China, IL is awesome, and so is Adult Swim

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Cartoon, insane, hilarious, doesn't take itself seriously at all, and yet has a beating heart. The characters are well-written, the dialogue is engaging. Never a boring moment. You won't regret it.

Here's the show's page on Adult Swim.

Here's show creator Brad Neely's China, IL predecessor comic, Baby Cakes.

So start with either, I've given you all I could possibly give you, time management enthusiast.

Adult Swim, for the past few years, has been hitting it out of the park. The shows they run are the best in modern comedy, from Tim & Eric, The Heart, She Holler, The Eric Andre Show, Frisky Dingo, Bob's Burgers, Metalocalypse, NTSF:SD:SUV, Rick & Morty, Sealab 2021, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, and The Venture Brothers.

And those are merely my favorites—the above list barely scratches the surface of the total number of programs they air.

Plus their homepage design has been awesome lately, and they've been running series-long marathons of one show at a time, available to watch right there when you visit the site.

TVT recommends.

The A.V. Club's review of Watch Dogs is amazing

Watch Dogs apparently does not overcome my least favorite modern gaming trope—that of being marketed towards 12-year-old white males.

Here is The A.V. Club's review of Watch Dogs that opened my eyes. Cool title, too: "Watch Dogs takes a great idea and bludgeons it with normality." Great writing, John Teti. I mean, you knocked it outta the park with this one.

As per usual, The A.V. Club comes out on top of this debate, writing intelligent article after intelligent article. And I'm really glad they're writing these articles, because the gaming industry is held by the balls of corporate interests ensuring that modern games do not rise above the maturity level of elementary schoolers.

Okay, let me rephrase that: Bethesda makes awesome stuff for adults. Nintendo makes really great stuff for kids that adults also love. Rockstar makes games for 12-year-old boys (with the exception of L.A. Noir). Capcom makes games for 12-year-old boys. Konami makes games for 12-year-old boys.

Chauvinism permeates all of it. It's a boys' club. A white boys' club (have you seen any major games feature non-white-male protagonists lately?).

With all the technology modern games run on, wouldn't it be nice if the writing could rise to the level of, for example, great cinema? You'd have complete marriage of aesthetics and concept. It would be so wonderful.

You know what I also think? Make Link a female in the next game, Nintendo! And make Zelda a prince that gets kidnapped!

Movies to Watch in 2014

The Wrap has compiled a great list of upcoming movies to watch this year. Among them are new works by Darren Aronofsky, Lars Von Trier, Wes Anderson, and George Clooney. It left me with lots of thoughts! Here are several of them.

Acquiring Fallout 3's Unique Weapon, The Firelance: A Story of Desire, Greeeeed, Lust, Loss, and Hope

To start with, let me just say that I was probably just two or three in-game feet from The Firelance, the best weapon and the most difficult to obtain in the entire Wasteland, and ... I just ... didn't see it. I mean, it must have been right there, just sitting there on the ground, among the dirt and weeds, and I must have walked right over it!

The Genius of Survivor 2299 & Viral Marketing

So in case you haven't heard, there's talk of Fallout 4 on the wind.

Here's where it all started, a few days ago:
http://www.thesurvivor2299.com/

There's a countdown clock, Fallout-style fonts, black and white simplicity, the Vault-Tek logo, and Morse Code, and it's blowing up a certain corner of the internet.

Decrepit Usurper: Fallout 3 Evil Character Playthru

The Fallout series is groundbreaking. My favorite game series since Final Fantasy. I'm fucking itching for Fallout 4. Itching. Itchy. Tasty.

Resident Evil 6 going to black screen of death on my PS3. No good. Must get Capcom to fix. Have to play Fallout 3 now after kids go to bed.

Spoilers for those who haven't played follow.

Watch the Angry Video Game Nerd re-enact fan-requested scenes

James Rolfe, The Angry Video Game Nerd, is a pleasure to watch interacting with fans. I love this guy. I don't even know what Magfest is.