ROC

What album was "Yellow Ledbetter" on? I like that song a lot.

Dazed and Confused is a damn great film. This has been ROC Notes The Obvious. Join us next week when I'll watch something else everyone already loves!

New Brows Held High! And it's on a Harmony Korine film. It's not Spring Breakers. It is very good.

I'm genuinely shocked no one had tried the coordinator cam idea before now. It seems like an immense fit for the actual strategy element in football.

Our Idiot Brother is probably one of the more charming movies I've seen in a long while. It says a lot that Paul Rudd can make a character that could easily turn into an annoying caricature into a sweet character whose presence makes the movie better when he's on screen.

I have PD on XBLA already! Let's do that!

I'm surprised less people are remarking on that actually. It made me giddy with delight. The park where the outdoor stuff was shot was also used in Fatal Deviation. It is much more landscaped now though. Back then it was just a field that occasionally had fun fairs and cattle were let graze on it. True Irish film history in our presence.

I rewatched a lot of things when they came on TV, so I'll speed up to the first time viewing I had: Killer Joe Unpleasant, but in a kind of intriguing way. The last third is genuinely insane (to the point that it actually kind of clouds what is a damn good Southern noir with a hint of comedy), but goddamn, Matthew McConaughey was great. Nice to see him express his range again, especially in a movie where he's a giant batshit bastard.

My experience with The Black Album was very similar, years past the album's original release date (definitely into the Load/Reload era). I have specific memory of eating shit fast food like Hardee's and listening to "Of Wolf and Man" and probably not even remotely caring about lyrics. I want to pretend like it is still a classic in those regards, but Sousa has probably nailed it. If I listened to the lyrics, I would probably feel like Rage Against the Machine or whatever 1990s rock act I love was subtle by comparison.

It leaves a question on the publishers, though, in terms of judging the offline base. It's certainly an outright backpedal worthy of making me suddenly wary about the PS4, but it also creates a greater question to the publisher on if single player games need online DRM. And if there's a big enough offline base, the publishers won't exactly be going the DRM direction.

So I've been trying to get into this series, but I just can't. My comp's not great for loading things anyway, but everything else just seems too dense even from the limited knowledge I've learned from the FIFA games. Is there either an earlier installment that feels less dense or is FIFA Manager just going to me more my thing?

Travis Porter?

Wait, what?

Oh my Christ, this is the guy who did "Addicted to Jesus" isn't it? Oh god, I knew that even slightly. Oh shit.

That sucks. Edith was the important base of that show, and Jean Stapleton did some fantastic work. She made Archie human, as opposed to what everyone would've assumed is just a racist wisecrack machine. RIP. But on a positive note, the return of the cult-beloved (GoGo and myself) Aquabats Super Show was this afternoon on the Hub. And it didn't lose a step in being a glorious camp wonder.

Pretty well alright with whenever.

Me too!

I think this piece that Jenn Frank wrote gets at what I think is a good purpose for why this series should exist. It takes a lot of stock in Sarkeesian's first minute of noting that we can get enjoyment out of things that are also problematic, but also plays with the idea of if problematic things can be intentional or lazy story-making. https://medium.com/play-time/dd2d4df6b94

I'm half and half on the length thing. Sometimes I will zone out during the especially info-dump laden episodes (George Sr.'s eps for me), but then I will have it on in the background and pay attention and then suddenly hear "On the next Arrested Development" and be genuinely surprised.

I do like the use of skill trees in all of these sports games. Nice to see gaming is catching up with the glorious nerdiness of everything else. However, I'm still hoping that they find even a minor way to integrate a playoff in this installment. It's something that I personally have begged for since realizing the last game in the series with a playoff option was back in the PS1 era, but even more than that, it seems like the legalese that kept them from doing it before (pissing off the BCS) is about to die anyway. I just want to see a playoff in a college football game before the PS4/Xbox One generation, please.

There's not a better one. The end. Close thread.

Close the poll. Ham wins it.