moakley

I guess no point in climbing Mount Everest if it's not going to be the tallest in 250M years. That's a relief.

because most parents are lazy fucks who don’t take responsibility for their kids

These laws aren't a response to a real problem. The kids are fine. The parents are usually fine. These laws are posturing at best.

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For me it's the pacing. The movies are like 11 hours long, and 8 of those hours is just reaction shots of Sam and Frodo gazing lovingly into each other's eyes.

Seriously, you could shave a few seconds off of every shot and lose nothing. It's just how Peter Jackson directs. His King Kong was the same way. You're supposed to use long reaction shots to let important moments sink in, but he does it after every line.

The music was great. I'll give it that.

Sometimes you need the convenience.

If I have to work late and don't have time to cook, and my kids need to be in bed in an hour and a half, then I'm going to pay a little extra, and that's fine.

Not everyone has a wide open schedule every night.

90s alt rock is a pretty deep genre. Music-wise, I might take the 90s over either of the decades that followed it. And I'm sure that's because it's better and not because I grew up with it.

Depends on whether or not there's a Gogoat or a Skiddo in the team.

If there isn't, then not much.

That made me look it up, and it turns out goat sucker birds predate the chupacabra by a couple thousand years. There was a myth that these birds drank goat milk (from the goat).

I remember reading the Dragonlance books in the 90s, and one character would talk about a cryptid called the "Goatsucker Bird" that was an amalgamation of those two things, and now I finally get that joke.

I'd take Diddy Kong over any version of Mario Kart, any day. It's less random, with more streamlined items and tighter mechanics.

If you haven't played Anthem, you missed out.

It has some of the tightest gameplay I've ever experienced. Combat was satisfying. Traversal was a joy.

I'll never understand how people could throw that away just because the endgame wasn't there yet. The gameplay is the hardest part to get right!

Modern games don't suck. That's a silly thing to say.

Rare's N64 platformers especially wouldn't hold up today.

Go play DK64 today and tell me it's better than a modern game. But you have to play it all the way through, all the bullshit repetitive item collection, going through the same rooms with every character to get every boring banana.

Diddy Kong Racing is a masterpiece. I don't think you played it all the way through.