The girlfriend's sister tells it to him at the party like a third of the way into the movie. It's in casual conversation but it's there: when asked about Papa Doc, she laughs and says "Clarence? He went to That-Private-School!" in contempt and Rabbit clearly notes it.

It's like hating Dave Matthews Band because that one tool in college listened to nothing else, 24/7. It doesn't make DMB bad music, it just makes a cast-iron association from hell in my mind that no force on earth can overcome.

Guys like this, I'm somehow personally thankful for their work even as I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have anything at all to talk about face-to-face. "So, uhh, working on music stuff?" "Yep." *Sigh*. It's like our relationship, him as creator and me as supportive fan, is basically at the best possible equilibrium…

I like She & Him a lot more than I expected to. On paper, it reminded me of that time Scarlett Johansson covered a bunch of Tom Waits tunes, which, maybe ScarJo did okay and I missed it because the idea itself is like dousing yourself in barbecue sauce and jumping into a junkyard's dog pen. But S&H were surprisingly…

I did the exact same thing, only like two days too late.

I love the setting, and they're clearly working on some big-picture stuff like the Faction Wars options. They are also pretty clearly learning some hard limits about how ambitious they can get, to judge from some of the early promises that were made compared to the game we currently have. It's a ton of fun, but they…

I didn't get into it on two different occasions, and then the third time I tried it it bit me hard. I normally hate multiplayer games and only occasionally go for an action game or sim; despite my love of the boardgame way back in the day, on paper this shouldn't do it for me it all. Who knows.

I was wondering about Lords of the Fallen, actually. Glad to hear some feedback about it.

I was surprised to learn he's only 51. I enjoy his work but I experience it as being from an earlier generation in a lot of ways.

That is some haunting dream imagery there.

Still stuck in this Mechwarrior Online Faction Wars event, and it dominates my game time even though I'm making minimal progress at best, alas. There are all these other games I have a mood to get into, but the haunting promise of my very own Executioner assault mech keeps me farming even as all hope fades…

I can't believe how completely I forgot about the existence of that Assange movie. It's like my brain unmade the memory or something.

Insofar as he had anything to do with it, I liked him in his nefarious turn in whichever Transformers movie he was in. His natural can't-think-of-the-right-synonym-for-blandness did a decent job of standing in for a man masking malevolence.

Same here. Having someone diagnose me as OCD and then explain intrusive thoughts to me was a massive, massive relief. Because of course it's basically impossible to really, really explain to people in real life what intrusive thoughts are without just freaking them the hell out.

I'd read that FOC, for sure. It certainly makes for a different list of games: take Dominions 4, for example, which only has a surface Lovecraftian touch in that you can play as Cthulhu—but digging deeper yields a universe where gods fight for the right to declare "reality." Many of them are no friend to humanity…

Exactly! He deliberately sends his imagery crashing against itself, and anyone who read any pulps would know it was no accident. Same thing with his predecessors in The King In Yellow—it's a study in evocative…not "nonsense," really, so much as "antisense."

Aww, I was hoping to hear what he thought about Portal or The Talos Principle I guess he just doesn't play those games? Weird.

I'm like @Alexander_Had:disqus, I took it the other direction. Lovecraft gives us the Douglas Adams universe played straight: bizarre, capricious and utterly uncaring. There's a note of inescapable despair about the whole thing, including for the devout. After all, the mewling cultists worshiping their undead gods…

With respect, this article didn't dig deeply enough. The elements listed are all elements of "Lovecraftian" horror, sure, but the sine qua non element to it for me has to do with philosophical horror, specifically related to the idea of cosmological absolutes. For the sake of discussion, if the…

"…too upsetting for a nation of people who’ll happily down a couple Doritos Locos Tacos Supreme, three pints of Coke, and a family pack of Flamin’ Hot Funyuns as a post-breakfast snack."