I’ve read these articles on this site before and that particular suggestion has always struck me as so fucking weird. I’m like you, I feel like it’s part of the experience. The only example that’s similar in my life is when my dad would buy me a new PC back in the 90s, but in that case setting them up was more complex…

I don’t know that I understand the commentary. This kind of thing is pretty standard in collecting. I mean sure, the ramen logo makes it a little dorkier than, say, a carded A New Hope Darth Vader with two lightsabers but it’s essentially the same idea. A limited run thing (in this case intentional) that’s far more…

Games journalists do this occasionally, and it’s always kind of baffling. I can’t remember the last game where I noticed it, but my friend and I used to talk about it pretty frequently. They’d hype up a game to this insane level, everyone else looks and it and wonders what the fuck they’re talking about, and then it…

I’m all for the wait-and-see approach. I remember nerds taking a giant dump all over Halle Berry’s X-Men movie look and RDJ’s Iron Man casting, so I think we can all chill out.

They are frustrating me a little bit with all the cockteases. They bring up the multiverse in Far From Home, but nope, Mysterio was just lying when he said he was from another world. They have Fox Quicksilver show up in WandaVision, but nope, just Ralph Bohner. They bring all these multiverse characters into this…

For me though you just described the Dominion War in Deep Space Nine, minus the biology vs. technology stuff and obviously the Force. I think that’s the issue I have with it. The premise just never felt like Star Wars to me. There were a couple of standalone novels that struck me that way too, one of them being The…

I’m guessing that since every NPC was some variation of white for a decade and a half plus, it gets pretty obvious when non-white ones start popping up in any significant number. I don’t know if it’s that important who they are, just that the city ain’t as white as it used to be.

Still, its impossible to ignore the issue of “Where did they come from?”

Bloodline was the last Star Wars novel I truly loved and could absolutely not put down. I liked Master and Apprentice a lot as well. Haven’t read any of the others yet.

Yeah I don’t know why people keep saying it’s maybe C-3PO unless they’re not reading that it’s set in the High Republic era. It would be quite a retcon to the prequels to have C-3PO built any time before Anakin did it in TPM. Unless they go for something cheesy like C-3PO’s “personality chip” or something existing in…

Shenmue 1 cured me of ever wanting to play Shenmue.

Is that the Yuuzhan Vong or whatever? I never read any of the later stuff from the EU, but I was there from the beginning with the Zahn trilogy and the Jedi Academy Trilogy and the rest. A distinct mixed bag if ever there was one.

Single All The Way.

Ohhhhhhh right. Yes I’ve heard of that before, but always completely spelled out. Yikes.

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I loved both games but I was under the impression that they were, relatively speaking, on the lower selling spectrum and while being well-received were not considered particularly revolutionary. Did I miss something? It’s anecdotal, but always the feeling I got regarding Titanfall. I would be happy to be mistaken…

The last time I sold on CL was maybe 7 years ago and we met at a Starbucks and I was selling my old iPhone. We had chatted via text and he seemed like a nice guy even when I met him in person, but he pulled the “Hey, will you take $xxx for it” even though we’d discussed the price previously. I was nice and let him get…

He wasn’t necessarily a scalper. Maybe he was just selling his PS5. There’s a picture of a muddy PS5 in the article, so either he took it out of the box to prove to the guy it was real or there was no box to begin with.

I live right across the street from an arcade bar in North Hollywood. Different business model than these, obviously, but I’d be heartbroken if it closed. It’s sad to think about all the hours I spent at arcades during the Street Fighter 2 era and then have to face the fact that they’re all gone now.

Just for a second when I read your preface I was thinking you were advocating a Mass Effect TV series helmed by Benioff and Weiss.