I guess I could solve this by just turning subtitles on, but was it really spelled "Demogorgon"? I had it as "Demi-" in my head, since that made more sense—like a monster that was half Gorgon, half…I dunno, fungus?

Dowd had a pretty good review here, but you bring up some equally salient points. I bet the two of you could have a riveting discussion on the resurgence of horror films as projects in which serious directors can experiment and stretch their creative muscles by playing with genre conventions, as opposed to the bevy of…

Well, it's very bold of you to speak truth to power some 200 comments into a forum about people's sexual proclivities.

The latest Madea movie was at the top of the box office last weekend. Being popular never guarantees that something is actually good.

So many Trump articles you could have trolled on the A.V. Club, and you pick the one buried in a sex advice column?

I guess this could cut out the middleman by having Deadpool monologue about Tarantino's pop culture theories directly to the camera.

Driving: The Interactive Experience. It's a cool game where you drive from Wisconsin to Oklahoma, then from Oklahoma to Michigan, in about four days. It's really immersive and you don't have time to consume any actual pop culture. Maybe if I bothered to look for interesting podcasts.

Neither, actually, but she really went into an abortion-posting frenzy about a day after I posted a bunch of pro-Hillary taunts after the first debate. I can read between the lines.

My mom has helpfully informed me via Facebook that a vote for Hillary is a vote for abortion and WILL absolutely condemn my soul to hell. I going home to visit next week and I'm not sure I'll be able to take the passive-aggressive sniping.

*Swissyphean*
FTFY

SotC was the only game I've played that I obsessed over for years before I ever touched it that still exceeded my expectations for it. I once attempted to kill every lizard in the game just for the sake of exploring the world and it really is bonkers all of the work that Team Ico put into making the world feel diverse…

I feel like that would have significant consequences for the city of Venice.

But enough about Alison Brie.
ETA: I originally read EMG's comment as "he's in some fine stuff." I think you'll all agree that this interpretation makes my joke much funnier.

Technically, no, he said "bracket what's his shit bracket apostrophe s wife dies". He had to repeat it a couple times before I got it.

Don't worry, the guy also liked the Star Wars prequels and The Big Bang Theory, so it's 100% cool to make fun of his opinions.

Yeah, I don't actually choose my friends based on video game preferences, believe it or not. Was I wrong in my understanding that we at the A.V. Club still do jokes and humorous exaggerations?

This guy in question was also my roommate at the time, who had watched me play through the entirety of Nier, which had about three separate moments where I actually sorta welled up a bit. He also played through Shadow of the Colossus without ever reacting to the story.

I think this was still a few weeks before Gears 3 came out. Which, if I remember right, features [what's his shit] dying himself in what some shitty people have actually, unironically called "the saddest scene in all of video games."

I remember having a discussion with friends in college about what the most emotionally affecting moment they'd experienced in a game was. One person said "when [what's his shit]'s wife dies in Gears 2." I am no longer friends with that person.

It's helpful that they completely shred their credibility at the very beginning by admitting that Roy Batty and Hans Gruber aren't even on the list.