I’m going to forgive this episode for sidelining Lazlo, of only because they clearly needed all that time in the episode for Doug Jones’ great performance.  I particularly love his face-acting.  Presumably, the costuming and makeup for the Baron must be very restricting, because he throws so much of his performance…

Some bad stuff happened—her night club burning down last season, her accidentally crushing doll-Nadja’s legs, etc—as a result of frequent bouts of blood-drunkeness, though she is convinced it is due to some external cause, which the Guide traces to a hex on her. I was convinced early in the season that this was a ruse…

Addendum to my previous post: With the PS1/Fifth Generation aesthetic being the new hot retro look in the indie scene, I wonder how hard it was to develop for those systems compared to the current generation. I would imagine the teams were smaller back then and they didn’t have quite the suite of middleware that we…

And from a strictly player-focused point of view, gaming’s endless obsession with delivering the biggest, longest, most detailed worlds imaginable can often feel, frankly, exhausting.

Where’s my welfare benefit for fudge rounds?  Biden promised!

Her origins have since been retconned to be far less interesting:

In film, the record is spottier and limited to supporting players like Sunspot in X-Men: Days of Future Past and El Diablo in Suicide Squad.

Forget it, Jake, it’s CryptoTown...

Honestly, they could have just dropped the “Roleplaying” part out of it; “Stray Gods: The Musical” would have probably been enough of a draw.

Are you the same Zack Handlen that used to write for the site or are you just wearing his skin?

One of the thing I enjoy most about the best SoulsBorne games is exactly that “big, weird, and full of mysterious and obscure secrets” deal you mention; it is likely the carrot at the end of the stick that get me to play these games*. However, as someone who doesn’t participate in a lot of co-op—my friends can tend to…

The real Meg was the friends you made along the way!

As long as there have been brands on social media, brands have been stumbling into controversy. In 2017, for example, Wendy’s posted a Pepe The Frog meme to score lulz and show the company’s followers how online the account was. These infractions often cause a stir because the original poster was probably ignorant of…

I didn’t even know it was back...for a limited time, of course, because current-day Taco Bell loves stoking the whole FOMO urge.

It’s maybe a deeper cut, but I think Brad Pitt’s character from Burn After Reading would be a worthy inclusion on this list.

I have the distinct feeling that a lot of the aesthetic design for this iteration was insprired by the wild success of Into The Spiderverse. I actually do like the design, but I do worry that studios might be taking the wrong lessons from that movie’s success.

It is definitely an outlier in the current “crank out the content as fast as possible” streaming age.  I wish them good fortune with whatever project the two get up to next.

Now someone just needs to explain AFK Arena to me. I’ve seen so ads for it, often with some variant on the “crappy, anime-animated parasite” you describe above, but very little in the way of actual gameplay that would indicate exactly what kind of game it is.

The problem Marvel seem to run into (and probably most superhero films/TV) is they want to play around with genre, but they never really commit to it because they worry about the dummies their audience not being able to follow along (and, of course, they need to string along the hardcore fans with nods to significant…

There can be perfectly valid reasons to be critical of the Barbie movie but the reactionary pearl-clutching over the focus of its satire is bad faith nonsense.