Or you could also take the non-religious view and not kill living, feeling things just for the fun of it because that’s a giant asshole thing to do. I don’t need to believe in any particular god or afterlife to understand that.

Now that’s what I call... Pom Wonderful.

Either way, he’s retiring to Fort Lauderdale.

You almost have to if you want to get anyone on your side. Everybody can agree that things need to change, but as soon as you say “...and we should all go vegan,” people get deeply, irrationally angry and hyper-defensive. Society and particularly pop culture has conditioned us to hate and resent vegans/vegetarians as…

That actually makes it less baffling when you consider her body was literally built by a deviant chauvinist a-hole who was very specifically looking to design *his* ideal of a “perfect woman.” Miranda looks exactly like what one of those douchebags would hold as their ideal. See also: her natural willingness to follow…

Not invalidate, no, but it does complicate things. I always remember trying to re-watch Silver Hawks when I was in college. I loved that show so much as a kid, but watching as an adult I realized it was utter garbage with no redeeming qualities beyond truly fantastic opening credits. I can still remember how happy I…

I don’t really replay games once I’m “finished” with them. I put that in quotes because sometimes I’ll need to play a game several times when I first get it before I feel like I’m done. I played the Mass Effect like five times, but 1) it was because there felt like so many different ways to play and it felt so…

You’re right; sorry, I misplaced a decimal in my haste. And it’s 9 figures if you include his wife, and look, I know an athlete has a limited window to earn enough to support themselves for life, but again, there is no reason for her to be worth all that either. If you can’t live the rest of your life on a few…

No, not good for him. Nobody should have 100 million dollars to themselves in a country where over 14 million households don’t know where their next meal is coming from. Being worth six figures is immoral - you can live fantastically happily the rest of your life on 10 million and never be able to spend it all. Give…

I was so happy that I played the game before they patched out the ability to glitch Aranea into joining your group for a while. I’ve got a whole Prompto-camera-roll full of pics of her and the gang hanging out together, camping, goofing in town; I’m pretty sure she and Gladio had a thing going on because they’re…

There are specific circumstances in the way the game ends that make this different, and while I certainly never suggested it was the only game or story to create that effect, whatever - you clearly aren’t actually interested in understanding my position and it’s not that important. I was just trying to put something…

It’s a circle for your experience with the game. It ends with Noctis and Luna and the memories of their journey, and when you start again you’re essentially inside the photograph, inside the memory, reliving as they remember. It isn’t about the story itself, but your connection to it and how you experience it based on…

The best part about the opening is that it completes a circle for the game’s story and your experience with it. After you beat it and experience the ending, coming back to the beginning again is so much more powerful and emotional. It’s such a simple, humdrum way to begin a story, but it is perfect for this game and…

To add another suggestion, there’s the fantastic Lore Olympus comic by Rachel Smythe. It’s also a reimagining of Olympus in a modern-day context, and also a Persephone/Hades romance story, but it’s so much better and less trashy than this nonsense, and plays Hades very fairly. In fact, he’s one of the best people in…

Every time. Darren Korb is one of my favorite game composers, their soundtracks are always fantastic, and I want them to have my money. 

The first time I entered Eurydice’s chamber in Hades and heard her singing, I stopped and listened to the whole song. The first time I came back home and heard Orpheus singing a melancholic version of the same song, I stopped again. When I heard them sing together, I just put my controller down and called my wife over…

Finally! A year-ender where I can whole-heartedly agree with every game on the list!

There is no amount of pain he could suffer that would be enough for all the suffering he has caused others. Nor the damage he has done to our democracy and our nation. He is a shameful embarrassment, a monstrous human, and a heartless, craven fiend. “Lower than a snake belly in a tire rut,” as my father used to say.

I think we’re in agreement. Good talk!