I will always stand by my assessment that that part is hilarious.

I want a revival of the Maniac Mansion TV series, except this time with even less to do with the game than before. It could be about a talking dog getting lost in the big city, and at the end it turns out the big city is Raccoon City and WHAM it was the Resident Evil TV series all along. 

Sounds good, although I doubt it’ll be seen by as many people as the seminal smash-hit holiday classic JINGLE ALL THE VAAAAAAAAAY

No mention of the fact that all this kicked off because the creator of Father Ted and The IT Crowd, Graham Linehan, is now a full-time transphobe who’s been campaigning against the charity?

My nephew has Xbox One and also the Rare Replay compilation disc, so I was hoping to show him one of my favorite games, Blast Corps, but the disc only uploaded the Perfect Darks and Banjo-Kazooie games (& a few others like Kameo from the Xbox Live Arcade that were on the disc) but none of the other older games cuz the…

AOC calling in to the stream was obviously a big deal, but it seems a little odd to centre the entire story around that, while giving hbomberguy one sentence.

And almost entirely grassroots too. Donations and visibility primarily through Twitter retweets, e.g., Neil Gaiman, AOC, fucking CHER all retweeted and spread the word. I donated $4.20 (because duh) after seeing it spread there.

“Next up on Fox News: Donkey Kong. Who is this dangerous girlfriend-kidnapping simian? Why does he want to redistribute your barrels? And how has he influenced hard-left radical ‘Sandy’ Ocasio-Cortez?”

Magician: “Honey, have you seen my rabbit?”

Most people - even book-lovers, a group I count myself part of - should actually consider getting rid of books. As much as we like to elevate them into some rarefied category, they are just objects like anything else, and I bet most of us have a tonne of books we’ve idly picked up or been given over the years that…

Don’t hide from it, own it! “If I can sell Fyre Fest, I can sell ANYTHING!”

Cop: “You have the right to be tried by a jury of peers.”

The 90s were weird. 

(Full disclosure: This author has interviewed Brennan herself, and appears with her high school concert orchestra in the “I Believe I Can Fly” video.)

“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game ‘Monopoly’” - Steven Wright

This might be controversial, but I liked Duncan Jones’ Warcraft remake more than the David Bowie original.

Turns out they had MinimumProfits

I legit just snorted coffee laughing.

Nothing more punk rock than American Express®

I won’t lie. I would watch the fuck outta that.