I really loved how Portal 2 used dynamic music to communicate the progress you were making with puzzles. Mark Brown has a good video about what he calls “adaptive soundtracks:”

Grocery charity is both the saddest (because why should it be necessary) and most awesome (because most liberating) charity in the world. I was once at T&T market in Vancouver, and short like 90 cents on my bill at the store, and I was desperate for the food, and without another word the bagger leaned over and scanned…

The part about this that bothers me the most is that he’s publicly apologized, and very much seems to not be that person anymore. If we start telling people that there’s no way to ever recover from or atone for their mistakes, they won’t bother trying, and the world will get a whole lot darker.

Those jokes were shitty,…

Am I the only person who struggles with cultural appropriation uproar? I thought different cultures mixing and borrowing from each other was the point of living in a diverse society. Is it reasonable to assume that people of different cultures living together would wall off the ability of their culture being used by…

I somehow made it through that on my first shot with no deaths. But I knew they could die, and I was absolutely white-knuckling my controller through the whole mission. It was a total blast.

A lot of people throwing out a lot of great suggestions, so I’m going to go for a more dark horse candidate for one of my all-time favorites: Transistor!

I don’t like Roseanne. She’s coarse and rough and irritating, and she gets everywhere.

I can’t get over Peele’s current avatar, though. lol

I have never run through an airport to stop a woman I loved from getting on a plane so I could express my feelings for her. In this day and age you would probably be tackled by security.

Speaking of spit takes...

Five years of prison sounds insane for a non-violent, unintentional crime, even if she had a prior conviction.

Yes. Comparing US 7-11 to Japanese 7-11 is not quite as dramatic, but similar to comparing real life Taco Bell and Demolition Man Taco Bell.

This is really beautiful. Black Panther isn’t just an amazing movie. It feels like a correction, a beginning, a chance. It was so wonderful to see all of the kids, especially the little girls, watching the movie.

“Can we stop vilifying women who aren’t doing Times Up well enough?”

She’s not allowed to make political statements. William is president of Bafta. Why should she sit out? Can we stop vilifying women who aren’t doing Times Up well enough?

Just last night I was thinking, as I read various semi-insane reaction pieces to Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, that the need for simplification fantasies is starting to destroy people’s ability to process good stories. There is a growing contingent of the viewing audience that shows up and expects to…