Hah! I love me some video games and that didn't even occur to me once. I am a failed nerd.

"When Penny does offer glimpses into her imagined future, it is often to our chagrin: a feminist enclave named after Anita Sarkeesian, Halo 17, and “a Serbian philosopher who is apparently a big deal right now” (a more debatable reference, though it reads as an invocation of Slavoj Žižek, the Occupy movement’s…

For awhile there it was my second choice for a pseudonym if I'd gone into adult movies. But it could never displace "Rodimus Prime" in my heart no matter how hard it tried.

Me too, point for point. I'm on the internet a fair amount and I seriously thought it was hugs. Welp, so much for that one.

"…but a bit of creative license would have helped brighten the narrative as Mileva’s personality fades with the passion she and Einstein shared."

Can't say I'm surprised, alas. At least Spicoli didn't come off as subtly pompous the way so much of his later Great Acting does.

"Tony Stark can bang women like Rebecca Hall all he wants… and that's the only reason she's in here. What I'm trying to tell you here is, Tony Stark is awesome."

"Italian mafioso Al Pacino orders his volatile son Nicholas Cage to hunt down the eccentric jewel thief Jim Carrey, who finds himself caught up in a three-way war with the Cosa Nostra, the Irish mafia (led by Sean Penn and Daniel Day-Lewis) and a group of corrupt cops led by Denzel Washington and Eddie Redmayne in…

He is capable of great acting, no question. I think my favorite role of his is still Fast Times At Ridgemont High, though, if only because he was still young enough to not take himself so seriously.

It makes a whole hell of a lot more sense to me that she was supposed to be the villain. Her presence was such a weird dead-end in that movie as it was.

Q: (RE: Kate Plays Christine) Did you watch it?

Ooo, I hadn't heard about Mamet's distinction between Acting and Great Acting, but I like it a very lot. Penn is one of my repeat offenders for what I had been calling ACTING!!! anyway, but now I have a better name for it for sure. That's wonderful.

My feelings exactly. He's enough of a narcissist that I don't think chemicals need to enter the equation. But when she started talking about recognizing the sniffles, my ears perked up for sure. She's backpedaled quite a bit, but it stuck in my mind all the same.

Definitely agree that he gets crapped on unfairly. I think he's a solid director and a decent actor—but on the acting, I think he is subtly miscast more often than not. If actors are defined by what they can't do, I haven't figured his weakness out yet, but he's got a big one he stumbles over regularly. Even his…

That was Carrie Fisher's shot at him, too.

That's been doubly odd for me given how many of his supporters are older. He's been this way for decades! You were alive when he was a human bag of methane on David Letterman! What are you people doing?!?

I think some games lend themselves to this kind of viewing more than others, and probably none moreso than Shadow of the Colossus. (Honorable mentions include Knights of the Old Republic 2 and Spec Ops: The Line.) I certainly agree that a video game secret in particular could well be nothing more than dead code…

This is me in Stardew Valley, point for point. I grow things and make things and sell things—oh yeah, and also I guess people get mad if I don't talk to them? I dunno, I'm building over here.

Thank you for giving me the heads-up on that. I agree with your point completely, but have no interest in engaging my game time with something like that. It just doesn't sound fun to me.

Yeah. The SuperPower thing, I had a pretty strong reaction of, "You're kidding, right? You're angry that anyone would try this once, if only to see how you handled it? Because you're yelling at literally everyone who will ever play your game, sooner or later." Like I said, I haven't played this, but it sounds like…