Seriously, though, if the video you have in mind is one of the ones from the bear park in Hokkaido, I've been there twice and am even now wearing the t-shirt I got there. And use a picture I took there as my desktop wallpaper. And iphone lock screen.

He always has the latest Blackberry device! *drool*

I'd be willing to put a bag over my head, hold up a plush bear and talk through it in a silly voice if it would seem less weird.

Herr Kommentdant?

*waves*

The internet was in black & white then. It was only on for three hours a day. We used to put on our Sunday best to log on to it.

It's not a "change," though, which is my point. Different reviewers write differently, they write about different genres differently, different details strike them in different games, etc. Of course people will like some reviews more than others. The ridiculous thing is acting like this is somehow the first "good"…

No no, "blanked," as in callously pretended not to know when encountering socially. And he knows why.

That's one therapeutic monster!

By "your expectations," I actually meant "…of a review." Perhaps I should've made that clearer.

Not useless, just a more ironic dog.

A thousand times yes to this, although I would take any type of monster. In almost any story in any medium when someone turns into a weird monster, the invariable next step is to stomp around and murder everybody, and it's fucking tiresome. Imagine something like The Relic where the creature retains its human identity.

Why do people need to act like a good review means the whole section has turned over a new leaf? All it means is that one piece happened to align with your expectations more than others. The fact that some wag says something similar to this every few months or so renders the sentiment meaningless.

If you have a ps3, you couldn't ask for a better HD showcase than Uncharted 2 (or 3, I presume, but I haven't played it).

That is, frankly, pretty awesome.

Wait wait wait wait, wait. Are you trying to tell me that babies don't gestate in bad taste in movies? Damn my seventh grade health teacher!

Sure, what the heck.

I read Cat's Cradle, only for the second time, and I'm by no means all that well-read, but I'm not sure it's not the best book ever written.

Yay! Of course, it does depend on people other than me being willing to admit they spent the whole weekend playing video games. This may be a nonstarter.

But he's all icy, so I bet when he gives you that big ol' hug, you'd catch a nasty chill. That's pretty scary, right?