Okay, see, now I might start replying "Trump tweets from the future" the way some people reply The A.V. Club after some particularly pungent line. That's a wonderful image.

I will KILL HIM in SPACE TANTRIC DIAPER and you will LIKE IT because LOOK AT ME.

I'm not remotely convinced that that's true.

Two things:

I suspect TLJ himself would agree with you. I remember reading (…somewhere) that he didn't agree with the director at all on the character, and ended up shrugging and saying, "fine, paycheck." As I remember it, he didn't sound thrilled about any part of making that movie, actually.

Keaton's take on Batman has aged weirdly because we have several other Batmans to compare him to now. As a cold take on a hyperrich orphan who uses his money to beat up criminals one-at-a-time until he dies or they go away, I thought he made some interestingly antisocial choices as an actor.

Even your starting (doomed) planet just oozes visual interest for what little you see of it. That game made me want to go everywhere I could in it from the moment I launched it.

It is, and things like this exist because of it! https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Overall reaction to Halcyon 6? It's been on my watchlist for awhile but I keep coming up with reasons to not just get it already.

FWIW, I had the same reaction to Devil Daggers, too. There's a certain type of "indie-ish" game that occasionally becomes a critical darling that I…well, I don't hate it, but I'm hardly obsessed with it the way some people are.

Stardew Valley: Personal vote is go in blind and then peek at a guide whenever you get bored or frustrated. I could've done some things more efficiently in retrospect, but my early mistakes didn't really cost me in the long run, and they gave my farm a certain flavor that it wouldn't have had if it was drafted from…

Yes, I think there is a peaceful/creative mode here. If so, I blazed right by it. (I'm not familiar with Endless Ocean, alas.)

That gives me some trepidation, since I can't even really "open the game up" yet. I mean, I can get missions and objectives but I can't seem to get to the point where my convoy is more powerful than it was when it started. It's like I'm perpetually treading water in that game.

I flat-out refuse to buy a Civ game until all the expansions are out and I can get them all at once any more. Civ V burned me too badly on that front to sign up for more.

I got a Steam card and raided the sale a bit. I haven't put a ton of time into them yet.

It's funny (not "ha-ha" funny), but I found that the barrage of outrages in that book turned oddly numbing by the end. By the time we got to Tom Cruise poncing about like he had a church to serve as his own private kingdom, I was just reading along like everything it described was perfectly normal. I wonder if…

I doubt any actual study is at the root of a lot of that sort of talk, actually. My boss is pretty heavily into that type of thinking, and one time she looked me in the eye and told me that the tea she was drinking was called "thieves herbs" because thieves wore packets of whatever-was-in-the-tea around their necks…

Sort of like how I feel when someone comes up with some new association with aspartame, to prove that it's all giving us cancer. It might literally be the most researched food additive in existence, guys.

Well said!

I mostly agree. I thought he did all right in BvS:DoJ:WtF by dint of finding the movie's tone and rabidly mirroring it. But for the most part I don't see him as the sort of fists-first glowering action hero that he seems to aim for in some of these movies, and I don't like him in a miserablist mode at all (I haven't…