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18AprApril 18, 2024

RE:Play – Gabriel Knight 1

They don’t make boxes like that anymore REPOST: “I dreamt of blood upon the shore, of eyes that spoke of sin. the lake was smooth and deep and black, as was her scented skin…” -Gabriel Knight Cliche: defined as “an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.” Dirty little secret of...

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18AprApril 18, 2024

Ghosts of Bad Lands Trailer Drop

Arizona native and pulp fiction addict Razorfist new comic just had its trailer drop. I'll be reviewing it as soon as I feel better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvqB8OukFNw

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16AprApril 16, 2024

RE:Play – Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to Be a Hero

REPOST: I'm going to be laid up for a while which means I'm in rerun mode. Enjoy these blasts from the past. Or don't, because either way this is what you're getting. Today the monsters of PC gaming are well known to all Steam, EA, Sony, and biggest fish in any pond Microsoft. Huge multi-billion dollar corporations chugging out carefully crafted and polished money extraction software. Modern games require the kind of budget that epic blockbusters are made of. Quora estimated that...

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16AprApril 16, 2024

RE:View – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Most sequels follow in the footsteps of a massively successful first movie. This film on the other hand was born from the ashes of Star Trek the Motion Picture. While STMP isn’t the best movie in the series, it is pretty far from the worst. If you have a chance to see Robert Wise’s Director’s Cut, it’s definitely worth a look. It was however horrifically expensive to make. It cost $35 million and back in 1979 that was a studio-breaking amount of money. Michael Eisner hated spending...

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13AprApril 13, 2024

First Impression: Fallout

2024 is going to be called the Year of the Unadaptable Movie. Although this one is a TV show. The Fallout franchise definitely falls in this category. Fallout was sort of obsolete when it first came out. I don’t mean the semi-turned-based role-playing thing, Fallout started life as a tribute band version of Wasteland so the interface was kind of a necessity. Besides, that's how mid-90s computer RPGs worked. That was what Black Isle did best, this was the studio that...

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12AprApril 12, 2024

RE:View – The Last American Virgin

Don't be fooled by this poster The Seventies were horrible in every way imaginable. From the musical incompetence of Wall of Sound to the solipsistic non-philosophy of Easy Rider, to your older sister’s boyfriend’s creepy-ass custom van with the shag carpeting that smelled…funny. There was nothing that wasn’t vomitable. Even the clothing and food were wrong. Polyester ravaged the land for an entire decade, (Hell, your Dad’s leisure suit was packed with the stuff). As for the kitchen it was ruled...

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11AprApril 11, 2024

WEBToons In Trouble with Creators… Again

I’ll have to start this post with the disclaimer that Arktoons is a competitor of WEBToons.com. My wife just finished with her newest K-drama, Marry My Husband. The plot is that all men are garbage unless they are handsome and rich, however, the important part is that this very popular TV show started life on WEBToons. It’s far from the only one out there. There are now better than 20 of the things out in the wild and that number...

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09AprApril 9, 2024

Cheap Thrills: Lethal Company

Lethal Company is a lot of game for ten bucks. You may have heard of it. I had not. I just picked it up as a part of a Steam Sale. Lethal Company's "plot" Is that you are working for a deep space salvage company, called "The Company." You go to various moons to find salvage and bring it aboard your ship... Without being eaten. That's important because being eaten is a significant limiter on your ability to meet quota. But don't worry...

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08AprApril 8, 2024

Bob Iger Claims We Don’t Know What Woke Means

From Vanity Fair: “The term woke is thrown around rather liberally,” Iger said. “I think a lot of people don’t really understand what it means.” I do, Bob! I do! Shall I tell you what it means? Given that you’ve a got a rich Boomers grasp of the social issues surrounding it, you probably do need some help. It seems like the least I could do after all the low hanging fruit you’ve fed me for years. Now to be clear, I do realize...

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07AprApril 7, 2024

RE:View Star Trek The Motion Picture

One of my earliest memories is the landing of Apollo 11. My parents woke me up for it and dragged me downstairs so that I could wobble bleary-eyed on my father’s lap as Eagle came down to rest at Tranquility Base. I couldn’t make out what Armstrong said. The interference was bad that morning. But even at that age, I knew that I had just watched something that was supposed to be important. Because everyone kept telling me it was. Apollo 11 was...

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