From what I could tell, it's a stimulant buzz pretty similar to nicotine.

You've cracked the code: The A.V. Club is written entirely via exquisite corpse.

Even better, there's an exactly-precise definition!

Headlines are sometimes the product of multiple people collaborating on an article, and sometimes errors slip in that way. That being said, I'm the one with my name on the piece, and I'm the one who hit publish, so it is indeed my bad.

There's a difference between providing calories, and acting as a stimulant or depressive, which actively alter brain function.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Affecting the brain. Alcohol and tobacco are both psychoactive substances, as are any number of more illicit drugs.

The omnipresent, flashback-heavy narration would be a dead giveaway.

I know I'm four hours after the fact, but: What clan?

Frank's is one of those songs, like "Everything You Know Is Wrong," where they were my first exposure to music that even sounded like R.E.M. or TMBG. It's like the "heard the Weird Al version first" thing, but for whole genres of music.

If it makes you feel better, the evidence of my sleep-deprived idiocy will live forever in the article's URL.

To be clear, he only toured on Ten.

Thanks for pointing this out. Updating.

She was literally posting in a hashtag about the million or so factors that make it difficult, painful, and sometimes outright impossible for women to report.

There's many a Newswire that's been written to Carpenter's "Escape From New York" theme.

The only director's cut of Dark City you need is the one where you mute the narration for the first minute or so.

LMM is a fan of the podcast My Brother, My Brother And Me. They're fans of Scott Bakula. When Griffin McElroy announced that he and his wife were having a baby, Miranda got Bakula to record a congratulations message for them.

The stakes in Horde mode make every kill feel precious, like an accomplishment. In the Campaign, it's just one more cardboard cut-out getting knocked down, with a million more in its place. (And a team of AI helpers there to pull you back up every time you fall.)

Also, he does wonderfully effective little videos from time to time that really manage to nail a feeling of menace despite also costing like $10.

You can pay to unlock skills. You'll still need to level up the class to equip more than one at a time. But it's definitely there.