I think I might own this, but never played it. (I won the PS3 version in a raffle about 30 seconds before my PS4 arrived.) I also just didn’t feel that motivated. I’d liked the writing, atmosphere, and gameplay of the first couple of games, but dear LORD, I hated the character designs, especially the incredibly sexist…

They’re terrifically effective. “I’ve Definitely Got Friends,” “Let’s Have Intercourse,” and “We Should Definitely Not Have Sex Right Now” have only gotten extremely brief nods, but they’ve been effective every time.

I’m really hoping that someone in the movie will refer to him as the whitest man alive.

I’ve found these articles to be helpful in learning to recognize the kind of casual indifference to people of color that’s otherwise embarrassingly invisible to me. Thumbs-up.

Hm. I bought this months ago but only started playing it a few days ago. I hadn’t been aware of the bugs, so I was really surprised by the Polygon review. I encountered a moment at which I thought I’d encountered a game freeze, but a quick character switch resolved it. I guess maybe it’s been patched...?

I fell in love first with the film and then with the book, and I’m pretty much aghast at the idea of a sequel. Yes, the book continues past the end of the film, and I suspect the reason the film is set in the 1980's is so the older Elio and Oliver late in the book could reunite in the present day as opposed to some…

Every time I read a comment to the effect of, “This reviewer shouldn’t be writing about this show because they don’t like it,” I lose a little bit of my faith in humanity.

We are living in something people keep referring to as a golden age of television. There is more genuinely terrific television out there than there…

I feared watching this episode once I glimpsed the C on this review. Sadly, the C was appropriate.

I hate that thinking about just about any element of the plot for any length of time causes it to fall apart. I don’t buy the motivations for most of the characters. If the Pride (I refuse to leave off the “the”) lives in…

A B rating is so, so generous to this episode. The deadly-serious-no-wait-farce involving the vampire coffins gave me tonal whiplash. Also, with a cast this overstuffed, I was pretty much on-board for Frank or Robert Minoru or Ms. Stein to get into the box. I’m fine with a slow burn, but this show has gone from “slow…

“A Girl in Love” laid out explicitly that Rebecca simply isn’t going to get better until she addresses her underlying issues, and the show is now suggesting that the central underlying problem is undiagnosed and untreated BPD.

You’re right, of course, that the show has repeatedly walked us through Rebecca seeming to…

This episode has reinforced my suspicion that this show has demoted the Yorkes to being mad biologists, which is a bummer. Also, it’s looking a lot like the showrunners are going to be loosey-goosey about how the Staff of One works. I’m not super-excited about that.

The show is *not living up to* the comic. Fine distinction. Maybe some comics fans are attached to the show matching the books, but a lot of us don’t need adaptations to echo the comics so much as we want the show to be excellent. “Legion” has vanishingly little to do with its comics roots, and is a better show as a…

It’s delightful, and I know they included a few other LGBT characters, as well, although not as many as Lego Avengers did. (I didn’t know Koi Boy is trans. I wonder if that’s a first for these games.) I’m also impressed that, so far, the game seems less perfunctory than the previous Lego Marvel games did about making…

Fascinating that he lost interest in Plants vs. Zombies 2, given how it tracks to my interest in the series. I’d marveled at how well-balanced the original was, and loved the progression of learning the game and honing my skills, so I could eventually breeze through levels that’d stumped me before.

PvZ2 looked shiny…

The friendship has felt awkward to me, too. It feels very “television” to me, much like Valencia dropping yoga to become a wedding planner. A lot of the replies below address that, and the show’s writers have clearly gone to some length to make the friendship viable, but it’s felt less seamless than other…

Marvel Avengers Alliance, Avengers Alliance 2, Marvel Heroes... I think I’m on something like “Fool me four times,” now, and there’s plenty of shame to go around. I’m absolutely not going to put time or money into another Marvel game (or DC, or any other property) in which my investment of time (and maybe money) can…

I’m not sure I’ve watched another so that was quite as effective in its use of callbacks. From “glitter exploding inside me” to “you really inconvenienced a lot of people” to “the situation is a lot less nuanced than that,” they always manage to grab me.

Maybe because there are so many worth writing about? Visual novels are becoming increasingly popular. Maybe they’re writing more reviews of them because they know that people like me are going to click on them.

It’s not a coincidence that many states and countries either ban gambling or regulate it heavily. This isn’t accidental: it’s controversial because there’s broad acknowledgement that it’s somewhat unpredictably dangerous.

Casinos have a certain reputation. In much of the United States, a person must go pretty far out…

-The other possibility is that he’s telling the truth and the ultimate solution to this is it becomes a way for the Discovery story to drastically change in future seasons (e.g., maybe the spores can cause travel in both time and space?), since if it is still a prequel the experiment has to be doomed to fail ...…