Holy shit. Well that answers that. I guess I knew the sub-base model was pretty much a one-man show but forgot about FF14. If I remember correctly, I think that FF11's servers are still online too after 14 years, so I guess it wouldn't make sense for a juggernaut like WoW to wither away too quickly.

This is me not knowing a hot nothing about the MMO community, but do subscription MMOs like WoW (or, really, just Wow) still rake it in like they used to? I feel like League of Legends would have cut into its market share considerably, and I know a lot of former players who have aged out of it or just don't have time…

A quick googling reveals to me that I totally have never read Whisperer, so fair enough. And it's also been a while since I read Call of Cthulhu, so I just remembered that there were cultists and not their degree of interaction with the beast.

My point re: Bloodborne was just that most of the people in Yharnam — at least, certainly everyone in power, and most of the hunters — seem to be aware of the Old Ones and are even able to exploit them (not just through spells like A Call Beyond, but the entire Healing Church is based around extracting Ebrietas' blood…

They do suck you in, but I just wish there was more level variety. I also wish there were fewer Abhorrent Beasts and fewer levels covered in an endless flood of clone spiders.

Is it really a "hot take" if it's objectively correct?

This doesn't fit the theme of the article but same with beasthood. I think a lot of people expected some sort of beast mode that lets you turn into a werewolf or whatever and it's a complete shame that it's only relevant with a handful of items.

I think Lovecraftianism (not actually a word) ought not to necessarily imply betentacled Outer Gods and aquatic leviathans, but something monstrous lurking just beneath the surface of the mundane. What makes Cthulhu and the rest of the Mythos isn't just their hideous alienness — it's the fact that they were always…

So a coworker of mine mentioned this movie, and I noticed that she pronounces the second word of the title as "figgers." I think that's a very ugly way to shape that word and now I'm desperate for proof that she's the crazy one for pronouncing it wrong. Y'all pronounce it "fig-yərs," right?

Pretty sure that, 30 years ago, a half-black person was no different than an all-black person to the Republican party.

Yeah, they know "what" they are! Truly history's greatest monsters, these AV Club admins!

Except for that weak-ass coleslaw. Yes, I would like to exchange that slaw for extra fries, thanks.

A lot of people here don't like Arby's. They might actually be right about that, but since the roast beef sandwich is the only thing on their menu that I'll order (because it's perfect) I'll never know.

Once I spent a Spring Break at a friend's house in Cedar Point, Kansas, and it was possibly the worst decision I've ever made. The one bright spot in that miserable, boring-as-fuck vacation, was the opportunity to try the fries from Spangles, which only seems to exist in flyover states. I don't know what they do…

Judging by this article, it sounds like the money's already going to a bread-and-butter feature!
*is strangled to death by vaudeville hook*

I finally started watching Stranger Things this weekend, and it's pretty good. The score is really good, and it keeps up a pretty nice Spielbergian tone throughout. It's probably one of the few shows I watch that I could recommend to the rest of my family, which I will never do regardless.

Then there'd still be 90 percent of her hecklers remaining! That doesn't help!

I mean, yeah, he looks like Carl Sagan, but the name is…..oh I just got that.

Aug, in this case, means the month of August.

Oh yeah? Apostrophes would make the sentence mean "Aug is lives' (possessive) matters." Which is probably what Eidos meant.