Maybe it works like “Aloha?”

What impressed me about Astin’s performance was his line delivery. If I closed my eyes while he was speaking - although not when he was singing - he sounded almost exactly like Santino Fontana; inflection, dialect, everything. Nifty coincidence that it aired so close D’Arcy Carden’s work on this week’s “The Good…

I’m surprised and impressed at how invested I’ve become in Rebecca’s growth. I thought I got misty at Rebecca setting up boundaries with her mother, and then the episode had me rollercoastering from “Nonononono” over her getting schmoopy over Josh and Nathaniel, then back to super-misty: “OMG she’s identifying her…

Gulf between expectations and reality: When Paula unfolds the picture she finds in the underwear drawer, there’s a large headshot of a boy on the opposite side. I spent the episode sure we were going to learn Brendan is not-straight. Oops!

I’m amazed at how disinterested people are in problems that don’t impact them directly. What looks like obsession to you is people less privileged than you accurately describing their experience.

Having just read the self-justifying depression of the person asking for advice in the column above, it’s really nice to hear from someone who’s been there and appears to have grown a lot. Looking back on depression from a healthier place... it’s stark, isn’t it?

Apparently, it has feet. The real question is, “Which Smash Brothers fighter is cosplaying as a Piranha Plant?”

WhiJo looking swole is not new. See also “Hot Fit Guys Have Problems, Too.”

Do NOT pull the “real fans who actually remember” thing on anyone - ever - but especially not someone like Zack whose understanding of the series is pretty clear from every review he writes. Nobody who does that ever comes off well.

I’m there with him in feeling uncomfortable with parts of the episode, despite the…

...except the Venture brothers we’re current watching are probably closer to one year old, so the show is actually *much* older than Hank and Dean. Kinda. Except not.

I wish it were just “these days,” but “I want to get pregnant so people will respect me and I’ll have a child who’ll love me unconditionally” isn’t new.

You had me at “there appear to be cats.”

I dunno that I’d take the options in the Sims gallery as indicative of overall trends. I think it’s more about the limitations of Sims4's character customization plus a heapin’ helpin’ of the gallery’s curation. As to the former... well, take for example the trend that guys aren’t so much expected to shave their…

Why put makeup on a Sim? Isn’t the point of makeup to look like one just tumbled out of a video game’s character creator?

I Kickstarted this, then Kickstarted it a second time, then totally forgot about it. I didn’t play the beta or really learn much about it during development because I wanted to be surprised, and I really have been. I was expecting Quest for Glory, but not so much “Persona meets Harry Potter with less magic and more…

Hm. I’m almost tempted to throw money at this game in an attempt to encourage this kind of behavior: ditching microtransactions due to ethics is fairly impressive to me.

I’m hoping I’m reading the show right. Steven has been pretty presumptuously assuming that Ruby and Sapphire will fuse back into Garnet at the climax of the wedding, and I kinda hope they don’t. Sure, they love each other, and sure, they love being Garnet together, but Steven pressuring them to re-fuse denies Ruby and…

I think we’ve established she’s not into fellas.

*ducks and runs*

I was under the impression that Amethyst is more adept at shapechanging than the other Crystal Gems, which would probably also lend itself to how long she can hold a form. Consider how long Pink Diamond remained shapeshifted.

Oh, my gosh, I can’t believe this show got *even gayer.* It’s like someone on the production team saw the “MAKE IT GAYER!” comic and thought: “GOALS!” We’re living in hostile-as-hell Trump America, so of COURSE Steven Universe is going to have a couple of Gems get gay-married. It’s cathartic, really. Still, it makes…