Isn't cocobolo unethically farmed?

I couldn't agree more. At the time it must have been impressive. And a non-stop action-on-rails was also probably impressive. But now, it's like "uh, i have to fight my way to another door… and another door.. and this train.. " parts of your brain begin to fall asleep due to not being used, while the other parts of…

Well there was this, http://www.rollingstone.com…

PS I feel the same way about Half Life 2, so don't take my word for it.

I'll admit I had the same issue, then went and played it, and left it unfinished.
It was a fine game, for sure, but I would have been utterly blown away by it 15 years ago. The crux of the issue is its mechanics and plot - there are not that many player activities. You basically kill 16 monsters. Killing each one is a…

This comment reads like a classic Gawker comment. Good meta Kinja, there, arundel

I can't imagine someone seeing the NY Post comments section, or ANY YouTube comments section, and still reserve your words to talk about Gawker. That is truly a loss of perspective.

Good read, but was hoping for something more 1996 focused, especially since Stewart's overwhleming success blurs what perceptions were at the time. The Daily Show was - actually - initially successful. And despite Craig being kind of an asshole, that reputation only really surfaced as part of his image AFTER the…

That explains a very small subset of games.
The bigger reason is that older games packed in limited experiences, and compensated with increased difficulty to maximize playtime.

There's a lot to unpack here but most of it traces back to you.

I always heard that the car crash happened the same day or week that their next album got a green light, ie a major label signed them or agreed to fund the production.

Well someone is in a bad mood! This episode was a return to form. Margarey is clearly playing the long game. The waif was His favorite until Arya showed up, so her anger motivation is obvious. Generally this episode put the focus back on characters, the journey, instead of arbitrary plot twists. Are we watching the…

Highly recommend throwing them all out at once. Think about all the life-time you will have freed up. Not much left to write a column about, though, so, natch. Disregard!

This. Exactly. When I've posited this POV before, I generally get two responses, 1) "Bowie is awesome and that never happened" or 2) "I always liked Bowie wtf". It's amazing how people either forget prevailing opinions when said opinions become difficult to understand, or think it's about what they thought personally.…

Yeah, so did I, I was saying it was somehow an unpopular opinion among music critics and high school bullies at the time.

What this article hits on is how many times in the early 90s both critics and society-at-large prematurely wrote off a lot of 70s and 80s acts as "forgotten", only to see their legacy loom years later. I think this was 90s cynicism at its height, and it was easy, even tempting to embrace the anti-corporate coda…

I love this aesthetic. It doesn't remind me at all of Scooby Doo era. The CGI looks intentionally stylistic, which would be the next step beyond pure realism. I'm not saying it's "bad and proud", im saying it has a consistent and signature look that makes sense in context, in fact, makes it look fresh as hell.

"I ran" doesn't even belong in the same building as "cars". The former is posing as the future, the latter was the future.

SO this article ends with one big "I dunno"?

Now that I've seen two episodes, I noticed the reviews/interviews/press highlight the jewish angle much more than the miniseries does, especially in the second episode, in which its not explicitly mentioned the main character is Jewish, even during the Elie Wiesel sequence.