I call mine Rodimus Prime, by strange coincidence.

You know how sometimes Mark Wahlberg is unbelievably amazing as an actor, just disappearing into the role, and other times he's like a wind-up child's toy in grown-up clothes who wandered on to the set? Guess which Wahlberg showed up for these.

I have no idea; they're being crazy quiet about it all. Upvoted because I agree, though.

It's the discussion format used at Kotaku, Deadspin, Jalopnik, Jezebel, etc. They're just bringing them more firmly into the fold. Still sucks though.

Me too, amigo. Places like this serve the role that I used to do in RL when I was a teenager. Then I got a job, got married, had kids, went back to grad school and turned 40. I still have friends I talk games with, but, sheesh, I don't have the time for a RL hang-out gaming group like this even if I had access to…

I thought there's been a lot more to it than that by now. Like, a lot more. Any mods or AVC-type people want to chime in if we're off the farm on this one?

I'd tell you if I knew, but they haven't been super visible about it and I don't remember what I heard, or where I heard it. I have the idea in my head that it happens in July or something, but that guess is worth less than what you paid for it. You're right though; it's a disappointment for sure.

I mean, I can't say it's surprising. I'm a financial analyst in my day job and a very wild rough guess at their annual budget puts them into six figures very quickly. Ad space just doesn't pay that over the number of people who post here regularly.

Right back at you. I do dearly hope my sons see my love for them—but it cuts close to the bone to read a story like this, and wonder how my son will look back at me when the time comes for them to honestly assess their childhoods to a group of sympathetic ears…

I can't find the comments you're referring to. Any hints on a starting place?

I'll be there a whole lot more in the upcoming future. And yeah, much agreed about losing the old posts. The excellent @disqus_wallflower:disqus over at www.the-solute.com has started turning his posts about The Shield from here into a series of articles just to keep from losing them, and I'm half-inclined to try to…

I don't plan on coming back. I don't mean that as an ultimatum or dramatic exit or anything, I just already have my gaming news sources I like and the biggest reason I stuck around was for the community here. Heck, I don't even play the same games as hardly anyone else here! Everyone's just super chill and…

I do not have that hope, alas. There have been some hard messages sent recently on the point about how small a cross-section of their readership active commenters are.

You seriously didn't know about this? If so, I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you but the end is nigh. I don't remember when it all goes down, but all of this is going away, including old posts. Makes me sad.

I don't really have a ton of time to type today (although @avclub-669e3876ba6dab37e11e5237f2c8017e:disqus 's exceptional post got a reply out of me anyway) but I wanted to ask: where is this moving once AVC goes to Kinja? Are people re-registering and picking up where they left off? I already try to haunt the…

This is amazing. I feel like this deserves a more exalted form of publishing than a post on the comments section of a weekly gaming article.

I think there's something of a mismatch between what the latter two movies of the trilogy delivered and what audience expectations for those movies was. I had several friends go on and on about how much they hated them, and we talked it out at some length. As near as I could tell, it all boiled down to the fact that…

Do you still have any local landmarks around from the shoot? Any other dirt to dish? Either way, that's awesome.

I get the feeling 2F2F's director was in on the joke, seeing as how the main plot of the movie involved sneaking a large amount of money from point A to point B by *driving zillions of insanely-painted cars at insane speeds all over the city*. I thought the basic idea held a certain absurd zest that the movie nicely…

I'm cool with the Cars universe being pretty weird if you think about it, because basically all of my favorite fiction is pretty weird if you stop and think about it. (After all, there's a reason that wizards and magicians were often viewed with fear and distrust, historically.) That said, now that I've read …