Let's all furrow our brow and solemnly ponder how a heroes become villains while in the background Gorilla Grodd wearing shiny gold armor repeatedly pounds Aquaman into the ground.

I want Breath of the Wild (or any other fantasy game) to tie your coin purse to the HD rumble. When you're broke, I want it to feel like there's just a few small coins rattling around when you shake the controller and have that fill up and feel more dense as you collect money.

I think that's exactly it. Confusing "picky" for "refined".

"Foodie" really seems to be one of those descriptors people apply to themselves for no reason other than they have biological requirement to consume food and they want to feel deliberate and elevated about it.
My wife worked with a woman who described herself as a foodie, but despised almost everything, disdained…

If by "the rest", you mean advocating for the importance of very thing you're on this site to engage with, I don't know if wether that upsets reactionaries or not is really more important.

But at least stone-cold sober while doing it.

Billy Eichner responded: "Um she asked him not to make fun of disabled people and advocated for the freedom of the press and the arts you fucking moron"
Which is a bit harsher that I'd be willing to say (in a public forum, at least) but is exactly to your point. Telling people it's fucked up to get a huge positive…

Headlines do that to us. I've gone in guns blazing to perfectly reasonable articles just because I took umbrage at the headline. And if it's any consolation, I've tentatively tried to show my kid Star Wars -more out of curiosity that cultural imperative- and she couldn't be more indifferent. So while I enjoy your…

Yeah, I'm just fascinated as to why? The super lefty food co-op that I'm a member of and shop at has a sign posted next to a side exit for the parking lot asking people to only make right turns so as not to create too much traffic for the residential neighborhood to the left. A perfectly reasonable, thoughtful request…

I don't know if it's an American thing or a human thing, but we're native contrarians. Any time something is widely praised, those of us who haven't experienced it tend to develop a reaction ranging from, "Eh…" to "fuck you". I think part of the problem is this obligation to greatness; so it's worth emphasizing that…

It's miserable to watch, and I can't envision a scenario where fans would be unequivocally pleased by what they see. Mass Effect, like it's most commonly cited parallel Star Wars, has left the realm of reality into an impossible world of expectation.

It's one of the few pieces of media I've ever watched that actually withstands hype-fatigue. It's a super-fucking-duper show.

I picked up Fallout 4 on Steam sale and so far it's great. I love the all-in retro-futurism alt-history backstory, and I'm a sucker for building settlements. So far encounters remain deadly for me; I tend to get killed early and often -especially that damn Corvega assembly plant mission- but it's a great romp.

If the internet is reliable for anything, it's blowing shit way out of proportion. It's taught me to really appreciate the fine, mild art of polite disagreement.

I wasn't, but these are amazing.

I'd always been so opposed to pro wrestling,mostly, I think, because I was incapable of separating it from the culture of it's dominant fandom. I figured it was solely an extension of the knuckleheads from the small town I grew up in who enjoyed it.
It really did take seeing the sport through a slightly different…

Thanks for your response. All I can really say is this piece was done in good fun and we're reasonable people and parents. I'm sorry it annoyed you so much; I really enjoyed both experiencing my daughter's inexplicable enjoyment of Velvet Underground and writing about it.

My wife and I have found Leonard Cohen makes excellent lullaby's. Nothing like singing the soothing, low-tempo journey to spiritual redemption through having sex with mysterious women of Sisters of Mercy to get the little ones straight to sleep.

She refers to "Default" as her jam.

Speaking solely for myself, this piece is about the small sliver of musical culture shared by our kids and us. No parent has a monopoly on their kids interest and if you have kids you understand it's foolish to try. Outside of us, there's school, friends, extended family, television commercials and greeting cards with…