiot. Give me a break.

Honestly, I think Mortal Kombat is probably the best movie ever to be based off a video game. And that's not to say that it's a good movie, because it isn't, but it's the one video game movie I can think of that seems to have been made by people who were familiar with the source material and actually trying to adapt…

I remember it being fine—not particularly good or memorable, but reasonably entertaining for a 90s comic book movie. The HBO cartoon was a lot better.

I wouldn't call the movie itself a classic, but Friday the 13th Part 3 introduces the classic hockey mask for Jason. So there's that.

I've never seen this show, but my wife is obsessed with it.

Maybe in a couple of decades they'll add "jareeraw," if I can get it to catch on.

FYI, the math and dong stereotypes are widely considered offensive.

Having Trump on is offensive to the audience. The guy is running on a platform of authoritarian fascism, at least when he appears to have a coherent platform at all. He's been going around the country insulting people, inciting bigotry, and aggressively driving down the quality of our already damaged political…

I'm moving from Georgia to New Mexico in a couple of days, so I doubt I'll have a lot of time to play games this weekend. If I do, it'll be short bouts of either Sunless Sea or Papers, Please. I've been at Sunless Sea for a while and it continues to be a really hypnotic, enjoyable game that I can put down for months…

The Falcons might be the most exhausting NFL team to be a fan of—it's not just that they usually aren't very good, it's that they're almost always right on the cusp of being very good but always find a way to fuck it up. And the more it seems like they've finally got it together, the harder they're guaranteed to bomb…

This is sadly accurate. I have a handful of friend who are always bitching about Hillary Clinton, who is quite possibly the most scrutinized politician in American history, getting a "free ride" from the media. And it basically comes down to them being incensed that NPR would be so nakedly partisan as not to speculate…

How can you make an assessment like that based playing a game for less than an hour back in 1993?

The original is a poorly made, deeply offensive classic. Leave it alone.

I don't find that to be the case at all.

Okay, here's my answer to that question: at one level, yes, it's exactly that. As I mentioned in a recent comment, the world of The Witness is more of an interactive art installation than a representation of an authentic fictional place with an underlying narrative.

Honestly, because Doom had shooting. It's seen as a predecessor to the modern AAA shooter, and therefore more of a legitimate game (EDIT: this is ironic, given that the new Doom game is in so many ways a refutation of modern AAA shooter design).

Well, he probably heard about your long history of throwing your body against the gears of the proverbial machine and figured you were already doing more than enough.

Sure, but the freedom to disagree doesn't mean freedom from being wrong. He does have the right to do whatever he wants during the National Anthem, and his protest inconveniences no one. I can't think of a less objectionable, more materially inconsequential form of protest. Wow, once a week you might briefly see a guy…

Duh, that's the whole point of keeping the discussion focused on whether or not we agree with his methods.