That’s no matter, because the first and third games are head-and-shoulders above the second.

I strongly disagree. In terms of gameplay, I think Bioshock 2 is the best. The first game has a better story, sort of, but is kind of rough around the edges in terms of gameplay. People have affection for the setting more than…

FLCL was one I fully expected to be on the list. I know lots of people that really like it but don’t like much other anime.

This list is limited to TV shows, and I think Studio Ghibli has only made one series, which got mixed reviews.

Kikaider and Last Exile. Both are superb.

Detective Conan/Case Closed and Lupin the Third are also both entertaining and fun romps.

That makes a little more sense, since I don’t think Naughty Dog’s games are really all that interactive in a fun way. I couldn’t even get through The Last of Us, it was the same cover shooting gameplay interspliced with grimdark post-apocalypse the entire way through.

I’m totally with you on this. How could your entire enjoyment of something rest on not having a twist spoiled? Especially a video game, which is such an active form of entertainment. Even if you DID know spoilers, if the story’s good, it won’t make a huge difference, right? Refusing to play a game because of leak is…

Tsunamis caused by earthquakes get most of the attention, and they’re certainly capable of widespread destruction. But tsunamis caused by landslides are the ones that can produce the really high waves. It’s all about water displacement. It takes an absolutely enormous earthquake— and the right kind of fault and…

Does it get significantly better after the first episode? I straight up hated the first episode. Thin on jokes, the emotional moments failed to land, no likable characters (least of all the protagonist), and the sci-fi world building was waaaaay too smarmy, wink wink nudge nudge.

You mean you would run through the... National Mall? B)

I get worried when a person describes themselves or their work as “unapologetically leftist.” Not because I’m scared of socialism or anything, but I’m just so used to (usually cishet) white leftists viewing everything through class and class alone, to the point that they end up perpetuating other systemic forms of…

Part of the issue with Amazon is how utterly essential they have become to living your life in this country. Same thing with Wal-Mart. Capitalism keeps a lot of us in this constant treadmill of consuming to keep everything from falling apart, as is evident with the effects of the coronavirus quarantines.

All that to…

That hasn’t really worked out for him either.

Just donate your money directly to a relief organization and stop promoting and supporting animal cruelty.

Pass on Night in the Woods. Its central themes boil down to ignorant, class-reductionist garbage and multiple people who worked on the game are garbage people. One of them was a sexual assaulter and another one organized a harassment campaign on Twitter against a trans woman who wrote a thoughtful critique of the game…

I thought we had all figured out that the basis for the “pivot to video” was BS stats and no one actually wants articles to be videos.

All of this comment, definitely. But even saying things are in a “balance” is a relative term, because in reality it’s constantly going back and forth and sideways.

Ultimately, I just hate how people think of the Earth or ecosystems as being sentient organisms that have an ideal state of being. There is no such thing.…

I hope every single one of those employees calls Kotick from a random number and tells him he’s a piece of shit.

Agreed, it doesn’t specifically argue against white saviorism and uses the fundamentally racist “going native” trope. But it is also very critical of colonialism and its effect on indigenous people and the environment.

I think it’s much more like Lawrence of Arabia.

Nintendo really just threw ice cold water on what was the hottest thing in the country for a couple weeks. I really hope they’re paying attention to how poorly this is going over.