Full disclosure for the Tree of Life trailer: A huge part of it is that it’s scored with the Moldau, which 9 times out of 10 can bring me to tears because it’s just such a beautiful piece of music.

Not sure which movie you’re referring to, but I agree either way! And pretty much for the same reason — that they were so good the movie inevitably felt a little disappointing compared to how well they condensed what I wanted the movie to be vs. what it was. And yeah, somewhat unsurprisingly I watch either trailer…

Right? And I don’t even really like the Smashing Pumpkins. But sensorily it was synchronized in a really pleasing way.

Gonna throw Watchmen on this list. I absolutely adored that trailer.

Aw man, my grandpa worked on the world’s first air to air atomic bomb and all he created after that was a bunch of emotionally abusive family members whom I don’t talk to any more.

The collector’s scene is blowing up for semi-contemporary consoles too. I saw someone talking about being pumped about getting Game and Wario for the Wii U sealed. I remembered that I bought a few Wii U games on a lark and never opened them with the intention of eventually flipping them... Devil’s Third is worth a few…

Harrowing and fascinating story Mike, thank you for sharing. I often feel the urge to say this since ya’ll have a bunch of lovely writers on staff but: This is a story only you could write, and I’m very grateful that you did.

The wild thing about all of this is that the inclusion of Starro feels like some weird backhanded response (or maybe make good) on the fact that Snyder cut the giant fucking apocalyptic octopus (apoctopus) from the ending of his adaptation of The Watchmen. So I guess good for James Gunn for making Zach Snyder look…

No Senator Tankerbell, we’re cutting ARTS funding, not HEARTS funding.

Thanks for your great work Ash! I’ve enjoyed your tremendous writing and can’t wait to see what you do next!

Here’s a fun thing that I tweeted in 2014 right after PAX East (heard in line at the Giant Bomb meetup — shame on you duder):

IIRC Colorado has been flip flopping on this very issue and it’s maddening. My spouse and I bought an S-Cargo earlier this year and every single interaction with the DMV involves a lot of hemming and hawing about how it’s a van but not a kei class car and is essentially just an 89 Sentra under the hood.

If you’re saying “own” and not “owned” after the last year then good on you! Ya’ll are doing the work to keep the scene going and I appreciate you for it!

Wow I despised that movie. It just seemed so smugly smitten with its own cleverness... and I tend to otherwise be ok with that sort of haughtiness. Maybe I need to see it again.

Between the comparatively incremental upgrades (I mean, we’ll probably never have another 2D -> 3D or SD -> HD sea change again), and the global pandemic, the typical 1 or 2 year wait before a new gen comes into its own... hits differently this time around. Here’s to better days.

God this looks so good. And may I just point out that having Colin Stetson scoring it is obscenely exciting.

Totally, sorry, I worded that really poorly, that’s what I hoped to get at but obviously missed the mark. Maybe I just got up on the wrong side of the bed today, but having an avatar slipped into the gameplay loop just struck me as odd. I am excited and will definitely play it, but I’m also an old who would be happy…

I love me some WarioWare but I’m gonna say the thing and be a little skeptical. It feels like this could be intrinsically a bit slow and awkward, and designing microgames to be solved multiple ways could come at a loss of focus. Sort of a... Scribblenautsification of WW...? I am pumped to be proven wrong though, it…

Neon 2.5D thingy! Sign me up. Just please don’t turn out to be developed by a jerkoff like the last one.

What a tremendous labor of love. Different times.