What an excellent post! I’ve loved the FF franchise since I was a kid, with FF7 being a constant in my life since then, and Barrett’s a character that I’ve appreciated more and more as I’ve grown into an adult (and as I now approach parenthood myself).

Barret’s improvement in Remake (the de-T-ification) is enhanced even further by Marlene being the single best kid character I’ve ever seen in a video game. As some who’s worked with kids for years, I’ve always been put off by how poorly kids are portrayed in pretty much every medium where they aren’t the main…

Particularly since the article clearly indicates that they know what the heck a cloaca is. I think this is Lenny territory.

He’s going to become The Last Starfighter now!

Dance...Dance...Revolution!

I’d finish the game first. Come back to the Weapons and whatnot. They’ll always be there if you want to do them, but you might find you’re over it once you’re done with the game. Otherwise, that’s a good recipe for bailing on the game and leaving it unfinished (speaking from experience, haha).

The fact that there are related stories (“More From Luigi’s Penis”) made me smile more than it had a right to. Also, Luigi is a weenie.

Being that stupid really is only achievable if you approach it as a formal hobby.

I just haven’t been able to write Trump’s coup attempts off. I understand his incompetence and the buffoons he’s surrounded himself with have turned the whole thing into a farce. But to steal an analogy I recently read, if you told me an bumbling arsonist has been unsuccessfully trying to start fires in my…

How about the Piglet & Biscuit sandwich?

look no further than the Bandai model kits where most of the new model kits just reuse Goku as the base and slap a new head on the body.

“I apologize for calling these people fuckers. They’re obviously motherfuckers.”

I’ll always associate walking through heavy snow with the opening credits to Final Fantasy VI.

You forgot one.

There will be no civil war, there will be no secession, there will be no Trumpie uprising. Trumpies are all talk, no action. Sure, a handful of witless bearded goobers might do something stupid but chances are that was going to happen anyway, as this country rarely goes more than a few months between mass shooting…

“Click on each photo that has an Ewok.” 

My favorite CYA explanation is that it’s Star Wars Captcha, and it’s literally just making sure you’re not a robot.

Love that sound effect. As soon as I saw it drop from Slave 1 I had a mini nerdgasm.

Canadian Federal Politics Primer for the Curious (Americans, I mean):