Oh OH I know this one! The kiwi equivalent of Red Bull/Monster is Big V. Which I remember being very tasty.

unlike all those other games about doing your taxes or raking the lawn!”

I heard the word shlooter on Giant Bomb around the time Borderlands 2 was announced. I pretty distinctly remember Ryan and Brad going back and forth about it a little bit. I don’t know if they coined the term, but it’s been around at least since then.

Seconded, I’ve only ever heard the term “looter-shooter”. Besides, “looter-shooter” is more fun to say, and “shlooter” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.

Walgreens isn’t a convenience store of any kind tho, is it?

I have zero problems with giving cash as a gift, it really depends on the person though. If you don’t know a ton about someone, cash or a gift cert to a place they likely shop it better than getting them something they might not like OR ever use. I’m 42, and for say Christmas my mom still likes to get me stuff, only…

Beginning of the album and the end are great, there’s like 3 dead songs in the middle that are maybe the worst they’ve ever done. 

I looked it up and it appears to be a brand of tequila.

That’s a bottle of his branded tequila, Santo...

Will college kids go around calling everything “Pixar-esque" without knowing what it means now?

It’s a CLEFAIRY you monster.

That’s Clefairy bro. 

What killed Control for me was not having a checkpoint in the start of a boss fight. It was a disrespect with my time to force me to make my way to the boss arena, and dodgen minions, every time I died.

I was mildly excited for Control - like not excited enough to play it right away when it came out, but still looking forward to it. I bailed on it pretty quickly though. I feel like Remedy has always created really cool looking action games that just aren’t actually fun. I didn’t enjoy the action of control at all or…

Yeah either the combat in Control clicks with you or not. I loved it but I also played it on PC with raytracing.

Since you’re not there yet in Inscryption I’ll keep this spoiler-free, but I actually found the card game (variation) in Act III almost more fun than the version in Act I; it’s just... kind of broken for narrative reasons, which I think is part of why nobody’s calling for an actual ‘endless’ version of that one. (Or…

What’s bizarre is that most media companies that actually track metrics like time spent on a page, etc. gave up on slideshows several years ago because there’s not time for the ads on a given slide to make any sort of meaningful impression. Giz is pissing off its users for no reason.

Yeah, they haven’t always been this sloppy with their topical humor. “The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis” and many other classic episodes come to mind.

Shout out to OG Iron Chef and all the ocean life that ended up in the ice cream maker.

I know I read the first book. That’s about all I recall from it though; that I read it. I think what I do remember I’m getting mixed up with another book I read around the same time. Unless Eye of the World has people chopping a finger off to make their hand look like the peninsula they live on and a more powerful…