Yes! That's exactly what I'm envisioning.

With me, I never want to watch Mad Men, but when I do I'm glad I did. I am about two seasons behind, but when I finally run out of everything else to watch and start catching up I'll probably enjoy it. At least that's how it was last time.

My money is on Pete, but *FULL DISCLOSURE* I am about 2 seasons behind.

All I want to know is who is going to jump off the building. Someone has to jump off a building, right?

This might have been a better thread for my Mike Watt story above! I'm actually not a huge Minutemen fan but I am a tremendous fan of Mike Watt, Person.

I interviewed Mike Watt once, about 10 years ago, for my local paper's Arts page. With most bigger bands I'd get 10 or 15 minutes tops, and with smaller bands I'd get more time but they didn't always have much to say. Watt talked to me for like two hours, and came across in that time as one of the most gregarious,…

There was one glorious summer when I convinced my mom to let me put a TV in my room, and I played Final Fantasy III (at the time), Chrono Trigger, and Earthbound all summer. I could use another summer like that…

It's hard to pick even just a few, given that I've spent more time playing video games than almost anything else over the last… geez.. 25 years. So I'll give a broad answer: the years I spent playing games with my little sister, and the (later) years I've spent playing games with my kids — it has never felt like a…

Me too. I have watched enough well-done gritty police procedurals for a lifetime.

I have never suffered near-death-by-impaling-my-tender-foot on a Minecraft brick. Why do Legos hurt so much??

Great comment. I'm a librarian and I deal with this stuff every day. The "digital divide" has gotten wider, not narrower, over the last few years. Everyone continually makes information tasks (everything from job applications, FAFSAs, unemployment applications, medical information, etc.) "easier" by putting them…

This is a great topic. I have like a million kids* and we all play video games all the time. To me the biggest difference is the total ubiquity and availability of games (which extends to other media as well). When I was a kid it was really hard to get access to video games. You had to find a friend with a console,…

After 6+ months away from Dark Souls, I finally was able to summon someone to beat NG+ Ornstein & Smough for me. Thanks, Internet person! My problem now is that I can't really beat anything else. I've made multiple attempts at Seath the Scaleless, the Bed of Chaos, Dark Gwyndolin… I can't even beat the Centipede…

I'm glad I'm not the only depressing killjoy on the internet today. Colbert's donation is great! It's a good thing! But it's a band-aid — it won't stop the bleeding.
Also, I know some Tea Party folks who will seize on this as an example of the free market in action. "See, if we slash government funding for schools, the…

Hey, as a library administrator, I… okay, you have a point.

Parents? In a couple years I'll be telling my kids about the AV Club!

This is the best. "Now you have to imagine your parents having sex."

That music! Chrono Trigger had a lot of really interesting, non-formulaic boss battles. Some played for laughs (Ozzy), some for terrible, terrible tears (robot factory).

Other than the obvious answer (Kefka), I remember the first time I fought Meta Ridley in Metroid Prime. After defeating plain ol' Ridley in Super Metroid so many times, I wasn't prepared for the terror and intensity of seeing him up close in first-person!

HP/MP Restored! …But you're still hungry.