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Highly Suspect Reviews: Best of 2025 Part Two BEST OF 2025 PART TWO If you have listened to our Best Of podcasts in the past, you expect to hear Professor Jeff from Rage Select give some of his favorite games (and usually animes) of the year. This year the timing didn’t work out for him to join us at our ‘big crew’ recording, so Chris went to him. The two of them sit down and let Jeff give his Top Ten Games of 2025 (and THEN some) while Chris asks the pertinent questions and chimes in when there’s actually one he’s played.   YOUR REVIEWERS   Christopher Lawrence […] read more on

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker SPOILERCAST

Watch a Movie With Us: The Empire Strikes Back WATCH A MOVIE WITH US: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Our ambitious Star Wars commentary project continues on to what is certainly thought of in most circles as the high point for the series, The Empire Strikes Back. We got Chris, Jason Murphy, Rage Select Jeff, and Beau together to tackle this classic and as you… Read More »Watch a Movie With Us: The Empire Strikes Back read more on One of Us

Check out me, Michael, and Jeff as we destroy the world and scream profanities at each other.

Watch a Movie With Us: Resident Evil: Vendetta It's Rage Select meets Oneofus as the two website heads meet up in the middle to give a much-needed commentary track to the CG animated film (and the third in the 'trilogy'), Resident Evil: Vendetta. It had to happen. Trust me. If you're a subscriber at the Time Lord level or above, you can... read more on One of Us

Rage Select Sequential Saturday: Alan Wake

I recorded an episode of Rage Select’s “Dojo” the other day with Jeff, owner of the website (for those curious, you can see our Let’s Play of Who’s Your Daddy here: https://youtu.be/C6_UO84tM_c), and afterwards we hit up the nearby bar for their half-dollar hotwings and beer. Jeff and I had a loooooong talk about, well, lots of stuff. One thing that came up was something Jeff had been mulling over for a while: What is the actual point of negative internet criticism? I don’t mean people who’s job it is to critique movies. And I don’t mean critiques in general. I mean people who seek out those who have positive opinions on a thing, and then try to tear it down. We all do this. You do this, I do this...and we are assured in how right we are. “Well, I’m the one who’s correct, so I need to correct this person.”  When you see someone talking about how they like the Prequels, we are compelled to jump on them, tearing at their spirits until we break them. Expressing an opinion is perfectly fine - it’s healthy discourse to disagree. But allow an example for me: for a substantial period of time, whenever I mentioned Pacific Rim on my personal Facebook page, at least a handful of people would violently tear into it, with an unflappable conviction that this goofy movie about robots, monsters, and indistinguishable white boys wasn’t just a bad movie, but it was their actual duty to prove to me, and everyone else, that we were wrong for enjoying it, and we should...I don’t know, repent? See the “light”? Jeff talked about a troll who was still rummaging around Rage Select, and what happened when John and Amanda, frequent guests on the show, played a WWE game. John and Amanda are huge WWE fans, and have their own wrestling podcast on OneofUs.net. This particular troll began jumping all over the comments section, practically screaming about how terrible and stupid and fake wrestling was. When pressed for why he felt the need to do this, his apparent response was that he was actually trying to ruin it for them. He actually felt that their time was “better spent elsewhere.” There’s a level of insanity that goes with that mindset - this hyper-negative-cynicism online that seems to be born from a real and vibrant desire to take things we like away from each-other. We’ve been seeing this a LOT with The Force Awakens. There are those who want to tear down the people who love TFA because they are “true fans” and the rest don’t “get it.” There are those who want to tear down younger fans who enjoy the prequels because, well, they’re kind of terrible (see, I do it too). Some websites are even using this internet hate-machine to generate revenue based purely on hatred and cynicism alone. It’s one of the main reasons I despise CinemaSins - they are the poor man’s Screen Junkies/Honest Trailers. Instead of poking fun at the movie and having a sense of playfulness, the CinemaSins “Everything Wrong With ____ “ is mired in pure cynicism - the kind that actually ruins movies for people and that douchebags can link to and say “Look! This movie you like? It’s a piece of shit! Now I can prove it in list form!” I worry that the internet is turning us all into Jason Pargin’s, but without the intellect or wit - all bitterly cynical and utterly unimpressed by modern pop culture without a lick of fun or engagement left in us, because it’s smart to hate. Thoughts?