Our TV (a 3-4 year old 4k Insignia w/ built-in Roku) has worked totally fine considering it was like $250 and is a cheaper brand. Sure, the interface is a little slow sometimes, and once or twice a week it will just decide to reboot randomly, but the positives have far outweighed the negatives. I already have at least…

Damn, I just gave in and bought it on PC over the weekend! Oh well, I guess it’s not clear how long I’d have to keep waiting for that port.

It says something about this administration’s actions over the past few years that I felt a palpable sense of surprise and relief at that incredibly logical and basically humane release schedule prioritizing lower incomes first.

I decided to treat myself with a couple new games, so I finally bought Disco Elysium and RE2 at Steam’s sale and Control at Epic’s sale. I feel a little guilty spending money on frivolous things like that, but we’ve tightened up the rest of our budget as much as we can at this point even though our incomes haven’t…

Square Marketing: Okay, it’s a remake of a 20 year old game, so we should be safe to include all these juicy plot points. These will definitely get people excited!

Who knew all you had to do was unlock FF7's secret crafting system by beating the Battle Square 77x in a row, use that system to combine two phoenix downs, and that would unlock the emotional revival scene. I can’t believe they finally kissed!!! Poor Tifa!

When the quarantine finally lifts, many of us will glance out the window, hiss at the world, and just stay inside to avoid the whole lot of them.

“Ah yes, well you know, sacrifices must be made in times like these, sacrifices for the greater good! The wheels of commerce and creation must continue to turn, for those wheels are the very inertia of modern life! And that is why, in the face of all disaster and disease that may be thrown at you, God’s work must…

My wife and I have been grappling with that question as well. We had our groceries delivered for the first time this week, and after placing the order we had a long back and forth about the ethics of protecting ourselves from risk (ideally being better at social distancing by staying at home and providing fewer…

I mean, from a purely thematic point I know I’m not currently in the right headspace for a grim and emotionally devastating journey through a dystopian hellscape where hell is other people, because that’s just life at this point. And considering how well Animal Crossing is doing, I’d venture a guess that I’m not alone…

I don’t think so, because from the trailers it seems like Aerith sees them too. They could be replacing the failed Sephiroth clones (which would be weird) or be a new foreboding element (but I’m not sure which part of the plot needed dementors - maybe a very blunt visualization of the damaged lifestream / cries of the…

I’m already getting some mild alternate universe vibes from the trailers, like the fact that Aerith has a flower stepped on in the opening cinematic, all the dumb ghost things, etc. I wouldn’t doubt that they’d be bold enough to change a major plot point.

OMG I can’t believe it! Episode 1 ends with Cloud dying and Aeris mournfully putting him to rest before picking up his buster sword herself and swearing vengeance! SO HYPED FOR EPISODE 2!

I’m fairly used to working remotely as my job was pretty flexible about it long before all this happened, but even I’m losing track of the days and seeing my typical routines fall apart pretty quickly. My normal self-care options just aren’t doing it either, so I’m trying more “active” things (rather than consuming…

My wife rarely plays games but loves Animal Crossing, and her grad school classes and internship have scaled back to the point where she has lots of free time on her hands suddenly. So she’s made very similar progress to you, which is both admirable and a little frustrating as I just can’t keep up with her. Nintendo,…

I’ll never understand the love for Friends, but I guess you just had to be there (I was a little young for it, but some of my friends at the time loved it). The Office is a mediocre show that was fine at the time, but I’ll really never understand why it became the most popular show of our decade when there are so many…

I mean, aren’t Subway and other similar strip mall food establishments also franchises? I’m sure they have some small level of autonomy, but from what I understand there’s still strong oversight from the corporate level in terms of operations.

I mean, the snake’s gotta be Loki, right?

Courts: You can’t go on a cocaine-induced bender and shit in all the rivers.
Me, screaming at the swirling mass of cat faces trying to control my life: BUT SCIENCE SAID I’M BENEFICIAL TO MY ECOSYSTEM.

I have mixed feelings on that. I had a very similar reaction when he first took the mask off, but a) Adam Driver’s a fantastic and emotive actor, so I think his scenes are actually much more powerful when he’s not wearing the mask (especially emotional scenes like when he kills Han); and b) every time he wears the…