Bill Oakley recently said in a Talking Simpsons podcast that the songs that are expensive to use doesn’t really correlate with popularity, either. He said a George Michael song would be like $10,000 a second, but an ABBA song could be $500 a second.

I’m sick of Ubisoft trying to do this “ripped from the headlines” bullshit. They handle it with all the care and subtlety of a toddler.

Are you kidding me? That was only a year ago? My brain is just mush now.

Wasn’t Ubisoft working on some Breath of the Wild-esque adventure game? I remember them announcing it years ago. Did that get cancelled?

I think it’s kind of remarkable how TLOU2 and Death Stranding both deal with very similar subject matter and thematic material, but Death Stranding (maybe a bit ironically, for Kojima’s love of film) embraces the video game medium to its fullest to explore those ideas, while TLOU2 tries to ape prestige cinema, which…

I am one hundred percent in agreement with this. I think Cards Against Humanity can be a very funny and almost educational game if it’s confined to a small group of close friends who all know where the jokes are coming from. But that allows it to be abused so much by people who think the offensive cards ARE the joke,…

This is the same co-founder who had sexual assault allegations, too. The company’s response to that was awful, almost literally saying “We support victims of sexual assault and we should all believe women, but... uh... not these women because they’re totally lying!”

It’s awful when any man commits sexual assault, of…

In any cast, the Curse of the Moon spin-off games are made by a different developer.

The bundle includes a lot of tabletop games and game dev assets and engines, so there’s definitely a lot of different stuff to look through.

I just went and looked at every single one, and they’re all offbeat or intriguing in some way. And I helped a good cause!

Sort of a similar thing, I really enjoy Malibu and Gatorade. It’s delicious. And it helps keep you from getting dehydrated from the alcohol!

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…

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…

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.