Yeah, I heard that was good and I've been meaning to check it out.

VVVVVV is definitely the most outstanding entry in that wave of minimalist platformers that included Super Meat Boy and Thomas Was Alone. No fat whatsoever on that game, every single part of it is fun and it never really repeats itself.

It was half off on Steam last week and I'm kicking myself for not pulling the trigger and getting it. I don't usually go for those types of games, but any game where you get to shoot up the KKK is probably worth at least $30 to me.

I have a bad feeling that RDR2 will succumb to the same bloat and nastiness that dragged down GTAV. I hope not, though, because the original is one of my favorite games.

It also takes a good bit of inspiration from the fondly remembered DuckTales game on NES. But yes, it's an astonishingly fun game.

I'm trying to get active on the Gameological Steam group, so I'm getting back into Stardew Valley. Picked it up last night for the first time in over a month, and after a quick scan of my inventory, I was able to jump right back into it—tending my animals and winter garden, dropping off some hardwood with Robin the…

I liked it when I played it, but I can't remember a single thing about it. Like, not one dungeon, not one boss, not one item outside of the usual shit that you always get. It's the only Zelda game that I have basically no recollection of.

He's not that bad. I think The Ring is the most overrated horror movie of the past 20 years or so, but I think Verbinski did more with it than a lot of folks would have. Pirates of the Caribbean is plenty entertaining in that old-school Fun Spielberg type of way, when it really had no business being even remotely…

There was a lot of stylistic overlap between Bay movies and Bruckheimer productions at the time, so it's a pretty easy mistake to make.

Well, it's more about the most important than it is about the best. The Bay style was so heavily copied in the ensuing years that you almost have to go with it. Although if you're going to do The Rock next week anyway, I dunno, there were definitely a lot of better movies in 95.

Interestingly, the John Wick movies seem almost a reaction against the style of action cinema that Bay established, with terrifically composed shots, devoid of frenetic editing, where you can clearly see all the action no matter how fast and furious it gets. That mirrored installation sequence is almost showing off—a…

I think this is one of the best bits The Daily Show ever did. The funniest part is the white dude on the street visibly mulling over his answer before he gives it.

Man, I'm telling you, I could take at least three more of these Wick movies. I loved Chapter 2 when I saw it, but as I think back on it more deeply I just keep realizing how masterful it actually is. At one level, it's the dumbest movie I've ever seen in my life, but it's just so confident about what it wants to be…

Old Shep had one of the best post-press conference segments the other week, where he was just visibly flabbergasted that Trump could be so full of shit.

The People Under the Stairs!

I like going to movies by myself because (and this is going to reveal the depths of my introversion) it's one of the few activities you can do in public where you can be relatively assured that nobody will try to talk to you.

I'm pretty much done with these types of games. I'll get RDR 2, but I have a sneaking suspicion it's going to be indulgent and underwhelming.

"Even without the cartoon mascot and pastel color palette, you can tell it’s a fun game because a character has its leg up in the air. A leg more than 30 degrees off the ground = fun. Below 30 degrees = serious."

That's a pretty serious accusation, and simply being about the same topic isn't plagiarism. I don't think you should say stuff like that without evidence.

I heard he called Malcolm Turnbull a spoony bard.