I agree. I would love to play a choose your own adventure game of the sort that Telltale claims to be on the surface. I realize that having too many branches makes things complicated and expensive to design, but I feel like 2 or 3 major branches per season would be doable.

Eh. It wouldn't if you played Season 3. They eradicate the impact of that choice with a glib shrug in the first 5 minutes.

Choices do matter in Mass Effect. By the time you got to the 3rd game, you had a whole slew of crew mates who may or may not have been there depending on your decisions, different NPCs depending on which cabinet positions you nominated them to, and etc. Telltale has never let your choices have that big of an…

That's ostensibly the appeal, but Telltale rarely gives you enough meaningful options for your choices to make any difference. They used to let your choices last an episode or 2 before retconning them out of existence, but they've gotten more and more lazy about this, to the point that most of the choices in their…

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Well, I guess ultimately it depends on if you enjoy analog scratches more than digital flaws. On the whole, I think analog flaws sound better. Especially since in many cases a song on a CD won't be able to play at all if it has the slightest nic in it. Provided they don't melt, records are much more durable than…

You can buy FLAC of basically any CD in existence (unless out of print, but even then, you can probably find it pirated somewhere), but you are correct that it's typically way cheaper to just get a used CD from Amazon and rip it to FLAC than to buy FLAC directly from an online store. I do that quite a bit.

Several artists have released limited editions on cassette as a gimmick, but I doubt they'd make a comeback in the way that vinyl has. Mainly because they sound like shit.

Yes. Oddly, vinyl has proven to be way more durable.

I don't think so. LPs offer a tangibly different sound, but CDs are just a physical form of the same sound offered in FLAC/mp3/Spotfy. The only thing that CDs add to the experience is inconvenience.

Just to be clear, when I say formula I don't necessarily mean plot (although, they all basically do have the same plot). I mean more style, scope, and where the films are allowed to go creatively. These movies all feel like episodes of a TV show with a similar style and tone to them. Individual directors aren't…

Logan was promising up to the casino. The script after that was kind of a mess, though, leaving the relationship between Logan and his daughter mostly undeveloped, leaving her character arc half-baked, and more or less becoming a generic superhero movie. That film should have been the relationship between Logan and…

The worst part is that a British intelligence official came forward with a claim that the head of a GOP think tank approached him about verifying hacked e-mails at the behest of the Trump campaign. If that's true, that's collusion. But it's getting completely overlooked because everyone's in hysterics over Trump's…

I'd say more that the last half degenerates into a cartoon. I don't think it could be called "nightmarish and futile" when it's so over the top, to the point of suspending physics and plausibility. This is a movie where at one point they drive on the side of a wall during a bank heist. It's way too absurd to make…

I was underwhelmed by the soundtrack. It was kind of mundane and obvious in its choices. Tarrantino is the master of soundtracks and he can pick a song that will stand out by not only being great, but being unexpected. All of Baby Driver's music just seemed to fade into the background for me, though.

Or bluesy jazz album.

Tom Waits is proof that you can make a whole career out of damaged vocal cords. He didn't even get good until he damaged his vocal cords. He always had a distinctive voice, but it was unquestionably smoother in the 1970s. But then a decade of cigarettes and booze caught up with him in the 1980s and shit got real.

Well we probably have different standards for greatness, but I actually like superhero movies. So, to me, the saddest thing about the success of the Marvel universe is that we will never get instances where a director takes a property and does something truly original with it ever again (Like what Nolan did with…

All those films adhere to the same formulas that every Marvel film does. To be great they need to do something original with the property, I think. At best they are above average episodes of an ongoing TV show.

There is no healthy American indie scene anymore. All the indie talent is going straight to TV.