Oh man. RIP, the Powers that Boothe.

Look, I know it's a pedantic observation that only nerds care about, but I'm not going to pass up someone with a Minutemen avatar forgetting that there's no "the" in Talking Heads.

And the Bowie looked at me!

It was so weird for me when I finally played the original. If heard for years that it was an artistic masterpiece that changed the nature of game narratives forever, and I found the writing to be really overwrought and cheesy— but the mechanics were some of the best third-person shooter gameplay I'd ever seen.

It's also one of the only major-release video games that feels really personal and autobiographical, what with it being about a writer of hard-boiled crime fiction whose work is stolen from him to feed the power of an uncaring monster, at the same time that the game's writer, Sam Lake, was watching other people…

I got so excited when that song cued up. One of my favorite Cave tracks, and it definitely deserves more of a place in pop culture.

You probably don't keep up with the queercore scene, then, cause they're a pretty big deal in their genre. Thanks for contributing, though.

It's also self-reinforcing. When the atheist community is dominated by the likes of Richard "shut up about rape culture, you're lucky you don't live in savage heathen Arabia" Dawkins, it's hard for someone who's not capable of stomaching misogyny to want to be a part of that community, and people who are very invested…

Jesus Christ, I'm not happy about hearing that, but thanks for getting the word out.

What if the artist's art is explicitly about their support for the same queer people that they're victimizing? That really doesn't work so hot with artists who do extremely personal work about queer rights and perform in queer safe spaces while violating those same rights and being unsafe to be around.

#Suzerain

Guy Incognito's been kind of on a tear the past few days with posts that I see, think, "Huh, I thought this was a reasonable poster, so this is probably a joke," and then realize aren't.

Yeah, the twist feels very much a part of the gender politics of its time, and, as much as I love Banks, his handling of sex and gender issues was never his strongest suit— The Culture is a post-ideology anarcho-socialist utopia, but 95% of the Culture women we see still act and dress like modern women, and I don't…

I feel compelled to point out that, after co-starring in that Oscar-winning romance, Cage's very next major role was Vampire's Kiss.

Awww, DmC is great! A lot of people were down on it because it's so different, but I'd rather it be a totally different team making a radically different game than Capcom just pumping out similar sequels without the original team's involvement, which is the alternative. I love how easy it is to switch weapons…

David Cage is probably my least favorite game designer, and I loved Until Dawn. It succeeds in a lot of the ways his games do not work for me (having a sense of humor, good performances, and actually working with a plot that suits the gameplay, for example).

Still Persona.

Junji Ito's "The Thing That Drifted Ashore."

That reminds me of a friend of mine in high school, who bought Cannibal Holocaust, having never heard of it, from a bootleg DVD vendor on the streets of Bangkok.

Under the Skin left me queasy and uncomfortable all the way though, but it was an exciting and fun kind of queasy and uncomfortable.