More interesting to me is our tendency to use our dominant hand when playing joystick-only games like Pac-Man or Q*Bert, while most every game that includes buttons puts the joystick in our non-dominant hand (at least for right-handed players; I realize few games after the early eighties gave lefties an option).

Admit it, Professor Oak. You’re just throwing multiple existing pokemon into a transmat to see what kind of Brundlefly comes out on the other end, and then passing off the unfortunate souls that survive the process as “new pokemon”. That’s not science, Professor, it’s mad science!

I’m with you on not being an uber-Zelda fan. The early games are too obtuse for me, and most of the later games are too hand-holdy. In fact, the only games in the series I’ve finished are A Link to the Past and Link’s Awakening. Awakening is actually my favorite because despite its brevity (the original, anyway),…

Ermagerrd a remastered Wart (er, Frog King)! I wish he’d return to the Mario series in some capacity, but this is just one more reason to be excited about this!

Wow, so much great stuff there! ...So of course I’m going to complain that Ace Attorney 2 and 3 aren’t.

The Lion King’s “Can’t Wait to be King” level put a hole in the wall of my childhood bedroom. Okay, I suppose in a sense, I’m responsible, in that I kicked it in with my foot in anger over that cheerfully cruel stage, but I still blame the game for cheating.

Ninja Gaiden, stage 6-2 is my personal hell:

Oh god, THIS stage. I remember countless plays of this stage (and countless game over screens) playing with my cousin. Nothing to do but hug the walls and bounce on your slowly rising bubbles, just hoping one of you can make it to the top without getting hit with a laser.

I got through the TMNT dam stage fairly easily, but there was this one jump in this one sewer in the next stage that I could never clear. The low ceiling made sure anything short of a pixel perfect jump would send you into the water below (which is a problem for turtles because ???).

My go-to is to slice up a potato skin-on (thick-cut, skinny-cut, round slices, whatever I’m feeling), toss them in olive oil with sea salt and black pepper and/or rosemary, and then throw them in the oven for twenty minutes or so. You can get a semi-decent outer crispness on them if you time it right, but it will…

I’ll go a step further and say that I do love In-N-Out’s fries. I actually thought that was a consensus opinion, if not a wide one. Never had them wellie style, though. I’ll have to try them when Colorado finally gets its first location... at the end of the two longest years of my life.

Wait, is this an episode of U Talkin’ U2 To Me?

I agree that the contrived circumstances leading up to the finale didn’t work in the show’s favor. It does feel like the core characters all fell A-backward into their happy endings.

I think we’re missing the real question here, which is why did these teenage ne’er-do-wells use a film camera in the first place? Because if the pictures were digital and instantly sharable, the unprocessed film couldn’t be used as a MacGuffin, that’s why. Seems like the clunkiest tech-neutralizing plot device since…

I haven’t seen Man of Steel since it was in theaters, but I still remember the numb and somewhat haunted feeling I had upon walking back to my car after it had ended. I knew Superman had won and the planet was saved, but it was the unimaginable devastation that’s stayed with me. I know the collateral damage in The…

It’s no less deserving of the nod than Vice or Bohemian Rhapsody, but Spider-verse and Heriditary were more deserving than all of em’.

I couldn’t blame Native Americans for wishing they had built a wall sometime during the 15th century.

I can’t wait to hear what hay the Doughboys are going to make from this story. Personally, I hope they recreate the meal for themselves (in one sitting, at least one burger, fish sandwich, fries, salad, and slice of pizza) and rate it on a scale of 1-5 Orange Buffoons.

I can only speak from my own experience, but I think your concerns about first-time watchers aren’t entirely founded.

Of course, Vonnegut accomplished much in his lifetime, but let’s focus on the message here.