It's the Madden of action games. They make the same game over and over again, maybe with incremental improvements if they felt like it that year.

I'm always looking for a chance to push Flower, which isn't recent, but is a must-own if you don't have it already.

That is very pleasing news. It's been a decade or two since I had any reason to look forward to Halloween.

I agree about Isaac, with some caveats, mostly to do with the luck-of-the-draw nature. I've had some playthroughs where I get no keys to get at the good stuff and only range upgrades from bosses for several floors in a row, and there's very little point in continuing when that happens. I was also a bit disappointed…

Incidentally, "From Software": Second most awkward developer name to try to mention in conversation, after "thatgamecompany."

While we're at it, who decided bears were any more uncouth and ill-tempered than, say, hippos?

I put the fucker down before very long after a particular cheapo death on the way back to a blood stain worth 20k+ (I know, my fault for letting that much accumulate. And indeed, my fault for even buying the game despite knowing its reputation and my rage issues). Challenge is all well and good, but that level of…

I thought the only terribly difficult one was 11; the bull-like one that's just incredibly fiddly to maneuver into the right position. But even thinking of that reminds me that it's been way the hell too long since I replayed it.

Fools. They were halfway to that winning formula.

I heard him somewhere, which may even have been Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, and they brought it up, in a way that made it clear it's a pretty established (if one-sided) rivalry. I guess he hates the fact that they laugh at themselves, and I guess other things, but damn, Shearer.

See, and I didn't even know he was also a dick in non-Car-Talk-related ways.

If there's anything bad to be said about him, it could be that he's really kind of a dick about Car Talk. Maybe that's all, though.

Criticizing CEOs and finding aspects of them disgusting and offensive is fine. In your example, Asuka would have had to say something like "And these 'cars' everyone loves so damn much are just a fad for hipsters."

Besides, who wants to buy an apple with a single bite already taken out of it?

Yes. We all know that the jackasses with minds buy Zunes.

They just don't give you a cushy Muppets gig when your terrible jokes come from a place of rage, man.

Or indeed, (because you've been applying to retail and data entry jobs for a year and a half and none of them even reply anymore). Which is true of a friend of mine.

Yo mama's so fat, when she occupies Wall Street, she really occupies Wall Street!

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