I wonder that about a lot of games.

Whoops aaaaaaand whoops.

That’s about how I remember it. My other vague recollection is that he’s also surprisingly boring.

I haven’t played FFIV since it was still cool to call it FFII, so my memory may be fuzzy, but wasn’t Kain kind of the worst? Then again, it’s been reported that some parents have named their sons Theon, so...

Yeah, I know. Those people are wrong, as you know.

I actually had this same argument IRL a few weeks ago. Nobody won there, either. (Especially not the third person who hadn’t seen the movie and was subjected to the argument.)

Has nobody mentioned Ides of March yet? Decent, boring political scandal movie ruined by Ryan Gosling’s intense boringness. He should make a movie with Timothy Oliphant called Sticks Up Our Asses.

I dunno, some of Burneko’s best columns are hating on blandly attractive white dudes. His Martin O’Malley takedown is still the best.

Countercounterpoint: he isn’t, and their not!

Perfect. The only thing it’s missing is an unnecessary scene of Ryan Gosling beating the shit out of someone.

Drive is awful. It’s a movie with Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Brian Cranston, and Christina Hendricks, yet the nicest thing I can say about it is that it made it pretty funny when a minivan commercial used the Real Human Being song. I guess also Oscar Isaac was good? That’s it, I’m out of nice things to say about it.

Definitions that have 35-year-olds as millennials are as bullshit as Ryan Gosling. If you didn’t have social media by the time you were in college, you’re not a millennial. Why is this so hard to get?

Kids today.

Interesting. I’ve heard good things about both of them - they’re on my (far too long) list of games to get. And I don’t mean to put any of them down. I liked This War of Mine and really appreciated what it was doing, and I enjoy Darkest Dungeon and Civ and Diablo (finally bought DIII!) and a bunch of other…

Right, and he previewed the scenario that actually unfolded: correlated polling errors in key blue-leaning states that tipped just enough EVs to Trump. He also was clear in the days before the election that the ongoing trend was toward Trump and that if you weighted that trend more heavily in your predictions Trump…

After! Also after he was the only prognosticator to engage in a thorough, public examination of how he got it wrong and to adjust his methodology accordingly.

Haven’t played the first two, but here’s a question: does This War of Mine resonate more than Papers Please? For me Papers Please had more of an impact, although I played more of This War of Mine.

I’m both with you and not. I hate Spelunky and think brilliant level design beats procedural generation any day... but I’ve played >350 hours of Binding of Isaac and can’t break the habit. (Not to mention 100+ hours of Spelunky! Despite hating it!) They can be fun and incredibly addictive, and may have more…

Pity. I had the same reaction as MrCaligula.

Fair analysis, although I thought it worked as a contemplation of the whole series in a way I haven’t quite processed - the way a lot of the bosses rise back to try again, some thematic things I’ve now forgotten. But the fact I’ve forgotten them confirms your point that it didn’t do anything new and memorable as DS1…