Five years, baby. Give it five years, wait for a nice sale, and then consider taking the entirely exorbitant plunge. It'll be good for letting the solutions and some of the bigger memories fade just a little, too.

It's probably just that the game was never released in Japan. It was made by a Nintendo developer in the U.S. with the intent to make a game to sell to American audiences, and NCL never bothered to localize it. Too bad, honestly; maybe Retro could do something with the property?

I also think Nintendo might have a somewhat more narrow view of what 2D Mario game do (where, by contrast, they have a much wider one for what 3D Mario can do). Donkey Kong Country was never their thing - and if we're being fair, Tropical Freeze probably outclasses all of the Rare iterations - so it was easier for…

I really disliked the ending scene. Batman carrying Joker's body tragically like the Pietà felt absurd; he's mourning a brutal serial killer.*

I've criticized Arkham City a lot since I started commenting here, and it really all comes just from this game. Some pretty bad writing (a character saying "I'm afraid it's only just begun" right before the final boss fight should have set off some red flags for the editor), Asylum is just an excellent mixture of…

So on Father’s Day, my dad killed a Guardian.

We also need the previous Murder Report videos to work again. I miss Teti's jaunty lauds of the industry's greatest killers (after carpal tunnel and John Romero).

I'm having a hard time how to fix that in this kind of game. With Smash or other games like it, you can usually go into different servers or groups for a level that's less oriented to more competitive play. But this…it's almost more like a role-playing session, and that's not really something that lends itself to that…

Jason Takes Manhattan was almost certainly going to just be "Jason on a boat" before adding the Manhattan stuff later, and it'd have probably not been as disappointing had they not added the final act that was needless but still the only thing people wanted to see. It's the reason I put Jason X as possibly my…

The inherent unfairness and even the glitches sound pretty damn close to the games. I'm being reminded of one of the most hokey of them all, Jason Takes Manhattan, in which Jason sneaks his way onto this cruise ship in Crystal Lake and crushes a sauna user with hot rocks within minutes of the opening. There's no…

To its credit, this does seem like it's kind of defined by its need for human avatars at the wheel for every participant even more than traditional multiplayer games. You could maybe have had (and the game probably should have included) a single player mode or modes with smart bots, but it's reminiscent of something…

Inventor, if only because while any old yutz can become a science teacher or inventor, you did specify "brilliant."

John Henry probably died proving a Transformer couldn't drive more steel than a non-robot, human-shaped person.

A show about an autistic Jewish caricature who falls into dysfunctional relationships? I better be getting some of that overwritten House of Cards money for royalties, Netflix.

Technically, his staff's deleting his Tweets is kind of an impeachable offense, given that it's a direct violation of the President Records Act, right?

"R.I.P. Bill O'Reilly, author of Those Who Trespass and former television host."

I suspect they will…albeit only a while after he leaves or dies. They'll slowly distance themselves from him and pull the "economic anxiety" claims about why they voted for him (it'll never be "supported him." They didn't have a choice, right?). For a while before that they'll talk about how he was a victim of the…

I think it's less "stupidity" and more willful ignorance. Rightwing militant types want to believe that, say, their guns are right on the verge of being taken away, because that justifies their attitude and beliefs about the country about to collapse in a verge of race wars. So of course the government will do…

Entirely out of nowhere David Cronenberg cameos for even longer!

Wait, Odin wasn't responsible in the books? That seemed so likely I expected that to have happened (what little of the audiobook I listened to seemed to foreshadow it). And it's not even something that feels trite; it's exactly the kind of shit Wednesday would pull.