This is why I strongly encourage people to play the original as if the guns don't exist. It really feels like the game was designed to be played without ever firing a gun, and in general it's more enjoyable that way, IMO.

Heyyyyyyy, that affects us.

I had the opposite experience while working the overnight shift at Wawa. My existence largely consisted of cleaning the bathrooms, mopping the floors, and fucking up people's deli orders, but once every two and a half hours the satellite music feed played Sex Machine. That horn section intro still sounds like freedom.

I remember a bunch of those tennis ball-firing tank rides from the late 80s. The pier in Wildwood had a similar ride, except they were gunboats in a tank of water and you could either drive the boats or just shoot tennis ball cannons at them from outside the tank. Great times.

We saw We Will Rock You a year or two ago and I hated it. Felt like terrible cash-in garbage. It was like they took the plot to Rush's 2112 (dystopian future where rock and roll is forbidden) and slapped in some really piss-poor Queen covers. Just really generic and uninspired, which was a big letdown. Didn't even…

I haven't gotten this far into his ouvre yet, but the only Le Carre I've found intolerably dull is The Honourable Schoolboy. I desperately wanted to enjoy it, but it just felt so meandering — granted, I only got about a third of the way in before I bailed, so maybe it picks up.

I wish they'd gone with the latter-style scrawny/sad Rincewind, rather than the earlier old/fat characterization. The tone and writing also left a lot to be desired — it felt like the series was constantly stopping to mug for the camera, if you know what I mean. Whereas Discworld usually plays its lame humor fairly…

I'm glad you posted this before the inevitable "but everyone was really racist back then!" canard. It really is shocking how regressive the man was — if anything, the racism in his stories usually pales in comparison to his own personal beliefs.

This was almost funny. But then, ultimately, it was not.

It's a mass driver, not a laser. But you're right, it's really funny, especially since nobody's really that upset about it. They're more "Damn it!!! OK, moving right along…"

Chiggers are very real but people do not understand them. People usually think that they burrow into your skin and stick around, and the itching is because the insect (mite, really) is still under your skin burrowing around. But that's not it at all!

What the hell happened to the Fable series? I thoroughly enjoyed the first game, which despite its many flaws was a fun and well realized pop fantasy/folk tale that at times felt like an action RPG adaptation of a Warcraft game.

This is a fine episode and all, but with Daylight Savings (the wrong one, admittedly) just around the corner I'm kinda shocked you guys didn't choose to showcase "Time Tunnel," the excellent ep where Little Pete obsessively consumes Riboflavin so that he can safely time travel through the clocks jumping back and Big…

I've listened to a lot of M Ward's recent stuff, and it's way too sleepy for me. I don't know. It has none of the rough edges or vitality I expect from folk. Is this a recent trend for him, or is that just how he is?

This feels like someone accidentally produced the script with "(come up with good one liner here about ghost sex)" penciled in.

I find the rise of highbrow true crime deeply troubling, because it brings to bear powerful narrative and storytelling tactics that are usually only ineptly used in the legal process, and we're really only trusting and hoping that the storytellers are ethical and methodical. And while the justice system at least…

The only Archie comic I ever read all the way through was a special one-off where the gang saved Riverdale from a flood with the MAGIC OF HAM RADIO!

My theory is that there never was a "real" David Bowie in the Ventureverse. In other words, it's not that David Bowie is or isn't the Sovereign, but rather that they were both just guises of a shapeshifting loner who was trying to escape his own identity, or lack thereof.

Yeah sorry, if the overwhelming response to your trailer is a sort of tepid shrugging and hand wringing, and it only lands with the die hard fans, it's not a very good trailer. Compare it to something like Mad Max or the force awakens, which resonated with people who were on the fence about the movie and actually…

Don't forget Jukebox the Ghost. Or, you know, do.