The first time I heard Christian Bale speaking with a British accent I thought for sure it was fake (and a bad fake at that), but it turns out his American accent is just more believable than his actual voice.

I wouldn’t exactly say that the humour in The Stanley Parable lands. Orthat it has humour, or entertainment value, or any compelling reason to play it whatsoever, but I can say that it's a video game that exists that's for damn sure.

It was the kind of perfectly mediocre episode that the Chibnall era has been missing. It was not good, but at least it felt like Doctor Who

I don’t remember hearing anything about them treating it poorly, beyond the ridiculous scheduling, but that’s kind of the standard these days. Is there other stuff?

He’s got one joke and an annoying laugh

You can't even unlock half the abilities until hard mode, which you can't unlock until you beat normal, so there's definitely a feeling that they expect you to play through more than once. As to the combat, I loved the paradigm system in the first XIII, but adapting it to one person is a little strange. And it makes…

I’ve seen people say that Normal difficulty is hard and Easy is normal in this game, and that checks out because the combat is brutal. I've never been any good at precision parrying either, and the combat needs you to be good at it. Still, I figure when I go back to it I'll muddle through it and then restart with all…

I’m trying to clear out some of the smaller games I started and never finished before moving on to maybe clearing some bigger ones. Last weekend I finished Gris and Iconoclasts, and this weekend I hope to finish up Echo. After that I might go back and finish Death Stranding or Lightning Returns, but more than likely…

One big piece of advice for Baldur’s Gate: turn on cheats. Then you can use Ctrl-J to jump to wherever the cursor is which evens out how slow movement can be. More importantly it’s nice to be able to jump to whichever part of town you need to be in.

At least something happened in this episode. That's more than I can say for last season, and the big reveal at the end was pretty good

I need to know what this terrible rumour is; I love terrible rumours

Okay, but if you want a movie about class that’s also good you could watch Parasite, Knives Out, or Ready or Not. Pretty good year for movies about class actually, no need to settle for Joker.

Two words: Mid. Sommar.

It’s especially weird because the reason they’re all split up in TLJ is that they’re all split up at the end of TFA, and JJ left Johnson with a cliffhanger that had to be immediately resolved.

I haven’t watched his videos in a while, are they still just him saying “it was bad” without any interesting criticism, and then occasionally there’s an aside about how many women he’s murdered?

But to what end? Yeah you can run around on the world map, but ultimately you’re just moving from point A to point B. Aside from XII, there's usually very little to find on the world maps. What's the point of exploring if there's nothing to find?

I think that’s by design though. You can’t go back because the entire military is chasing you and it would make no sense if you could just go back the way you came. The gameplay is in service to the story. As to your other points having towns you can run around in world design not game design and doesn’t make a game…

The characters in 13 spend most of the game on the run from the military, which results in a constant sense of forward momentum. This means there's no side quests and very little time spent in towns, but that doesn't really make the game any more or less linear. Every Final Fantasy is linear, you just notice it more…

Oh right, I forgot about that. But yeah, given they were a secret Ollie could still be the first modern, public hero.

Nobody who has suffered under Capitalism, or you know, has read a history book, thinks Capitalism is a good thing. It’s just old burnt out yuppies, dumb Boomers who think they’re oppressed, and actual violent revolutionaries who think Capitalism works. Ask the ghosts of 100 million people who died under its heel in…