I wonder how much of this was influenced by watching Hollywood turn Force Majeure into Downhill. From the review and your comment it sounds like this movie is much more a traditional movie comedy, but still more fucked up and weird than anything starring Will Ferrell. 

I hope the clip of him playing back old clips using trans people as a hack joke makes it around online. I’m never gonna get an Apple TV+ account but I’m happy to hear that at least one member of the comedic establishment is willing to admit to making a mistake when the default posture has been to double down in the…

If this was an opportunity to watch the 50mb discord version legally on a big screen I'd buy 3 tickets. 

Yay! I’m still sad that landing right at the start of covid seemed to kill any chances of Medical Police season 2. So at least this is one piece of great news in a bleak time. 

I’m oddly excited about this, even though it’s obviously not half as smart as it wants or needs to be. There is a burning need within me to understand what the fuck “CGI surgery” involves  and the mention of body horror in the review makes me hopeful the movie at least somewhat delivers. It might not be the Roger…

He’ll always be Todd to me. So make that TWO of the decade’s most beloved series. I think he’s going to do just fine either in Hollywood or whatever TikTok derived social media slurry that ends up consuming Hollywood.

The review is pretty explicitly not trying to start a boycott:

You’re right, it doesn’t just forbid people from saying the word gay. It forbids them from talking about sexual orientation in an age inappropriate way. The language is so vague about what that means that yes it will silence LGBTQ teachers, students and families of either for fear of provoking a lawsuit.

NintendoLife had a review today, and they also posted an article about Metroid Dread emulation:

Why didn’t Kotaku get a review code? Is this an ominous sign? 

Dragon Quest XI? It seems pretty universally loved even by some people who don’t usually play turn based JRPGs to the point it’s kind of a cliche when watching Youtube coverage of the game. Though Dragon Quest and its spinoffs do kind of feel like their own separate thing from the rest of Square Enix even if we’re…

Double XP’s the best take I’ve seen based on my own experience playing Elden Ring alongside some friends who have beaten every past Souls-like, maybe multiple times. It seems like a lot of the difficulty and obtusely delivered information is about delivering that Zelda 1 experience where the game is just as much about…

I think it depends what you’re looking for - it’s my favorite of the series for its all killer no filler pacing, deeply emotional story and rotating cast of characters. But all that means it’s missing some of the exploration and quirky tone that makes Mother 2/Earthbound so beloved and it’s totally valid to prefer…

There’s also Cadence of Hyrule! That’s gotta count at least a little bit for being frickin sweet.

I love Star Trek AND Star Wars, but I love the most Party Down and the Roman vibes I’m getting from the comment section pedantry on whether Star Wars is scifi or not.

Adding my tier list to the pile here too, including spinoffs I’ve played:

I’m just saying, I remember when Gen IV/V were new, and The Discourse was the original 15o were the best and that the series was being too repetitive of past glories without anything new except for new Pokemon. Now it’s the same narrative, it’s just the DS games are the classics and now the complaint is the new games…

AV Club readers only care about the sweet Laurel Canyon sounds of Dawes.

I imagine that racing game pileup probably had to do with the external developers behind each one. F-Zero GX was developed by Sega and had a shiny ass arcade machine version that could take your Gamecube memory card. So I imagine a lot of when that released had to do with Sega’s own timelines around producing and…

It’s pretty good, and at least better than Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, which is inexplicably #45. Here it’s mainly remembered as one of the most forgettable Kirby games, but I guess over there it’s remembered as the best one?