Oh. I thought her last name sounded familiar. Then, I watched her introduction video, and saw none other than General Johnny Rico sitting next to her.

Man, that Ice Spice feature on “Karma” just proves Antonoff has no range as a producer. Why on earth would you let the beat drop off during the RAP portion of the song?

I’ve had to sit through almost all of these because I have kids. If we’re going by target audience, Mulan would be in last place. I think they asked me to turn it off after 20 minutes. We made it through most of the other live action remakes. 

I had Requiem for a Dream on DVD and probably watched it once a week in college. Martyrs, on the other hand, I will never, ever watch again. Really, any of the movies in the whole “new French extremity” subgenre are the kind of movies I’ll only watch once.

No one understands sex less than game developers. Sex scenes in games are almost always more cringeworthy than hot — although I honestly think CDPR does it on purpose in Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077.

I feel the same way about the Switch. I bought it initially because I knew Sony and Microsoft had new consoles on the horizon. I got a lot of good mileage from it at first, but now that I have my hands on a Series X my Switch collects dust. The last time I pulled it out was for Metroid Dread. I’m not even sure I’ll…

Oh, and it’s a persistently online multiplayer cooperative looter shooter with no end game. You can’t go back and do ANYTHING once you beat the final boss. And they have the gall to say they want to support the game for years. It’s like, okay, start by finishing it.

It’s one of the rare Xbox exclusives we get, and a) it’s capped at 30 fps on Series X, b) clearly wasn’t optimized for controllers because the acceleration feels WAY off (with no way to currently change it) c) encourages co-op by being always online but doesn’t have a built-in matchmaking feature and d) has PowerPoint…

The whole joke was about the hypocrisy of being scared of a shot while simultaneously being all in on other drugs, specifically weed. When the monologue went viral on TikTok, the weed punchline was conveniently edited out. Both sides of the political spectrum are using one long, drawn out joke about being a Hollywood…

I finished Jedi Fallen Order a couple of days ago after shelving it for a little over a year because of a game-breaking bug in the first tomb where the ball became stuck under a tiny overhang. I’m glad I restarted the game and pushed through to the end in a matter of days, but, man, they really just sort of...ended…

I think Fallen Order is a fantastic game that really nails the hero’s journey, and I’m sure I’ll enjoy Jedi Survivor when I eventually buy it (because, let’s be honest, I’m not not going to buy a Star Wars game). But I really miss the morality component to the older Star Wars games. It was cool experiencing the same…

Who’s still paying to eat this crap except parents who want to give their kids a Happy Meal? I can go to In N Out, get a 4x4, fries and a Coke and still spend less than I would at McDonald’s, Burger King or Wendy’s. You used to go to these places for the price and convenience. Now it’s only the latter.

Ugh.

I picked up Gotham Knights used for like $30, and I still think that was too much. The crafting system doesn’t serve any purpose other than to make stats go BRRRR. There are four characters, but they all feel exactly the same in combat. As for the combat itself, it doesn’t have the same feel/flow as the Rocksteady…

This is my worst week yet. I didn’t get UNZIP either. RIP to my 40+ day streak.

I guess I’m buying Dead Island 2.

Right? Whatever will we, the movie-going audience, do with tightly-paced and well-written animated movies based on beloved video game franchises? The horror!

Seriously. Unless it’s a FROMSoft game, I’ve gone full-blown patient gamer. You usually only have to wait a few months for a game to be at $50 or lower.

I mean, it’s a little odd to be against hurling insults while simultaneously hurling an insult. But fair enough.

I rented Bushido Blade 2 from Blockbuster at least four or five times because my parents refused to buy games for me. The idea of slicing someone with a sword and mortally wounding them, instead of just knocking a chunk off their “health bar” really was revolutionary back then.