If you told me this was the cast of The Bold & The Beautiful I would not argue with you. These are some soap-opera names.

They need both a Krystal-Leigh and a Krysta-Leigh!

Did they shoot this in Australia? Are those spotted gums and a banksia in the background?

Eh, but then again, sports never claim to be art, or have any desire to be seen as art (well, maybe those weird “judged” sports like equestrian and rhythmic gymnastics). Gamers make that claim all the time. I’m not a sports guy, but I have no beef with it.

I’ve often wondered what the fuck is the point of all this performative indignation at various indiscretions if no one’s allowed to come back from said indiscretions. I mean, what’s the point?

I’d like to take this opportunity to say that Psychonauts 2 is available on gamepass right now...

This is the AV Club, where if you’re mildly famous and tweet “I’m not really into Vietnamese food”, Sam Barsanti will try to get you cancelled for being racist.

Of course you don’t know where to start: most gamers don’t have a wide enough frame of reference.

I thought you nerds loved 80s references:

Your response is a not unexpected nerd response: one that’s wholly unoriginal, that makes no points and, because of that, instead resorts to attacking both the style of the the argument and myself instead of trying to refute.

I have two problems with video game writing:

Neckbeards who failed at basic life skills trying to spin that into being technologically advanced and thus “cool” as well as being too “busy” to be able to do stuff the normies do - that’s who these startups are aimed at.

I’m still waiting for someone to use a slowed-down, minor-key, hipster-sung version of TISM’s “I Might Be A Cunt (But I’m Not A Fucking Cunt)” for something.

To be fair, Casino Royale also considered James Bond’s balls.

It was an inside job.

Eh, we know you guys won the Civil War.

Where’s the steering column?

“WHY YOU SWORD GUYS ALWAYS GOTTA TALK ABOUT HOW COOL YOUR SWORDS ARE?”