PvZ's an excellent starter tower defense game for kids.

@penzymoog: that reminds me very strongly of an old trad game from the '80s whose name escapes me, that played very much like what you're describing, except a good deal less fun because trad games in the '80s mostly had rules written by crazy people. I only dimly remember it (my age being in the single digits at the…

I can't speak for All Of America, but I can say for certain that there's a strong throughline from Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx to The Matrix that prepared me to appreciate CTHD. I was 18 in 1995, so Rumble pretty much blew our minds, and I graduated college in '99—so I was right in the target demographic for…

Replying as a double-upvote. My boys are 4 years old and 8 months old, so I'm still new at this—but I fervently disagreed with every point the reviewer made about wasting time with Mac and Hope. Okay, Hope's name is a bit on-the-nose—but it always was, from the moment they started Mac's character arc. Everything…

That's not even close to the scale of traffic they're looking for. They've been making it more and more clear that they don't really care about the commenting side of things that much, not because they hate the community but because it just isn't a significant proportion of their total traffic.

Late to the game but this is my issue with a ton of adventure games in general. They look great, but my attitude towards the game itself usually veers quickly towards the attitudes expressed here: https://www.rockpapershotgu…

I don't want to overstate my case there, but I do see a degree of anxiety in that culture that overlaps in interesting ways with what the article was talking about.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Einstein

Interesting article, and one that raises further questions.

Directed by Ferrera, no less! My reaction exactly, on both points.

My first thought was that the caption should read, "And thirty seconds later, the person Ball was watching die mysteriously from an inexplicable case of spontaneous head explosion."

It's funny: watching it, I could see how someone in the writing room could get to where they ended up, but it still felt like a massive miscalculation. On the one hand, B.A. is kind of a one-note (if popular) character and it would be nice to have him do something other than throw guys over a filming camera into a…

I get the logic of casting an actual UFC former light heavyweight champion in the role, but he still needs to be able to, you know, act… Giving B.A. a pacifism/spiritual journey subplot was not a good call either, on that point.

I've read that his role in Heat was a deliberate choice between him and Mann, because they privately decided that the character had a none-too-controlled cocaine habit he was only barely functioning around, that the movie wouldn't otherwise touch. The note made his HOO-AH! approach in Heat make a lot more sense—but…

I think he has a likeable personality as far as his performances go, but he's another line on my long, long list of celebrities I'm glad I don't actually have to spend time around in real life. He sounds like exactly the sort of character his performances lampoon, here and elsewhere.

I'm not disagreeing with you or him, but I'm also not disagreeing with those who say he sounded like an amazingly pretentious tool.

I grew up listening to Spike Jones and his City Slickers, myself.

I've been wondering how Sandler treats his female leads. Say what you will about his movies, but the man has worked with just a murderer's row of talented actresses: Ellen Barkin, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Emily Watson, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Marisa Tomei, Selina Gomez, Jane Seymour, Michelle…

I can't say it better than this guy did: https://scontent.fdet1-2.fn…

The professional ones who know what they're doing, I completely agree. The amateur ones, though, hoo boy. You can get into any kind of trouble with that lot.