Well, not necessarily. We occasionally get exceptions, if rarely. As a film critic in the ‘90s, I was particularly struck by “Event Horizon.” Laurence Fishburne is the hero who literally saves the entire universe, and though Richard T. Jones plays a somewhat stereotypic goofy black guy comic relief, he’s also the only…

Outrage! It is unconscionable to write this article without at least mentioning “Return of the Killer Tomatoes.”

This is such a fantastic comment. Words to live by.

Agreed, but if you ever get a chance to see a 70mm blowup print of Akira in a big revival theater — it’s worth it.

The second Patlabor is legit brilliant.

Here I was, all hyped to go on a righteous rant about how no one ever acknowledges “Mind Game” as one of the best movies ever made, and then you ruin everything by listing it.

Word to the wise: It’s a cool game, but it’s no Dark Souls. It wears its influences on its sleeve, but it just doesn’t quite get there. An interesting game, but without the magisterial execution, aesthetics, and philosophy of a proper Souls game, it’s merely something to do but vaguely disappointing.

Kind of a piddling response from BioWare, no? I suppose they can’t really *do* anything, but the tautological hand-waving is illusory politics at most. I mean, despite this being “never acceptable,” they are indeed accepting it. These churls will no doubt get the game and play it. BioWare will take their money.…

How in the hell has this not been starred yet?

I cannot believe that comedy theoretics are being discussed so authoritatively in a thread that refers to goddamn “The Producers” by goddamn Mel Brooks as “some comedic musical bit about Nazis.” You would think that some prerequisite knowledge would be necessary, or at least helpful, in so objectively declaiming the…

LOL. I have made this mistake, with GodWeenSatan, no less. It’s pretty mortifying to be the only one in the room who doesn’t obviously loathe the music playing — and you still can’t help crying from laughter at it. I mean, just totally hostile reactions from the other people. Still worth it.

Snooker? I hardly know her!

Yeah, it’s a co-brand with Coke called the Final Fanta Tea set.

I went through a similar experience with a film production, forever on the brink of being fully financed, that similarly plunged me into physical and mental health issues that I’m still dealing with. I’m convinced post-traumatic production syndrome will be a classifiable condition within a few years.

What is this, 2003? GPU video FX processing, transcoding, color correction, rendering and encoding via CUDA or OpenCL are industry standard now. It’s been possible in some NLEs via DXVA2 for even longer. Adobe Premiere has supported multiadapter acceleration for years (far before DX12 enabled it for games), and…

Jeez. I also did not know this, and I used to speedrun DK1 (got it down to 31 minutes, though obviously this would’ve helped a lot).

Why discriminate? Plenty of Gen-Xers and Boomers are bumble-shuffling around, too.

Uh, just think about Tails and *I*!? Sonic, your ‘90s rude ‘tude is refreshing, but your grammar here is both incorrect and pompous. That Mighty No. 9 slam, though, is both legendary and grammar-Nazi-approved.

Yep. It’s funny how, in their funding and marketing materials, they were always really humble about “Freedom Planet,” how it’s this little homage to the Sonic games they loved as children. It is, agreed, actually better than any proper Sonic game. It also has a feature that more developers should consider,…

Sonic with huge boobs, preferably with state-of-the-art jiggle physics. The jiggle-modeled boobs would affect Sonic’s momentum, adding a meta challenge to the platforming gameplay. Particularly expert players could influence their boob motion into centripetal cycles, granting them a speed boost with each swing. The…