I just have to pop in and say—as someone who’s never played a strategic art-card game beyond a bit of Pokémon with the wife—that I adore everything about this conversation! The knowledge on display, the cool looking cards, the friendly back and forth. I kept reading along, thinking “I know nothing of what these people…

You didn’t need to know about bacteria to understand that poking a hole in someone and at the same time inserting cow shit could lead to, well, problems!

I didn’t see it as either a happy or sad ending. I’d say it was strongly ambiguous, I guess. 

No, they would need to pay for reporting too. Journalists who eat do better work. No one seems to think they need to pay for news anymore—the people consuming it don’t want to pay for it, it’s free all over their social media, after all; the people running the news outlets don’t want to pay reporters when they could…

Eh, it’s a sad thing she’ll have to deal with eventually, may as well get it out of the way. After all, the real tragedy is a parent outliving their kids, and in this case it seems like it would be extra tragic. He oughta just keel over.

F’in’ eh

We leave “what matters” to the courts, ‘round hea’h!

The entire landscape of television has changed, and I don’t think you’re taking that into account, here. Used to be the A.V. Club had a week between every episode of pretty much anything. Now it’s *shudder* a “binge-race” economy. Imagine the outrage if they were like, “We’re going to focus our Stranger Things…

Jealousy isn’t exactly a taught behavior, though, it’s instinctive. We have to teach kids to overcome it, because it’s totally natural.

You didn’t miss it, you just showed up late. Killing Nazis is evergreen.

Fuckin’ eh.

It was an emotionally draining game to play through. Lots of “oh fuck, it’s really going there” moments that it just kept pulling off perfectly. Like arriving at the camp. If ever there was a “too far” moment, I thought, here it comes. Then you’re ripping the place (and the Nazis therein) to shreds in a goddamn mech…

“The author spends a lot of time judging the movies/story on a criteria that most viewers/readers don’t use to judge, at least not primarily.”

Statham’s “I now pronounce you man and knife” was in 2 wasn’t it. That’s a quality quip.

I watched Day of Reckoning with a concussion (I was home recovering from getting hit by a car) so it was extra surreal and nightmarish. 

Yup, I hope this pun thread gains some traction.

Just once I’d like to see something where the mystery solver is walking past their elaborate and not at all stupid yarn-connected conspiracy board, snags a pinhead on their sweater, and accidentally pulls the whole thing apart. Then they just say fuck it and give up on the mystery.

Yeah, the buffs largely go by the wayside pretty early on, and it just becomes a matter instead of having a team equipped to take on all the disparate attacks you may face.