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11JulJuly 11, 2023

Harddrive-By: Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: The VenGance of the Slayer

No, I did spell the title correctly. This game should be in a museum. It is a nearly perfect time capsule of turn-of-the-century teenage angst for a very specific kind of teenager.Slayers X is an attempt and apparently successful one for a 35-year-old Millennial to finish writing a game mod he started back when he was fifteen.Something Generation X doesn’t really get at a bone-deep level is that at one time we were the cool big brother. The Gen Xer was the guy with a...

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10JulJuly 10, 2023

The Dark Herald Recommends: Sound of Freedom

Sound of Freedom is a great film that tackles an absolutely brutal subject. And let’s be clear I don’t mean it’s a great film by the standards of “Christian films,” It’s a great film period. Certainly, the best I’ve seen this year. Sound of Freedom starts with a Hispanic father taking his kids a boy and a girl to an audition. It looks legitimate enough. He’s instructed to leave and come back in a few hours, when he comes back, the apartment is empty...

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08JulJuly 8, 2023

Superman Now Transforms Like Sailor Moon

Every word of that title is accurate.This is by the same team that brought you Netflix's She-Ra. They learned NOTHING. https://twitter.com/DCOfficial/status/1677029743005245440 Well, his wearing the red power panties again.I guess that's something?Discuss on Social Galactic

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07JulJuly 7, 2023

Arkhaven Spotlight: Give My Regards to Black Jack

One of the biggest reasons that Manga has completely buried the American comic book industry is that American comics are extremely limited in its audience. The comic book guys are pretty much it. If you like superheroes or to be more accurate diverse and inclusive superheroes then the big two has got your back fam.However, in Japan if you like superheroes there's a manga for you. If you're a toddler there's a manga for you....

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06JulJuly 6, 2023

The Unfathomable Eighties Movies (part 1)

This piece has been on a backburner for a while. However, the OceanGate Incident has forced me to turn up the gas on it.At the tail end of the 1980s, right before the world would “wake up from history” and then roll over and go right back to sleep again, there was a flood (sorry) of deep-water horror movies. At the time we didn’t know why we were being drenched (I’ll try to control myself) with these things. Although now we know that...

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05JulJuly 5, 2023

Blobs and Ends

You would never see a sign like this today80s Lifeguard 1: Only for the weak!80s Lifeguard 2: Yah, only the weak like you, ha! ha!80s Lifeguard 1: Weak little girly man!80s Lifeguard 2: Girly man! Ha! Ha! Ha!I woke up today, convinced it was Thursday. Not a great start.I haven't done one these miscellaneous dumps for a while, so here it is. FIRSTThe Russian vampire movie Empire V. I'd heard a little about it but not much. ...

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04JulJuly 4, 2023

The Dark Herald’s Favorite BBQ Sauce

This is it. This is all you are getting from me today.This is a South Carolina stylesauce and goes best with pulled pork barbecue.2 cups prepared yellow mustard2/3 cup cider vinegar3 tablespoons tomato paste1/2 teaspoon hot sauce (your choice3/4 cup white sugar1 tablespoon mustard powder2 teaspoons chicken bouillon granules or soup base2 teaspoons dried rosemary leaves1 teaspoon celery seed2 teaspoons onion powder2 teaspoons garlic powder2 teaspoons Morton Kosher Salt1 teaspoon black ground pepperSimmer for 10 minutes stirring occasionally.Now go...

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03JulJuly 3, 2023

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

I was a very reluctant convert to the Church of Indy. I hadn’t seen Raiders of the Lost Ark for most of its original theatrical run. Sure, I knew that Lucas had written it, Spielberg had directed and neither of them had ever failed me… Yet. But it just didn’t interest me either. I saw the commercials and they looked something like the old Crash Corrigan serials that Channel 38 had strung together into an incredibly cheap Saturday morning movie. It didn’t look like the...

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30JunJune 30, 2023

Meet Harry Steele

Yes it's the exact same outfit.And yes, Charleton Heston obviously wore it betterWhat did you expect?BBUMPED: 6/30/23Ever wondered to yourself, what the freaking hell kind of archaeologist is Indiana Jones? If you haven't that's all right you probably have never met an archaeologist...or maybe you have met one and didn't realize it because they are not as a breed given to shooting up bars. They are quiet retiring types who spend most of their time in the field delicately brushing...

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30JunJune 30, 2023

RE:View Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is the real title, George.In 1899, Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones Junior came into a world where there were still big spots on a world map marked Unknown. He was as drawn to those places as instinctively as a Salmon is to the stream where it was spawned.Indiana Jones was born to be a man with one foot in two worlds. On the one hand, he was a serious academic from a line of career college men. This...

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