We need to de-normalize punching down at trans people during your comedy sets and start normalizing turning them into weird social experiments. Aaron Westberry has become one of my favorite… Read the rest of the article: Comedian guilt-trips audience into laughing

If you have even the slightest interest in peering behind the curtain into the world of game design, I cannot possibly recommend /noclip enough. No, not the console command, the… Read the rest of the article: What is the Jedi problem, and why does every game designer fear it?

I'm truly, genuinely sorry to everyone who was looking forward to helping Gabe Newell buy a hundredth yacht, but it's just an unavoidable truth: the Steam Machine is kind of… Read the rest of the article: Building a better PC than the Steam Machine for cheaper: is it possible?

Don't you just love all the innovations that the advent of AI has allowed for? There's mass disinformation, the price of consumer computing going through the roof, poisoning groundwater for… Read the rest of the article: Don't be fooled by scammer deepfakes

A while ago, fans of Better Call Saul (it's me, I'm fans) were surprised by a new piece of official content dropped out nowhere on an unassuming YouTube channel. Bob… Read the rest of the article: So that Saul Goodman return video wasn't just a one-off

Loath as I am to admit it, I think we may all have seen this coming after Valve raised the price of their Steam Deck. Naturally, this raised questions about… Read the rest of the article: Valve's Steam Machine will run you at least a thousand dollars

There are now seven Call of Duty: Black Ops games, which is honestly fewer than I thought. Even so, ask any CoD fan on the street and they'll tell you… Read the rest of the article: Call of Duty shrugs, reheats its leftovers with Black Ops remaster

Tommy Wiseau's 2004 masterpiece The Room is, perhaps, the most infamous bad movie ever made. So much so that the movie about it being made went up for an Oscar,… Read the rest of the article: Bob Odenkirk stars in straight-faced remake of The Room

If at any point you've ever doubted that Grand Theft Auto 6 will be the biggest entertainment product since the Epic of Gilgamesh, look no further than this: a thirty-second… Read the rest of the article: Grand Theft Auto 6 opens pre-orders, reveals cover art

As I've stated, I did not watch Donald Trump's masturbatory UFC Freedom 250 fight. I spent the day kicking my heels and giggling over Bob Odenkirk returning to his most… Read the rest of the article: The Good Liars went to Freedom 250 so the rest of us didn't have to

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Max Fosh is the only YouTube prankster out there worth a damn. He's not obnoxious, he isn't self-centered, and most rare… Read the rest of the article: Becoming a British royal with nothing more than confidence and an accent

How many times do you think I can get away with saying Spider-Man in this post? You know, for maximum SEO points? Let's give it a shot: The upcoming Avengers:… Read the rest of the article: Spider-Man continues to do the things only a spider can in the new trailer for the latest "Spider-Man" movie

I really, really loved Dragon's Dogma 2. Yes, even after its meme-filled moment in the sun was over. Yes, even in spite of the wholly unnecessary microtransactions that marred its… Read the rest of the article: One of my favorite games is finally getting DLC, which means I can recommend it again guilt-free

It should come as no surprise by now that I enjoy a good scambait. Scambaiting, or the art of deliberately wasting scammers' time, has become a bit of a flourishing… Read the rest of the article: Watching a middle-aged English woman enrage romance scammers is my new favorite pastime

Back when Shrek 5 was officially confirmed as a project that was, indeed, happening, I thought it was overdue. Now that an actual trailer has dropped, though, I think I'm… Read the rest of the article: Shrek 5 sure looks like another Shrek movie

You have to promise to pretend to be a little surprised when I tell you that Grand Theft Auto 4's Liberty City was based on real-life New York. I'm not… Read the rest of the article: Exploring Grand Theft Auto 4's hidden history

It's a funny world when Breaking Bad's comic relief lawyer Saul Goodman has more integrity than the sitting President. I did not tune into Trump's UFC fight, but you better… Read the rest of the article: Saul Goodman returns to celebrate America's 250th

Sixty-three arrests. Four stabbings. One shooting. When New York City gets out to celebrate, they celebrate. The city's reaction to their hometown heroes winning the NBA championships has become the… Read the rest of the article: Get uncomfortably, viscerally close to the Knicks celebration

Surely, you've seen the old movie trope where our plucky heroes duck into an abandoned car to flee from some encroaching danger, fold down the visor, and have the keys… Read the rest of the article: Why are car keys always kept in the visor in movies?

Kingdom Hearts is one of those weird franchises I've never understood, and which becomes more obscure every time I've attempted to do so. So it's like Final Fantasy, but there… Read the rest of the article: I still don't know what Kingdom Hearts is about, but there's a new one coming