Yup, it’s a funny show.

Thanks for this thorough overview. I say this as a straight white cis guy, but what baffles me so much about pop culture gatekeeping in its depressingly myriad forms, is how refreshing it is to see a new or under explored perspective. My wife and I just watched the finale of BLSS last night and even when the sketches…

I mean, it’s a testament given how well the art direction holds up.

Images of the centaur boss from the first stage of Actraiser made my young self weep, I thought they were so amazing.

I think how the combination of age and multiple console evolutions have made me fairly blasé toward the generational refinement of digital fidelity and compare that to the religious awe in which I held a 16-bit fire flower and marvel.

Before the SNES came out, I remember just fixating on the previews in gaming mags. I would stand, completely immobile, poring over every pixel of the screens from Super Mario World. I couldn’t believe the level of detail and range of colors. It was as close to sublime as my adolescent self had ever felt.

1. It is an absolutely lovely home.

Yeah, the big problem with that strained pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps metaphor is that each stitch is just a part of the the same thread.  That guy is kinda a big flag dummy.

Terry’s just out in the parking lot getting into fights waiting for his 16-year-old girlfriend to get off of work.

Reading this reminds me of first playing Fatal Fury in the arcades as a kid. I know no one plays Japanese fighting games for their geographic integrity, but it still cracks me up to see Mount Rushmore among the arid mesas of the Southwest.

Progressive’s general aversion to simplistic insults or catchphrases do us a real disservice in the shit-strewn Colosseum of politics. I’m completely guilty of this because I hate chants and dumbed-down monikers, but while we’re busy trying to capture that ineffable je ne sais quoi of the Republican’s terribleness,…

The only thing worse (to me) than a boss fight is a boss fight where you don’t get rewarded with anything afterwards.

I quit games before or at final bosses all the time. I play games primarily for the exploration and when I can feel the curve pass it’s most open point and begin narrowing towards the final encounter, I begin to lose interest. Few games have a narrative so interesting that it extends to the game’s climax. All the good…

I really enjoyed Meyerowitz stories, and this looks like it’ll wreck me.

I’ve been listening to this one off of United States Live again a lot recently:

I understand why this would be prohibitive to implement, but it would be fantastic if you could choose one of the natives as an alternate starting character tasked with learning more about the colonizers, and acting on whatever mix of diplomacy and warfare the player decides.

Building off of a concept I first heard from a John Hodgman story about rewriting Episode 1 as a form of grief therapy, Anakin should have for sure been introduced older. Closer to his Episode 2 age. What I would have liked is if he were still enslaved, but working on an indentured moisture factory farm in a parallel…

This is absolutely 110% my shit.

Yes, I will be watching this show.

I certainly haven’t gotten the vibe from any of these trailers that the Rorschach Militia is anything but a completely horrible group of reactionary extremists in the vein of emergent right wing militias we’re seeing today. I don’t get the vibe that the masked cops are heroes, either. I guess my best hope for the…