Infamous series, specifically Infamous 2 if you chose ice powers. Gliding in Arkham Citygets an honorable mention, before the map got too big in the sequels

This is such a welcome surprise! My fiance and I were watching some Ellis essays recently and I actually brought up the Mass Effect, Visceral Games and Hangar 13 long form articles as similar intellectually stimulating deep dives into how pop culture comes into existence. I’m at work now, but I can’t wait to put this…

I think that approaching them as de facto antagonists to communities only serves to create more division and destroy the trust that they need to do their jobs properly

“ICE is merely the administrative agency. It’s the policies in that agency that is problem.”

I never want this cross-over week to end

I really enjoyed it overall, but the editing was a constant issue throughout the movie, especially during the second act (where I suspect the scene probably was). But characters popped up in locations they hadn’t been shown traveling to and with equipment they were never shown acquiring, while other characters are…

It’s a sequel to the two original installments, but you don’t need to have seen either. I didn’t catch any references to Predators but they definitely seemed to rule out the AvP films 

I saw this last night, she and Sterling K Brown are the MVPs of this movie

The internet works fine, it’s supposed to let us communicate with each other on a closer level than ever thought possible. It’s not the internet’s fault we’re horrified by what we can now see

It already has, sad to say. Before the Madden killings, there was that murder by SWAT, and a few years ago a mass shooting was averted by the police during a Pokemon tourney because the shooters posted online about it

Today in frustrating missteps that will make you wish that a famous person you like had just shut their mouth and not said anything

How is Trader Joe’s doing? Sibling rivalries can get really tense

“Hey, you really shouldn’t have said that.”

Pats fans getting flummoxed by their own sense of entitlement is great and all, but if Dunkin really wanted to make me happy they’d bring back Bagel Twists 

I’m not going to over-analyze a cartoon, but “think of Russian interference in context with other direct attacks on America, such as 9/11" isn’t a shitty point to make. If it had it been made tomorrow, or yesterday

They have been building up to it by having video essayists make videos about different book related subjects for their YouTube channel. I found out because I follow Lindsay Ellis, and she did a really great series for them over the past few months, but now because of algorithms I’m addicted to PBS videos

I woke up this morning and read the headlines, not this one but ones just like it. That’s when I realized: I’ve spent my entire career as an NFL fan watching two Green Bay QBs in a row build their legends out of finding new ways to humiliate my team every year. Favre didn’t even have the decency to disgrace himself…

I’m not being literal, I’m just pointing out its possible for people to have fun both as the designers intended as well as have fun discovering a loophole that allows them to mess around in ways the designers did not intend, but that didn’t involve breaking any specific rules, only doing things that weren’t expected…

You can have fun at an amusement park by playing the games and enjoying the rides as intended. You can also have fun sneaking into the newly built are that isn’t open or operational yet, but didn’t technically have a “no admittance” sign. One of those is definitely much closer to getting you thrown out of the park,…

They did that, it was called Superior Spider-Man and it involved a superheroic surveillance state subplot too. The difference was that Spider-man* was correctly called out as a fascist through-out and relying on that tech ends up making him complacent and turning the city against him