Don’t forget “the perfidious Chinese are deceiving us into eating garbage with their oriental potion MSG”!

The characters in MGS are living in an alternate version of our world — America exists, Japan exists, etc. — and they’re human beings. Their behavior has to make sense within the context of “our world, except nanomachines and Patriots and whatnot”.

Being the “physical embodiment of a negative emotion” is exactly the problem. They’re symbols, not people; they fit better in an allegorical tale like The Pilgrim’s Progress than in something that’s supposed to depict a real human world with some degree of verisimilitude.

Corn syrup also has some applications in baking and candymaking, where it functions differently from cane sugar.

They were freakshow bosses with no personalities and backstories they don’t even get to tell you themselves.

I’m not really clear on what “knocking this movie for critiquing a particularly grimy era in our history for the cynical happy-go-lucky escapism that we were presented with regarding DC output at the time” refers to. The claim we’re talking about here (“a movie that could only exist right now”) is not “knocking [the]…

The review doesn’t say “this story couldn’t have been told at any other moment”. It says this “is a movie that could only exist right now... there’s almost no way it would have secured a green-light any time before right now... it’s an unlikely outgrowth of our current age of superhero saturation: an R-rated,…

About a character from a superhero comic?

Snickers is always the front runner in the frozen candy conversation. More than any other candy bar, I think it shows up in people’s freezers. 

First off, the answer to how you fit such a monstrous sandwich into your mouth is that you mash that sucker into your face with no pretense of dignity and hope for the best.

So do I dip the shocked man’s waffle in the disapproving man’s beer? This is a weird party.

“Hey, am I the first person to notice that there’s a typo in the name of our game and actually the entire series?” “Holy shit, you’re right! How did we not notice that?”

The thing that gets me here is that this is a website that has published articles about making lobster bisque popsicles and taste-testing lube, and somehow an article about putting peanut butter in buffalo sauce is the bridge too far.

But that’s not what they were doing here. They were trying to figure out what other things might taste good mixed with buffalo sauce.

Between this and people referring to mayo as “the devil’s jizz”, I’m kind of thinking that I need to get Satan’s number.

“The first bonus flavor we attempted was whisking peanut butter and Thai chili sauce with the Buffalo sauce”

This is a great piece, except for this disqualifying note:

Brooks is awful and this piece is awful. The “liver is diseased” opening is a quote. 

I don’t usually get into this particular Discourse, because it often does feel like nerdy nitpicking at best and snobby gatekeeping at worst. I think the Berlin Interpretation is great at defining a particular genre of games, regardless of what you call that genre. (I’ve always thought the most difficult challenge for…

It feels like the composer just wrote the initial “you’re riding your horse away from your hometown for a grand adventure!” fanfare and then decided to loop that instead of, y’know, writing the actual theme.