Seaman!

I now have Jens Lekman's "Arms Around Me" stuck and my head and I couldn't be happier.

Hey man, at least you weren't kicked out on the street. Oh no, no one thinks of the original Contra when they think of the NES.

Yeah, the "oh" at the end of the comment was an attempt to throw my support behind others who've pointed out that maybe it was inappropriate to run a glowing review of the band 24 hours after these accusations became public. Of course, that's maybe a bit too much weight for a single "oh" to hold.

Don't you usually recommend your top-rated album of the week? . . . oh.

Agreed, and I also can't quite put my finger on why. FFXV feels like it was the work of a creator (or creative team) with a clear vision of what they wanted the game to be but ME:A feels like it was created by committee and delegated to disparate teams with different capabilities. They're both sloppy, grindy, and…

That image gives me chills.

That bastard pokey just stole my helicopter ride at the top of Monotoli Building! I think that makes me just a bit past halfway through.

Yeah, it's funny, I never had a problem with it either (I think I made two Dubious Foods—once by initial experimentation and once because I thought frogs might be food) but then my sister and a friend of mine asked where to find recipes as they kept making Dubious Food.

Waiting out the rain is the perfect time to refresh your drink.

Oh! And one other thing for starting out: although almost everything is best to discover on your own, knowing the basic rules of cooking will greatly increase your enjoyment. The game does a poor job of explaining it and it's important but once you get it, it's a very flexible system. The two important rules are:…

And thankfully the video game world learned better ways to descend mountains than the arrow keys and endless death of, say, King's Quest III.

Equipment breaks really quickly but if you're constantly blowing through all your weapons the game is telling you to try something different or to run away (and place a stamp to come back!). Especially in the beginning, the enemy compounds are puzzles with multiple solutions.

It is definitely worth playing the campaign mode of Puyo Puyo Tetris. The plot and characters a little too purposefully weird but I found them charming nonetheless. However, the real draw is that it's a series of dozens of short challenges for the various puzzle game modes. As someone who has played both games to…

I'm afraid I can't—he's defending tree-son!

I, for one, welcome Jared Kushner who will most assuredly restore public trust and confidence in the FBI's vital law enforcement mission. In fact, I bet he's so good he'll solve that pesky Russia case in one day!

It feels weirdly dirty to upvote that.

Not to mention the endless hidden fees of living in a poor neighborhood, e.g. paying more for insurance (etc. etc. etc.): https://www.propublica.org/…

This always makes me think of Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse-Five:

It's hard to believe that your successes are entirely the result of your own superiority and hard work if you don't also believe that someone else's problems are entirely their fault.