This is disappointing. Obviously his vision and skills as a director are what make him a treasure, but he was always such a presence on screen as well. I didn't know he was planning to hang up that hat.

It got a video and all, so it can hardly be considered under-promoted, but "White Walls" will forever be the stealth banger on The Heist. I think "Thrift Shop" is excellent and deserves its pop success, but goddamn "White Walls" is so much fun.

I thought maybe he was referring to the fast double-bass drumming, also not very common in Mastodon's music. Not blast beats though. No.

And they've all followed the same career trajectory of starting out as sick metal bands before morphing into melodic, at times proggy, at times psychedelic shadows of their former selves.

Again, Red and Blue for sure. The records they've put out since have good moments, but they're not nearly as solid overall.

Definitely one of the best on The Hunter, along with "Dry Bone Valley."

I'm afraid I don't like his professional work very much, but his answer here was great. Should #SavageSherman become a regular feature?

There's a version without the illustrations? Like, what's even the point!?

2 is pretty widely considered the best, and I agree, but I'm glad to hear you're having fun with the first. I seemed to notice opinion souring on the first game, especially after the release of 2, but I think it holds up, with some terrific moments I'd put among my favorite, series-wide.

I'm with the both of you that RE5 deserves more love than it gets. It looked fantastic, had a cool setting, some super tense encounter designs … it didn't have the same wow factor of RE4, which felt like it was building an entire franchise up from the bottom and better, but I think in many ways it's an objectively…

This is going back a few years now, but the wife and I played L.A. Noire together and had a great time of it. I handled the controller for all the game-y bits, and we worked together on the investigations and interrogations. It was a perfect couples' couch co-op game, really.

I'm not nearly so far as you in The Witness, having played maybe 3 hours, but I'm loving every fascinating, frustrating moment of it. As a completionist for puzzle and adventure games, it is painful how often I feel I must abandon an area in hopes to discover new information that will help, never sure if I really…

It seems impossible to me that I Want to Believe and The Dark Knight came out the same year. Like I would have guessed the second X Files movie was 2004 or something.

It was several years between conception and action, but the beer brewing episode of the show Good Eats eventually got me into making my own beer.

And also, that version was total shit.

We also banned Jaws, even though he was bigger, because even that was too significant a deviation from the norm. We wanted that headshot hit box in exactly the same spot on everyone.

I have one at home by the bed and one at work. I never turn either of them off, even when I'm away, because they seem to last longer. When they get old, and I'm talking years old, turning them off becomes a risk not worth taking. They survive by pure inertia.

Agreed. Neither game looks great today, obviously, but PE2 looks like shit.

I think this is spot on. It's miles better than Y&G. More focused and imminently likable. But it's still far short of Blue.

Yeah, Nermal is referred to as a "he" several times. Though somehow that still felt wrong and I always thought of Nermal as a she.