Something about there was a man trapped on the untwisted conveyor belt, but there were 5 on the twisted conveyor belt, so some brave factory worker made the only choice they could.

There’s a scene in Gangs of New York where Bill the Butcher quickly/barely cooks a hunk of meat and just chows down on it. That always looks good even though I know it wouldn’t be done enough for me.

Yeah I had an old partner hit me up a while back and ask if we could get together for spades but there are like 5 kids between the two of us and it’s hard to justify ditching them for a potentially 7 hour game.
We must’ve had a real harsh rule-set where I learned, because the no trading on nil was a real test of your…

(white guy here) We had the same nil/blind nil rules. Ace-high, but to make it harder we also played 10-for-200, Boston for game (if you got set, you lost the game), minimum team bid (board) of 3, and our special house rule was lowest club in everyone’s hand led. It made that first book a real challenge to bid on,…

Right before St Patrick’s Day, y wife and i were gonna throw a housewarming party so we bought and baked a whole mess (14 lbs or so) of potatoes. Prepared a whole bunch of toppings including green and red chili for the bar. Loaded up on bacon and cheese. Then no one showed up due to social distancing.  We’re still…

The imaginary meal in Hook. Yeah I’m sure it would taste like food coloring and whipped cream, but maybe if you believed hard enough...

For side-scrolling shooters that are reminiscent of the Alien franchise, a game from the 90s called Abuse is hard to beat. Researching genetic testing in a prison always ends well. But the alien-like creatures are hidden in plain sight at times, feral, cunning, and make just the right sounds to add dramatic tension. I…

There is a bunch of stuff in the movie that could be interpreted as either “magic is real” or “this family that was too religious for the Puritans was seeing the supernatural everywhere and were just crazy instead.” But the end comes down so hard on one side, it throws away any suspense built. Like Frailty, but the…

I really disliked the ending of The VVitch for not staying ambiguous.  Loved it up until then.

Their take on the Olympics is perfect.  The close calls, injuries, even cheating scandals, all with the same “I’m gonna care about curling for three weeks every 4 years” kind of intensity.

Horseradish?

What about Catherine?  It was a good rental length game, almost achingly simple when it came to mechanics, but crazy and deep and fun.  My wife hated the repetitive narration of your moves and that’s about the only thing keeping me from playing it now.

Do the McElroys have to watch it every Thanksgiving now?

The imaginary food from Hook was always a culinary goal.
Past that, a lot of those yogurt flavors in The Good Place would be amazing to try.

I believe Rooster Teeth did an Immersion episode about the greatest of video game meals, the cold, long forgotten turkeys scattered throughout Gauntlet.

I’d like to add something I think I picked up from an old AV Club article.
Home by Gavin Castleton.  It’s a great album about a zombie apocalypse that turns out to be a metaphor for something else.  Each song is a chapter in the story and drifts from some really catchy surf rock to growled spoken word poetry to a…

No Sicario?  

If you listened to Serial, I feel you should give American Vandal a try on Netflix.  It’s a great parody that becomes something more.

The Basement. It’s intense. You don’t have clues and monitors to help you out, they’re 45 minutes long, and have a mix of standard and very unique challenges. It is horror themed and has a lot of horror aspects that are handled very well but some people have lower tolerances for that kind of stuff. Do them in order,…

Which Komnata Quest rooms did you do? My wife and I did Maze of Hakaina and The Robbery that Changed the World. We liked Maze but thought it was really light on things to actually do, then went and did TRCTW which has almost no need for thinking as it’s all just laid out for you to do and felt like it was just a…