Some of my favorites:

• GLaDOS from Portal 1+2: Ellen McClain did such a fantastic job balancing a monotonous robotic tone with human emotions and adding subtle glitches to show not everything was 100% alright. She defined what a female robot voice should sound like for that decade. I saw that Stephen Merchant was mentioned and while his performance was good and Wheatley’s character was hilarious, I think McLain’s performance as GLaDOS was more original and memorable.
• Narrator from The Stanley Parable: Kevan Brighting was arguably the protagonist of the game and the player was the annoying mob to him. As the only chacter with dialogue in the entire walking sim game, he had to carry almost the entire game’s story, personality, and charm all through his voice. And it’s honestly so fun how disappointed, annoyed, and exasperated he gets when the player refuses to listen.
• The Joker from Batman Arkham Asylum: This one is cheating cause Mark Hamill has played The Joker in almost every modern animated medium available. Still, there’s a reason his version is so iconic. It’s just so bittersweet that he refuses to ever voice The Joker again since Kevin Conroy, the VA for his Batman passed away.

Edit: After reviewing my list, it seems like I like offscreen narrators who insult the player. How funny

Helps to wave your arms back and forth while saying it

Just realized this is likely the original version of that 80s movie, Three Men and a Baby, which I also need to see

I guess it’s more of a trope than a genre but it was what I first thought about. Most of the genres I enjoy aren’t guilty pleasures since I don’t have any guilt in liking them.

Found family movies and shows, however, make me feel a little guilty since my parents weren’t necessarily but more emotionally distant. So it’s like a tinge of sadness when watching them.

Yeah that looks like right up my alley. Thanks!

Gotta be found family movies, particularly if the parental figure didn’t want the responsibility in the first place or if they’re clueless, gruff, and/or emotionally not prepared for a child.

So movies like Logan, Ice Age, Wild Robot, Up, or Despicable Me and shows like The Last of Us, The Mandalorian, Game of Thrones (Arya and the Hound), and The Witcher.

I was trying to think of more found family mother shows and movies and honestly couldn’t think of more. Most of the ones involving women that I could find are of friend groups or there was no hesitation to pretty much adopt the child.

I’ve got 2 groups of 2 friends each that I keep in touch with every 2-3 months. Well, one friend lives about a 8 hour car ride away so I only see her actually about once a year. We always have to plan at least 2 weeks if not a month in advance for meet ups but we still all make the effort.

I think that’s the hardest part is finding people who are worth the effort and are willing to make the effort in return. What I find works for my friends who are pretty different from each other is to find shared interests and do that. One group likes trying new places to eat and going shopping (a lot of times are H-Mart and Daiso). The other likes to watch movies and the review them together.

She has to be the most quotable video game character ever.

How are you holding up? BECAUSE I’M A POTATO. clap clap clap Oh good. My slow clap processor made it into this thing. So we have that

If you become light headed from thirst, feel free to pass out.

Here come the test results: You are a horrible person. We weren’t even testing for that

Protagonist has got to be Bayonetta (though it’s based only on the first game). Her character growth in the first game was so good, even if the plot was a little convoluted. Never finished the second one since I didn’t like playing on the Switch and never played the third one. Hope her character is still good though.

Honorable mentions are Kassandra from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite, and Stelle from Honkai Star Rail (though this one is mostly for the absolutely ridiculous dialogue options we get to choose).

Favorite female antagonist is hands down GLaDOS. Such a fun, sarcastic, and likeable villain.

I did not know that about the artist. To each his own but maybe don’t put weird fetish stuff into regular anime.

You haven’t heard of the songs or the anime? Almost all of them are pretty main stream.

I forgot how much the animation for Spy X Family improved in season 2 for the opening and ending. They’re super beautiful

Just every opening and ending theme

Some of my personal favorite openings:

• Elfen Lied: the anime itself was kind of ok but the opening and first like 10 minutes are so memorable. Been decades since I’ve seen it so maybe the plot is better than what I remember. Doesn’t change the fact that this opening is hauntingly beautiful
• One Punch Man: such a good hype up song. The song makes you feel like you can do anything
• Pokémon (Kanto League): another great hype up song though I think a large part of it is how nostalgic it makes me since it was my first anime

And Endings:

• Inuyasha (Every Heart by BoA): like Pokémon, I think a good reason I like this song so much is the nostalgia. But even taking that out, the ending is a great example of jpop from the early 2000s. Fun fact, the singer is actually a kpop star and has also released this song in English and Korean. Growing up only hearing the Japanese version, it’s super weird to hear it in any other language especially from the same voice.
• Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1: the chill hip hop vibes and cool animation are such a fun way to palate cleanse all the gore and seriousness of each episode
• Asobi Asobase: everything about this ending is great. The psychotic visuals, the cute anime girl vocals, the heavy metal backdrop. What makes it even better is just how much it contrasts with the show’s opening. Many of the comments for both videos point out this hilarious disparity.

Woman on the right is Alice Weidel. According to Wikipedia, she’s “a German far-right politician who has been serving as co-chairwoman of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party alongside Tino Chrupalla since June 2022. Since October 2017, she has held the position of leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag.” She admires former conservative British PM Margaret Thatcher and has worked with Hungary’s far-right PM Victor Orban. She is staunchly against asylum seekers stating that they should not receive health insurance and has been in favor fo burqa, niqab, and headscarf bans. Although she herself is a lesbian, she only supports civil partnerships for gay couples and opposes same-sex marriage and early sexualization education.

Sanae Takaichi, the likely next PM of Japan, is an ultra-conservative politician who, like Weidel,also admires Margaret Thatcher. According to PBS, “Takaichi supports the imperial family’s male-only succession, opposes same-sex marriage and…is a wartime history revisionist and China hawk.” Though it seems like she does have some policies that would benefit women, experts fear she’ll actually set women back because she needs to show loyalty to the male heavyweights in order to keep her position.

True but Bluetooth controllers aren’t so expensive now and many work well with emulators. If you have an Xbox or PS4 or PS5, you could pair those controllers as well.

Dear video game developers,

There are too many video games nowadays. Please eliminate three.

I am not a crackpot.

That’s really great to hear that you’re open to exploring! I’ve not heard of Rewrite but I do like Asian Kung Fu Generation. Good luck with your journey and keep me posted once in a while with what you like or didn’t like!

The joke works because intelligence tests follow a normal bell curve. Therefore, approximately half of the population would actually fall below average.

From what I understand based on Colbert’s monologue, their motivations for suspending Kimmel is completely monetary based. ABC affiliate company Nexstar made a $6.2 billion deal to acquire TEGNA Inc and Disney which owns ABC made a deal to get some NFL assets in exchange for a 10% stake in ESPN (valued at around $3 billion).

Both of these acquisitions will need FCC approval to go through. Take a guess at what they’re willing to do to get that approval.

Since you’ve seen a few of my must-see movies, I’ve decided to watch one of yours. I always wanted to watch more film noir movies since I always like when shows do film noir spoofs so I watched Sunset Blvd. In fact, there was a Tiny Toons Adventure parody called Sepulveda Blvd.

While there were some glaring plot points (like why didn’t Max just continue making movies that starred Norma?), it was a good watch overall. Even though we know what happens since it shows the ending first, I wasn’t sure where the plot was going. The actress who played Norma did such a good job at making the audience feel fearful and sympathetic towards Norma. If I watch any of the other movies on your list I’ll let you know.