Ha ha! No kidding, right? I work hard to nail down a tough part of a song, then even just a week or two later that part scrolls up and my fingers do the guitar equivalent of a spit-take.

Oh, I don’t know about that. I think Rocksmith game-ifies the experience pretty well. I agree that sometimes I just want something more mindless and Rock Band is excellent for the visceral feeling without the struggle, and for the songs that are just far too much for my level (curse you, Iron Maiden. You too, Judas…

Another day, another chance to wish for the Brutal Legend sequel that will never come. Sigh.

Rocksmith is just such a great, great game. I love the hell out of Rock Band, still play it all the time, but nothing compares to playing an actual guitar. That feeling when the notes fade away and you’re just playing - it’s almost zen, sometimes. So sweet.

There are so many old RPGs I would replay today if I could turn off random encounters. FF6 is one of my all-time favorite games, but the thought of grinding through all those randos again is just... ugh. I got the Steam release of FF8 and would love to replay it, but the amount of time investment it would require is…

This is just... tiresome. I’m exhausted by a new “#1 Issue” every year or two. I’m frustrated by a series of TPB collections that renumber every couple volumes, making it extremely difficult for outside readers to have any idea what the chronological reading order should be. I’m bored by the constant revamps and…

Schumacher only made one Batman movie, he wasn’t in charge of anything. And no director gets to make choices about merchandising (other than George Lucas back when he owned Lucasfilm). That was 100% the toy companies milking the property. Just like they all milked every property they had in the history of selling junk…

They went with blue for Luke because it was his lightsaber in A New Hope. This way, they can sell you three different Lukes for the three movies. Strike that - four versions for four movies, with TFA. And we’ll get four Hans, four Leias... maybe four Chewies, if they think people will pay for them. They want as many…

Totally agree. I can’t remember for sure (it’s been 15 years), but my memory is that he became a little more scarce at the time. He wasn’t a common commodity anymore; every time he showed up it was an event. Maybe it just felt that way. Maybe it was just that driving a fat motorcycle down to the ring had a way of…

Biker-Taker was the best. You have to look at it in context - the WWE was skewing more toward “real-world” storylines, starting to build a lot of match heat with backstage politics and stuff. They were making the Sports Entertainment angle a central part of their plots, and so it was increasingly more about a bunch of…

The difficult part for me as a writer is knowing how easily they could still talk about these things through metaphor and analogy. If they would allow the world to change based on the existence of these powers, but create new problems (new diseases, new kinds of war, etc.) then you could still tell stories about Thor…

Hey, one good pedantic snipe deserves another, right? But his specific wording was “The first character to call themselves Captain Marvel.” While he almost certainly meant that to read “first Marvel character,” wording matters and this is such a common misperception that I felt like being the nerd that makes sure the…

How is refusing to stay healthy and using the immesurable power at your disposal to then save potentially thousands of other lives (if not billions, considering all the world-ending threats Thor fights) somehow a noble thing? It seems pretty selfish to me.

The publisher famously killed off the first character to be called Captain Marvel after he got cancer from being exposed to chemicals during a fight with a supervillain.

Or once, JUST FREAKING ONCE, correct themselves and say Thawne killed Barry’s mom. They never met the E1 Wells. Just asking.

Ooh, sorry, pal - looks like you accidentally posted on the wrong image. The pic with Celes in it was one up from this one.

Sorry, it sounded like you might need more of this.

At the same time, as just one counter-example, there’s a number of fans who lost interest when it was announced that the game would be multiplayer-only. It’s unknown how many of those will just not bother (or how many might decide to try it after a month or two of seeing how it goes), or how many players who aren’t…

It’s from this era of WW history: