If the next D:OS comes out on Switch, I bet I can talk milady into us becoming a two-Switch household. Either way, can't wait to play the next one. Magnificent game!

My advice: if you think you'll like other games Nintendo has coming, finish BotWon WiiU but don't buy the DLC or go back and wrap up things you missed. Then get a Switch and, at some point in the future, repurchase BotW with the DLC and have a fairly fresh re-experiencing of the game!

I vote against grinding: do your levelling by banging your head against the next challenge again and again!

The music in BotW is minimalist up to a certain point. Eventually, I realized that might not be precisely the right term since the game has leitmotifs for every settlement, several types of weather changes, the act of riding a horse, different types of combat (there's regular battle music and then every tough enemy…

Oh, that cannon puzzle boss… only took me 25 years to get to a place where I can get through that level with one life.

I'm about to wrap up my Zelda playthrough at about 125 hours. Longest first-run playthrough of a game I've ever had and it all involved doing new stuff, rather than banging my head against particularly hard parts or grinding or anything (replacing ~100 hours in Dark Souls… I didn't really figure out how that series…

Well, to start, this very evening I shall DESTROY CALAMITY GANON and complete Breath of the Wild. 125 hours. Not bad!

Lots of people, I'm sure, are able to introduce polyamory into their relationships to liven up the sex as the years go by. Because having sex with the same person all the time for years can be difficult, and not everyone feels Othello-esque levels of sexual jealousy towards their partner.

That response was just baffling. I think they must have misunderstood the letter (or I did?). It seems like the LW is stating that he isn't comfortable with his wife having a boyfriend (i.e. an ongoing additional emotional commitment with a person they both know) but is open to the basic idea of non-monogamy (sleeping…

It's a ton of fun! It's exactly what my brief description made it sound like: you're given an objective and a limited set of commands, and you wrote a program to accomplish the objective. It's all basic logical and mathematical reasoning!

Ed Robertson tosses a song off in literally five minutes, it's one of the band's lesser songs, and I'd make a pretty big bet that it's better than anything an "epic Ohio thrash band" has ever come up with.

It's final grade submission day and milady's birthday, so I'll be keeping this brief! Then it's summer and I'll be all over subsequent threads, sucking up all the oxygen with my musings.

"If I'd asked the people what they wanted, they would've told me 'faster horses.'"
-Henry Ford

Oh man, I love the AV Club community, but I'm not sure I'm ready for this step!

Provided you've got the money for it, 21 (or younger!) is really the most appropriate age for that kind of ridiculous gesture. By the time you're actually an adult, you should not be trying to score forgiveness with bribes!

Okay, so he doesn't really have those abs.

Haha, you won't need a bow-and-arrow. Just your paraglider and climbing gloves will do: the stumps activate the timed-ring puzzles (target shooting comes from pinwheels!).

Final papers are due this evening, so I have a lot of students waiting for last minute draft-reviews! So, I'll keep this brief. I'll play The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Run this weekend, with some Snipperclips if milady is up for it (we've both been so busy that our mutual energy levels have…

I only recall two episodes of this show, and they might have just been the same episode, and I might be imagining them because the synopses in my head sound absurd:

Snipperclips, Shovel Knight, 1,2 Switch, Bomberman!