Wasn't there a For Our Consideration about how the most interesting developments in video games come towards the end of a console's life cycle?

8 hours into Shadowrun Hong Kong and if you liked Dragonfall you are gonna LOVE this. The "Your name is Phyllis!" dialog tree is now legitimately my favorite moment in video gaming, 2015. You'll know it when you get to it.

Just another dude they didn't know what to do with. Did you know that WCW paid Lanny Poffo to stay home pretty much the entire time Randy was there? Randy negotiated a package deal for the two of them, and they didn't have any ideas for Lanny, so he just collected a check for doing nothing.

My not-so-secret wish is for SR5 to involve time travel. Both in the overgame (a system where you hop back and forth between different eras in Steelport's history) and in the characters (Alfred Lord Tennyson is now your homie! Call him and team up for action!)

I'd love to see Vice City revisited.

As soon as I get home I'm firing up Shadowrun: Hong Kong.

From someone who's finished a dissertation to someone who's still writing - find the moments that are yours.

I find myself using "it's not like it's tax deductible, right?" from the "Henry Swanson" bit in the brothel way more than i oughta, mostly when people ask if I need a receipt.

"We're all okay here. Everything is fine. How are you?"

See, the thing about "we work hard, we play hard" is that douchey startup-bro types have legit adapted that for their own use. It's in the "about our company" video for the place where ms. underscorex works, completely seriously, with like, footage of two salesbros high-fiving and then cutting to a corporate mandatory…

I actually find myself conjugating "to yoink" - "he yoinked it out of my hand and ran off."

An excellent choice! I refer to basically all my close friends as "brother" in that rassler tone so frequently that I didn't even consider it until now, brother.

My four years in TV news, weirdest call I ever took was a woman who wanted to know if drop-kicking a chicken was animal cruelty, because she saw someone basically punt one down the road and called the TV station instead of Animal Control.

(Actually, I find myself doing Norm McDonald as Burt Reynolds "explaining the joke" to my students from time to time. "See, it's funny 'cause it's a big hat. It's not a normal hat. It's a bigger hat.")

If it counts, wrestling "carny" talk, broadly speaking, and the term "no-sell" in particular - in the business, it means when the other guy doesn't play along with you. He's supposed to "sell" your punch, make it look painful, but if he wants to fuck with you, he'll "no sell" it and just stand there.

These guys happened right about the time I quit actively listening to new ska.

The first Berlyn promos dropped almost literally two weeks before Columbine happened. Industrial music, guy in a black trenchcoat talking about how superior he is to everyone…

I am!

It also reflects the culture of the era - guys who were breakout stars in the late 80s/early 90s are dropping dead left and right because of the rampant drug abuse at the time, but guys like Terry Funk and Harley Race, who are of the generation right before that? Still out there, hanging tough.

I believe Tony Stewart once got in deep shit with NASCAR for pointing out how convenient it is for caution flags to come out when the biggest stars are in danger of going a lap down.