I absolutely loathe coke. I’ve tried it a few times, every time thinking “well maybe it’s acquired taste; it’s a beloved flavor so I’ll come to like it” - no. Garbage every time. It’s like someone spilled sugar in the dirt and carbonated the result.

I don’t want to nitpick too much, and you even address the same issue within your first sentence using parenthesis, but I don’t want any reference to ‘swatting’ to be called anything other than a crime. It’s utter nonsense that it’s even something people are doing. Using language to reduce the severity of the act…

Good prequels have to be a good story to begin with. It helps A LOT if we don’t already know EXACTLY what the ending was. So Metal Gear Solid 3 is a good prequel because we know basically nothing about Big Boss and anything we find out is probably going to be interesting. First Contact War would be an iffy to terrible…

Alternately, we could not take anything from Paradox “We love enabling these fucks by not policing our mods and pretend we’re cool dudes” Interactive and everything would be better overall.

Shots are a form of social torture that unite people in suffering. They aren’t supposed to be nice - if they were, they’d be served in lowball glasses and sipped.

My friends and I once did a “dive bar tour” of our shady ass neighborhood. We picked DDs (the lucky ones) and hit four bars, had one drink, and then had one…

Kudos to the manager for having her back! She definitely needs a pouch couch or portable hammock though. 

Late stage capitalism: not only will you be forced to work yourself to the bone, but you’ll get shamed for it, too.

Concerning the question of whether reviews should discuss the working conditions of people making the game:

I HAVE BEEN WAITING - HOPING FOR A SWITCH PORT - MY DREAMS CAME TRUE

It’s a really good argument for having more small neighborhood stores rather than megastores we have to drive to. I’d much rather walk a few blocks every other day to get fresh stuff than have to drive once a week and end up later tossing out the 1/3 of my produce that I couldn’t eat fast enough.

Any chance this Jason / Tim all-star partnership will result in an article about the best classic JRPGs to play instead of this game? (outside of the easy answers, like FFVI, which is always the right answer)

I see that you 3 have excluded Jason Schreier from the conversation so allow me to fill in for him. Suikoden.

I keep getting surprised by each new warframe I unlock being substantially different from the others. I keep expecting a reused effect in some way “It’s like ember, but toxic damage!” or whatever, but there is not anything that feels like that.

If you want an anime based closely on Alien, take a gander at Lily C.A.T. as the whole movie is based far too heavily on Alien’s general plot (something causes the station/ship to take a detour, an android goes rogue, everyone is almost killed by alien organism, etc, etc) while also throwing in The Thing for good…

I have JJBA to thank for two of my best friendships - one probably the best of my life, which is pretty jojo.

There’s not really a point to skipping them. There’s no need to ‘catch up’, and every series has its own style and merits.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is an anime/manga made by a guy who clearly just loves anime so goddamned much. When you try to describe it words like ‘parody’ or ‘satire’ come to mind, but that’s not it. It’s just the most anime. Part of that is because it spawned a ton of anime/manga on its own and part of it is because…

There are tons of good dramas that give some happy endings to their characters. For every classic film, play, or book you can come up with that requires the death of a romantic partner, I can come up with one that allows a character and their partner a greater amount of happiness.

“Without conflict” and “Without unecessary grimdark darkness” are two different things, my man.

Ah, it increased my excitment by 75%.