Penny Arcade

I'm not, like… mad, it's a great comfort to me if something looks so dumb that it's going to save me the time of watching it. I've put Morbius in that category after the trailer. I was iffy before Jared Leto says he has "some form of bat radar," and that utterance sheared the entire face of it off. And look, I love to be wrong. If you aren't working on a nuclear warhead, it's probably fine to be wrong. I love to move things from the category of Oblivion back…

I was reading an article at Kotaku about how this "Mario Kart 'NFT' Idea" was "The Worst Thing" they "Had Ever Read." I'm leaving the obvious rejoinders on the ground; that's a good place for them generally. Suffice it to say, it's not the worst thing I've ever read. But that doesn't mean I actually like it. Entitled "Into the Metaverse: Where Crypto, Gaming and Capitalism Collide," and the sense of growing unease you feel - which sometimes manifests as an…

It’s almost time for the 2021 Child’s Play dinner and auction. I know there are some who were hoping for a return to the in-person “Nerd Prom” but a poll of recent attendees showed that most of us just aren’t ready to leave the safety of our bunkers. With that in mind, this year's Child’s Play charity dinner auction has been moved to the virtumal realms similar to last year’s event. The nice thing about this is that we can all attend in our pajamas…

I was in bed the other night watching Mark Zuckerberg get dressed in VR and make some kinda joke about something and I had to pause it. I just had to rest. I had to let my mind rest. I urge you to look at things like the recently unsealed documents related to a program called "Jedi Blue," which essentially is Facebook and Google colluding to dominate online advertising even more than they were already dominating it. I love the Star Wars ref; big nerd energy in here. Are cartels poggers?…