I have never had a meatball experience where I  said to myself after “yes, this was a good dining decision.” Meatballs (and meatloaf) always feel like they could potentially be good, maybe, somehow, but in the end, they were wasted time, money and calories.

It’s acceptable to enjoy meatloaf as a kid, when your tastes mostly suck.

But yeah, it’s a slab of hamburger meat with very little done to it. It’s not really defensible. If you enjoy meatloaf as an adult, uh, welcome to your first time visiting the Takeout, I hope you will take this opportunity to learn about food…

This sounds ... good?

OK, this revival we’ll allow.

I know Netflix is famously opaque about their viewership stats, but I would love to find out what the issue was with GLOW. It’s beloved and certainly seems to be highly watched. Or is this a Mad Men situation, where it’s more talked about than actually viewed?

Katie: You know what? Dating sucks.

Natasha: Hold my beer.

I feel kind of bad for this guy. He’s an idiot, yes, but he’s not a “let me thrust myself into the limelight” public figure idiot, like the political class that Cohen has been taking on to date with this series.

This guy’s life is pretty fucked and probably permanently so. (“Hey, we Googled you after you applied for…

Psst, Elon. Hire a grown-up with management experience to run things and take Twitter off your phone. It’s not this hard.

It’s funny, I hated how high-magic and high-powered their D&D game was and I find their setting and story for Monster of the Week pretty cheesy, but the family is great fun and they do a great job with their games. I’ve tried other podcasts that are more my preference, content-wise, and none of them are anywhere near…

I just loaded up on dungeon synth albums from Bandcamp and play one with the right mood on repeat for the adventure, sometimes with an opening rock song (sometimes a cover with medieval instruments) to say “and now we’re starting.”

I assume there are depressing legal reasons why they had to spin off a new studio to create a Torchlight game instead of just making it at the previous Torchlight studio.

He’s a Grade A craftsman, for sure.

Nothing wrong with it at all (in a game). I never turned in my note on my Death Knight character for just that reason. Scourge 4 (Un)life!

Yeah, it’s not hard to imagine a world where the night elves control the forested north of Kalimdor, but provide the rest of the continent resources under trade agreements, and the Horde controlling everything north of the Thandol Span in the Eastern Kingdoms, by treaty, and using natural boundaries as political ones.

A…

Without spoiling BFA too badly, yes, Old Gods and their minions are going to play a significant part in this expansion.

They’ve updated the graphic resolution a few times, but yes, their decision to go with a more timeless animation style ended up being a good one.

They’re not WotLK levels, but they’ve picked back up in recent years. Still in the millons of players. The storytelling and interface is vastly improved since the WotLK days — I think you’d be amazed.

And when you buy the new expansion, you get a free level boost to the starting level of the expansion, so you could…

My wife has been asking me for months how soon after launch we can get our Dark Iron dwarves (we’ve been playing a husband and wife dwarf team since the first day WoW launched).  We’re psyched about more dwarf content.

The Horde gets a redemption arc this expansion, courtesy of Saurfang (who’s rebelled) and Baine (who’s being blackmailed by Sylvanas). I suspect this is going to be a great expansion for the Horde, when all is said and done.

Back in vanilla, one of the very first quests undead players do after leaving the newbie garden is being roped into developing the New Plague by using a sample on a prisoner of war hidden in the basement of the inn in Brill.

Sylvanas hasn’t changed at all, she’s just got the power to do what she always wanted to.