I was thinking "Maybe this will all be worth it if he goes all out and bounces around the battlefield, showing how the normals are coping with fighting giant robots." But I don't know why I expected anything but what we got. The guy can hardly write the action of a scene that takes place entirely within a Pac-Man…

My favorite line in RPO was when the narrator says that the evil villain has a super robot, then breaks to a new paragraph to say "It was Mechagodzilla."

Oh god, was that a possibility? I'm so upset now.

I'm a heartless bastard, but I felt a stab of vindictive pleasure when that happened, since I had been wrestling with his controls through the whole game and had, in fact, died in that same ravine moments earlier because of him (her?)

Well, if you're curious to know why I dislike the book so, I wrote about 500 words explaining why on a four-year-old thread here: http://www.avclub.com/revie…. Unfortunately, I just missed the review for Armada here, which seems to be the most recent gathering spot for people to hate discuss the book.

This seems like as good a place as any to mention that I purchased and read Ready Player One on a whim this weekend and I thought it sucked.

I'm not. Your friends are assholes.

The mafioso was a hero! One of the best of the good guys! And the other guy was a transparent L. Ron Hubbard expy. Your point still stands—after all, Bruce Lee is a bad guy too, for some reason—but I will not have you slander the good name of (looks up name) Uncle Enzo.

What an…incorrect assessment. I mean, okay the nostalgia was fun at times—I admit I grinned after I was blindsided by a Cowboy Bebop reference and I liked the implementation of the Voight-Kampff test—but it was laid on far too thick and without any purpose. The main character flies a Delorean/Knight Rider/Ghostbusters…

Pretty much. I mean, the PS1 edition of Chrono Trigger had those 2D animated cutscenes, so….maybe? I guess it's more of a soft stylistic categorization than a hard genre one, but I think we can agree that this is…a lot anime.

An anime game with one good idea lost in a sea of mediocrity? And on last-gen consoles to boot? Stop the press—wait what is this doing here? Does the AV Club now have a writer who likes anime? Will we see more of these? I need answers, dammit, etc.

*Sandler doxxes Michelle Monaghan, claims it's about ethics in etc., still calls her a c-word*

"I'm never going to watch another Marvel movie."
Not five sentences later…
"I might possibly give Doctor Strange a try."
That's how you know they have you. Their hooks are in. You'll try to quit, but you can't.

Wow. I guess naming your son David Mitchell makes him statistically more likely to become famous somehow.

David Mitchell the novelist > David Mitchell the comedian (probably)

That…was pretty tasteless, actually. If jokes should be made, they should be made in ways that celebrate his successes, not poke fun at his failures. And also not conform to archaic Japanese stereotypes.

Perhaps, but if that scene was indicative of how the show generates drama, then I'd just as soon not.

That scene remains the only bit of Sherlock I've ever seen, for which I'm grateful, because it convinced me more than any internet review ever could that Sherlock isn't worth a rat's fuck.

Man, why would you link to a CinemaSins video? CinemaSins is the fucking worst.

The "suicidal bad guys" was a feature, not a bug.