Yeah. Always bring your own sharks from home. It’s called being a professional. Duh.

I know they’re not coming back, but my heart will ache for more Viva Pinata games until the day I die.

I suspect some big (and some well deserved) changes are coming for a few of the other branches of kinja, not too far down the road, but I hope nothing changes here. I love you guys.

That is the most impressive thing like that I’ve seen since all of the crazy stuff people made with LittleBigPlanet.

When I read this news about AT&T wanting to expand the HBO line up the first thing I thought was FINE THEN BRING BACK CARNIVALE YOU MOTHERF*****S. lol Which is totally irrational, I know, but it still drives me freaking batty that they just wandered off one chapter into such an amazing three chapter story.

Right on. You can’t go wrong with Vera Farmiga or Michael K. Williams. Leguizamo has his moments, too. This is shaping up to be a fun little series.

As much as I love them, HBO gets a little too much credit for “quality”. Their good shows, like Game of Thrones and Sex in the City and Westworld do fine, and generally see endings, but their great shows, like Deadwood, Carnivale, Luck, and Flight of the Conchords always seem to die premature deaths. (To be fair, (cue…

No, Deadwood was not cancelled for John from Cincinnati. Deadwood was killed off because it was costing HBO $5 million an episode, which would be high by 2018 standards, but was insane in 2006. Milch and Kem Nunn (the guy who wrote the “surfer noir” books JfC was inspired by) were developing John from Cincinnati long…

lol I guess it’s fine that I don’t know who Vince Staples is, then, since anyone who prefers dubs is DEAD TO ME.

I mean, I like twitter as much or more than most people, but the truth is that unless you’re using it to organize the real-time resistance for something like Arab Spring, no good can come of it.

Yeah, it’s probably worth noting that a movie like this could never, ever get made in the first place unless someone with Johansson’s level of celebrity signed on to do it. Which is a different, but related issue, which revolves around Hollywood being terrified of taking chances on any story that’s outside of their…

One minute the argument is “trans women are 100% real women and trans men are 100% real men”. If there’s no difference, and trans people really are bonafide members of the gender they’ve transitioned into, then Scarlett Johansson playing a trans man should be exactly the same as her playing any male character, which…

I avoided Schitt’s Creek for years based on its dumb name, and finally gave it a chance a few months ago because one of the writers here at AV Club (Sam maybe? I can’t remember!) said nice things about it in an article. I’m glad I did. It’s very funny.

The way things work now, the first thing I’d check if I was hiring someone is their social media presence, and if they had anything beyond a cup cake themed instagram or a privacy locked facebook account, it would be a hard pass. Even if I agreed with everything they’d ever posted, it’s just not worth the potential…

They must have done a lot of work on it, though, because every time I see a screen shot now, something is actually happening. I was playing it back when it first came out, and it was like 90% resource collecting and fort building and 10% fighting mean dogs.

I feel like there is something slightly off in the diagnosis of gaming addiction, because it seems to be all guys. Drugs like cocaine and alcohol, and even gambling, affect both men and women in droves. Yet every time gaming addiction comes up, it always seems to be a man or boy we’re talking about. I know the names…

That’s a nice switch. When talking to people who don’t really follow comedy, I often find that Doug Stanhope himself is “the best comedian you’ve never heard of”.

That sounds strange and interesting and I love driving games. I will look it up.

When I read the article about Joanna going to see the EDM show with her mom, I thought, “Your articles have always been great, but now you really are a novelist pretending to be a blogger.”

That is amazing. She is amazing.