I am trying not to post about Elden Ring every single time I post on here—it’s a long-ish* game and I’m not quite breezing through it yet—but I got some stuff stuck in my head and I don’t feel like I’ve seen it discussed elsewhere...

Fair enough. I hope my reply didn’t come off as condescending or patronizing; I was honestly just curious.

Yeah, I keep thinking I should get into it if it ever gets cheap enough, but I have a strong suspicion that it might turn into a nausea machine (The Nausea Machine:  now you can get that bespoke nausea experience without going to sea or imbibing reckless amounts of alcohol!) for me.  I don’t experience a lot of motion…

And yet, there’s nothing quite like the sense of looking down into these beautifully realized worlds, all distractions blocked out and magic all around.

Let me write your next Newswire for you guys:

La-Mulana is such a weird little game. I’ve only played a small portion of it, but I really need to get back to it some time*. If I had to explain it to someone, I would tell them it is the most fully-realized Indiana Jones game experience. I’m old to remember the Atari 2600 Raiders of the Lost Ark adaptation,…

Speaking of weird formats, Kinja really made some unfortunate choices.  I tried to link a few old interviews above, but apparently that doesn’t work anymore?!?  Why even bother having the link button in the formatting options, then?  

AVC: That wasn’t me. I’m the guy who called Terror Firmer “pure genius.” It’s on the back of the DVD box.

The only possible reason I can think is that they show up better on camera or that they are easier to arrange as a prop?!? They will likely go bad over a long shoot with a lot of hot lights, but I guess they won’t show visible putrification for some time (though they might start to sweat/glisten), so I guess it works.

Let me raise that to @.04:

Shit, he’s playing in my neck of the woods right on my birthday.  I hope scalpers don’t scoop up all the tickets before I get mine!

Hickman’s superhero comic work is what trade/omnibus collections are meant for. He plans for the long, long term, with multiple books truly combining to create a larger plot (unlike the crossover event “Oh, let’s stop what we were doing and deal with this invasion/supervillain plot/whatever for an issue or two, then…

To quote Laurence Olivier’s famous rejoinder to Dustin Hoffman’s insistence on staying awake for days to get his character right in Marathon Man: “Why don’t you just try acting?”

Then again, how many pizzas are still ordered over the phone these days?

When I worked retail, it was always the product we had the most of left over at the end of season. Whether that is because they always sent us some damn much of the crap (it’s really light and you can pack a lot of them in a box/on the store shelf.  

Huh. I think you just won the “Best Way to Make a Terrible Food Good” Award!

Were they more expensive then or was your mom planning some other use for them? I mean, technically, they are probably more expensive by volume than regular marshmallows, but I really can’t imagine wanting to eat more than two a day as an adult (children have fewer compunctions) because they are just pure sugar.

Guilty as charged.  And thank you for your military service, Captain!

I didn’t much like its predecessor “copypasta” much either. I know all too well that trying to dictate the course of linguistic change (or to preserve a specific version of a language) is folly, but the whole “portmanteau, but with a pointless flourish” gimmick really bugs me, for whatever reason.  It’s just lazy meme…

Has anyone tried making Rice Crispie Treats with Peeps instead of regular marshmallows? It sounds like a terrible idea, but I just know someone out there has done it and I am curious to see the abomination that resulted.