The in-depth interview/harsh review is a longstanding AV Club tradition! All the more important to maintain, now that Kinja has made a mockery of firsties.

So far I think my fav 2019 game has been Persona Q2, like a lot of the Persona spinoffs it’s a good excuse just to hang out with these characters again. Secret best crossover in the game is the combo of P3, P3P, P4, and P5's singers all together.

The only bomb was Dumbo, which even if it had been received well seemed like a pretty big mismatch of director to content.

I mean, that's pretty realistic.

‘’It is disingenuous to dismiss identity-based criticism as a claim...’’

I think we need to connect the dots and remember that everyone adored Emilia after season 1 but started being critical in season 2, when we now know that she was recovering from brain surgery.

SMILF City?

You get a star for “Lesser Belushi.”

If this takes over, every game will be only licensed to you for a period of time rather than being owned by you (and subject to disappearing at any time, like P.T. but worse), you’ll be beholden to whatever price the company wants to charge as opposed to being able to buy used copies or having competition from…

The big question I have with Stadia is Google being a company that lives on selling their user’s data, what is it about their gaming solution that makes it ties into their “raison d’être”? No company develop something as big as this if it is not tied into something they plan on profiting big time from.

1. Technically I own many of my games now. I tend not to buy through Steam.

First, it’s a very hard sell to get me to go from owning my game to streaming a game. It requires me to shift how I think of my game playing, and to be okay with a game permanently going offline and me having nothing to replay. That’s a step further than Steam removing a game from the storefront, since at least then I…

God I hope not. By design Stravia effectively removes any and all control from the user, where you truly don’t own anything you’d buy off it. What happens when/if Stadia doesn’t perform well enough for Google and closes shop, which could be as short as within the next 5 years, and what will happen to your purchases?

Short answer: no. Long answer: AHAHAHAAHA of course it fucking won’t! It will crash and burn just like every other game streaming service.

I did not. Randall wrote about it from SXSW. This is the full, official review.

I don’t think Hollywood has anything on the Kpop idol farm system.

“Enter the Void” was hard on this non-epileptic.

But clearly people do go to SDCC, hence all the people. Paradox?

He’s a nobody, but he apparently owns, like, eight houses. It’s crazy.