Without question. The energy invested in such a gag that is never telegraphed and could go by completely unnoticed is the exact kind of thing that elevates Psychonauts.

Yeah, my kid has a slew of iPad games she plays herself, as well as the PBS line of browser flash games. But she's been specifically asking me about the games I play. I showed her a bit of Skyrim, trying to explain away the non-stop corridors of death as "them just pretending". But that got tiresome, so I'm grateful…

I feel as one who's chosen Dogen for their avatar, it might be extra-important to impress the greatness of Psychonauts upon their progeny.

You're assuming 19-year-old me had the basic thoughtfulness to know to treat a date to a movie.
Germane to why we were no longer dating? Perhaps.

I'm replaying Psychonauts for the umpteenth time, keeping the experience fresh by playing it with my four-year-old.
She's been asking me what kind of games I play and I've been having a difficult time finding ones to share with her, as they almost all expressly languish in massive and graphic death.
But it's just been a…

Wow. I had a girl break up with me but not inform me of that situation until I asked her about it after we went to Titanic.
Except it was right after the movie, not a month afterward. And there was no eight-hour car ride or ghosts of cancer dads hovering over the precedings.
Still, apparently Titanic is some sort of…

Mmmmm….. oooohhhhh…… Body Massage!

Yeah, in typical internet fashion, I posted with just a memory of them having an argument, then double-checked afterwards to find that it was actually a cordial, funny relationship. I don't know why I have to make everything so damn dramatic.

I overstated it in my original comment. I'm going to edit it so as not to give the wrong impression. Basically, Watterson gave Brethed shit about opting to merchandise, since Watterson is so famously opposed.

Legacy strips upset me so much. I hate the obvious disdain for the medium that makes it compulsory to present the most tepid observations day after day just so the strips can continue to be published and no one has to deal with the exsistential crisis of confronting a new strip.
And I agree, Cul-De-Sac was good. And…

While visiting my dad this last weekend, I read a newspaper comics section for the first time in I don't know how long.
They really are in a depressing state. Existing now only as Paul Reuben's deformed and inbred Hapsburg, with barely a recognizable thread of the lineage that goes back to the amazing creations of the…

Neat! I had no idea she voiced Endive. Chowder is a fine cartoon. Not transcendent, but a solidly enjoyable show with awesome voice work and a really inventive visual style.

Put away your so…. I'm not concerned by which cover version is being used. I'm talking about it as a Leonard Cohen song.

I like imagining that getting a blowjob from Janis Joplin in a famed Bohemian beehive is such a universal sentiment, it could easily be plugged into any piece of pop culture driftwood that floats along.

I may be a bit hard on Shrek for being the movie that launched Dreamwork's animation ship, the S.S. Butt-Obsessed Humor, but I'm just not into it. As @bradwestness:disqus says, the art direction is terrible, and the story lacks the strength of it's own convictions.
But, I mean, it's not like it's A Serbian Film, or…

That was actually a very thoughtful take down of this song. Even if it's more umbrage with the culture around the song than the song itself.
But he's absolutely right that the Shrek connection galls. I haven't seen the movie since it came out, but if I recall it was used during the movie's requisite nadir scene when…

Second playthrough I did! My cousin tried to warn me too, but I shut him down telling him I didn't want anything spoiled.

Unfortunately, Secular Fear House's depiction of a couple who married too young through extensive intervention from their respective families, leading to a long, repressed and ultimately incompatible marriage lacked the narrative "oomph" factor to really take off.

The RC Cola of consoles!

I lost my leg to the console wars.
It had to be amputated due to diabetes-related vascular disease after playing Final Fantasy VI for five straight weeks subsiding on nothing but Little Debbie brownies.