I’m so thankful that I gave up on ever expecting a corporation to do anything resembling the right thing years ago. Very rarely they’ll surprise me, generally by doing the absolute minimum necessary, but for the most part they constantly sink to the basement expections I have for them.

sit the fuck down.

You dipped out around the right time though. The show was still pretty good when it came back but had a sharp decline somewhere in the 07 to 10 range. It then somehow managed to find an endless bottom throughout the 2010s up to today

Same here. When I saw “20 seasons,” I realized I’ve mostly avoided it for 14ish years now.

I was just about to post an FF7R comparison. That game was made interesting not by slavishly copying what had been done before, but in taking opportunities to update the story in some ways and noticeably change it in others so that it’s not purely a repetition of its predecessor. If a remake is going to be literally…

FOR DINNER ROOM

More important:

Ok Piers.....

I’m personally not too terribly excited about the marriage drama (of...well, any of them), and much prefer when The Crown focuses on the Queen’s diplomatic roles, among other things.

Every year or two, I come back to No Man’s Sky and play it for about 20-30 hours. I really enjoy myself for that time, and it is indeed relaxing, but I just sort of lose interest. I really love that game, even though this has been my experience, and I would recommend checking it out for anyone who thinks they might be…

The psychology of giving us something good that we got used to and taking it away is interesting - I think it’ll be part of the new subscription service, so I think they’re guessing they’ll make more money with it versus who they lose. 

This feels like purely punishment - like making things worse for the sake of it. They made the distance tweak for Covid, and guess what - it made the game markedly more enjoyable! Other bonuses like remote raid bonus damage, I can kind of understand, but the added spin distance removal is egregious.

It’s still en vogue to slop disgust on Penny Arcade? I woulda thought the jaded zeitgeist would have moved on to a new target by now.

Hi Meghan!

IDK, if you’re starting to ask if something is so bad that it must be an intentional joke it’s actually just bad.

This......is not a good song. I’m sorry, but that’s just how I feel about it. I don’t really know what Lorde is trying to do with this, it’s just such a radical departure into the mundane and boring. I don’t have high hopes for the rest of the album after this.

We’ll be updating the rankings as new guest hosts are added to the lineup!

Why would you run this piece before Levar Burton hosts?

Mayim “I actually have a PhD, have I told you about it?” Bialik belongs second to last, only above Dr. Oz. She’s an anti-vax sympathizer who is currently doing commercials for some brain health supplement snake oil too.

“clueless, hueless and now-swimming pool-less” and “Gentrifier from the block”....