For someone who doesn't mean to be conspiratorial, you're doing a bang-up job.

Persona 5, some Deadwood (I'm on my second viewing, it's my fiancee's first, and we're making our way through Season 3 and loving it), and whatever else could be done on the couch with my new dog who is the best dog in the world and I love him so much.

He's a very skilled and innovative man, so he's probably found a way.

King could be the worst writer in the world, but he'd still be an actual writer, which puts him above Patterson. I think it's incredibly generous of King to even treat this as a feud of peers.

Literally every employee I worked with was at another job in 3 months' time. The food was incredible— some of the best coffee in town, and the best croissants I've ever had in America. But good lord, did that person not know how to actually manage humans.

I'm just upset as a person who actually, via having a deeply uncool childhood and being raised by folks from out West who came of age in the 70s, likes Kansas. Because a) they had other songs, people, and multiple good albums, and b) come on, can't they be in a good movie for once?

It's almost as though Christians should be careful not to practice their righteousness in front of others in order to be seen by them and should not announce it with trumpets. But that's a pretty out there idea that I bet a lot of Christians haven't been exposed to.

Hell, you want a great American Evangelical Christian whose faith inspired him? Give me a good John Brown movie, and don't skimp on the cutlassing.

Turns out that a sack of kid's letters to god was just confusing, and didn't prove much at all.

One of my favorite lines from the stories, and one I wish had made the movie, is, "We do not pray to Crom. It is best not to draw his attention."

In Lewis's defense, Tolkien was also upset that, after a mid-life conversion, Lewis has the audacity to become the wrong kind of Christian.

If that's the case, most likely. I'm so-so on the genre, but I can play FTL to relax and unwind; if that's not your headspace then it's probably not for you.

It's essentially a mafia drama, especially that ending, when everyone's murdered and the innocent kid is shepherded into the same corrupt system so he can grow up to be a monster and get murdered too. It's hopeless and cynical in a way that literature from that era seldom was.

I would absolutely say Shakespeare's better than his contemporaries. Marlowe and Webster both did great work, but the breadth and scope of Shakespeare's catalogue surpasses them.

And then, likely, died horribly. I love Leong beyond all measure (it's a side result of growing up on Bill and Ted), but let's not pretend he made it out of very many fight scenes alive.

Blade 1 and 2 are just unapologetically weird in a way that comic book movies aren't anymore. Like, no way does Spider-Man Homecoming make its big soundtrack push a Mos Def and Massive Attack cover of a Bad Brains song.

Ugh, Seagal. When Inwas in college and binging through the action greats for the first time, I though "yeah, let's do a Seagal marathon!" Big mistake. He's so goddamn unlikeable in all his movies, and his characters are just terrible.

SR3 just did it work for me at all— SR2, as wacky as it was, had a legitimately dark and antisocial vein running through it that made it feel legitimately transgressive. SR3 wants you to break rules and cause trouble, which means that when you do, it feels less special, whereas SR2 would occasionally feign horror or…

Ugh, The Witcher 3. I mean, I love it— it's a great game, I had a ton of fun with the twenty or so hours I put in, and I'm really glad it exists. Those 20-30 hours alone put it on my GOTY list that year. But I just can't convince myself to put in the time needed to finish it when I could be playing five other games in…

The difficulty curve was what kept it from really working for me too. I don't mind a punishing roguelike— FTL is one of my favorite games —but the slower pace of Invisible, Inc and the length of the campaign makes that difficulty frustrating. I don't mind making a mistake that wipes out 45 minutes of gameplay in FTL,…