Thanks for the PSA. Separate art from artist yeah yeah yeah also I don’t want to support people whom I find repugnant and I appreciate the heads up.

Fingers crossed whatever money could potentially be sent John K’s way is used for this or... literally almost anything else since he’s a monstrous bastard.

Lots of people hammering this point but in terms of actual data, LEGO is categorically cheaper per part AND by weight than it was 40 years ago, so I think this is more of a perception thing than anything else. Here’s the breakdown: https://therealityprose.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/what_happened_with_lego/. Perhaps…

Yeah, TBH I was being too coy, it is absolutely not mysterious.

FFS why did they not go with Levar Burton. He’s seasoned enough to have been getting emmy nominations when both of these hosts were in short pants. I saw some random TMZ thing where they were bugging him for comment on the matter and he was wearing a mask and shopping at Staples. Relatable, considerate, and multiple…

Welcome! I am unreasonably excited about the perspective you’ll bring roundabout these parts.

Wow, my spouse and I booted it up last night (thank you Game Pass for saving me the buyer’s remorse) for about an hour, and it’s validating to know that my early notions that it just sort of sucked were well-founded. Honestly I mostly got distracted by just contriving the most absurd possible scenarios so at least I…

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!