The only things worse than drunk people or rich people are drunk rich people.

Bergeron’s take is that there shouldn’t be any political figures on Dancing, a show designed by scientists to make as many people smile as mildly as humanly possible for the longest possible period of time. (An agree-to-disagree “call for civility” point of view that also, weirdly, feels like an unwanted and…

Brock Turner faced legal consequences (albeit insufficient ones), and Brett Kavanaugh endured a very public (albeit deserved) humiliation. I don’t think Perry will face consequences of even that magnitude.

Be that as it may, publicly exposing a man’s genitals without his consent is wrong, regardless of how bad it is relative to doing the same to a woman’s genitals or how gendered the #MeToo movement is.

(I’m a dude so take this with a grain of salt.)

Because I’m cynical, I’m convinced that Katy Perry will face zero consequences for this and it won’t affect her feminist cred in the slightest, just like how Mariah Carey faced zero consequences for sexually harassing and verbally abusing her (now former) security guard.

I finished Judgment. It took me 55 hours!

I’ve been playing Heaven’s Vault, and it’s a really neat experience so far. The premise: you’re on a quest to find out what happened to your doctoral supervisor’s colleague while also deciphering an ancient language. It has a really neat “Arab-futurist” aesthetic, and it’s absolutely chock-full of dialogue. (There, I…

It’s crazy but true that video game discourse is being held hostage by a couple of hundred dipshits on Twitter and 8chan. Every time anybody wants to make a point, bigots and trolls swoop in and ruin it for the rest of us, and then we have to waste our time and energy writing form responses decrying threats and…

Sounds like this was Alexi Hawley’s fuck-up. He was also an executive producer on Castle, by the way. (Fillion is probably an asshole regardless, though.)

Oof yeah, that sounds like too much work. I haven’t even sold a single painting yet. I’m just going to do the finale. It doesn’t sound like I’d be missing too much anyway. (I already have Voluptuous Woman from the underground casino.)

I mostly liked this finale, but two things bugged me:

The second one was by far the hardest. I figured out the third in about 30 seconds.

Thanks for the advice! I actually knew the pitch order was fixed; I’m just too lazy to sit there with a pen and paper. This is why I also solved all the mystery author’s riddles in my head.

But it’s also a symptom of the degree to which gaming is still in its infancy that these attempts so often generate a disjuncture between ideas and delivery.

Papa Roach is clowning on the President? What the fuck even is this timeline?

Does self-murder count as murder?

I wasn’t going to get Three Houses - I don’t know if I want to sink my limited temporal resources into another 60-hour JRPG (albeit one with tactical combat) - but the across-the-board positive reviews are getting me to reconsider.

Interestingly, Elsinore sounds a lot like the upcoming 12 Minutes, and there are elements of The Sexy Brutale in there as well. A lot of games seem to be playing around with time loops lately.

After watching this episode, all I can say is: give Gina Rodriguez all of the Emmys. ALL OF THEM.