This weekend, I’m going to dive further into A Hat in Time. I just reached “Alpine Skyline,” and I love that it takes the floating-rocks-in-the-sky aesthetic of A Story About My Uncle and adds a Tibetan flair. It’s a huge, open level more reminiscent of Super Mario Odyssey than Super Mario Galaxy; you don’t get kicked…

I think you’re wrong to look at this as just another instance of outrage in video game discourse instead of a potential tipping point in the way gamers react to microtransactions and pay-to-win mechanics in full-priced games. After this and Shadow of War, we may have found the upper limit of bullshit that gamers are…

Good on Drake. People use concerts as an excuse to violate others’ personal boundaries all the time.

Still, the larger point is that Steele is highly respected in the intelligence community and he believes that at least 70 percent of his Trump dossier is accurate. Statistically, that means there’s a very good chance the portion of his investigation that included the pee tape is included in that 70 percent

As a longtime A.V. Clubber, I’m happy that The Takeout has been spun off into it own thing, and I’m excited to see what kind of shenanigans you guys get up to. (Also, any chance I could be ungreyed, please?)

Good to know. I wasn’t expecting a pure stealth game, but it’s nice when the assassination missions feel like actual, y’know, assassination. That feeling has been sorely missing from the series since its debut entry.

Your obligatory reminder that Ben Affleck gropes women. Now you have two reasons not to see this turd!

Burn in hell, rapist.

How are the stealth mechanics in this game compared to previous entries in the series? The essentially non-existent stealth options in previous games kind of put me off the series.

I have trouble exactly articulating my position on this. I think I see good music by terrible artists as a sort of “museum piece” rather than entertainment. I can still appreciate it and think it’s worthy of inclusion on a best-of-the-year list, but I’m going to have trouble enjoying it on a persona level.

I never thought of that song as autobiographical until these allegations broke.

I think we just have to face the fact that expressed political views and predatory behaviour aren’t as correlated as one might want them to be.

Hey Affleck, nobody cares what you think, you repulsive groper.

I think what pisses people off about Nickelback is that they used to be better than they are now. They were never amazing, but at least they tried.

If you didn’t do it, just say you didn’t do it, and leave it at that. Don’t say anything else. Stop digging holes for yourself, George.

At the end of the day, Super Mario Odyssey still has a checklist of Moons and a map for each level, so I’m not sure it’s a checklist and map per se that put you off a game. The problem seems to be that so many of these open-world games have repetitive, shallow gameplay; they don’t make the very acts of travelling…

Actually, he was fortunately caught before he could rape any infants, so he was rightfully charged with conspiracy to commit rape. Thank God it didn’t end up going beyond conspiracy.

Actually, he was thankfully caught before said rape could occur. (Still a disgusting piece of shit, though.)

He’s also a domestic abuser.

It stills blows my mind that an entire Internet media empire was launched on the back of what is essentially animated Halo crackfic.