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16AugAugust 16, 2024

Gamer Gate Is Over, We Won

Gaming journalism is dead. It died last week.Gideon Litchfield, the Editor and Chief has thrown Wired’s credibility completely down the toilet. He has come forward defending Wired’s ludicrous 1/10 rated review of Hogwarts Legacy.There is no part of this review that isn’t laughably incompetent on every level. It fails at everything a review should try to do. The reviewer in question “Jaina Grey” doesn’t do game reviews at all. Jaina’s beat (sorry for that choice of word) is anal sex...

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15AugAugust 15, 2024

Helldivers II: What Happened?

What didn't happen?Helldivers 2 first came to my attention when I saw a game trailer for it on YouTube. I'd forgotten that Helldivers 1 was even in my Steam account. A sequel was nowhere on my radar.I'm one of the few veterans of the First Galactic War left to tell the tale. Helldivers was a decent and inexpensive top-down shooter. It had the usual things that indicate a good but not terribly high budget. Professional voice actors but the cut...

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14AugAugust 14, 2024

You Do Not Have the Right to Sue Disney

I am personally certain that Bob Iger secretly longs to be the CEO of Apple and not Disney. I mean, yeah ruling Disney and getting to have movie stars constantly kissing his butt is nice and all but Disney at it's most powerful (and it certainly isn't that powerful anymore thanks to Bob) was never able to influence the world like Apple has.So perhaps it isn't a surprise that Bob Iger found the above episode of South Park inspirational....

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13AugAugust 13, 2024

D23: Bob Iger is Taking the Walt out of Disney World

You could tell from the look on his face that Josh D’Amaro the Chairman of Disney Parks knew this announcement was going to go over like a lead Hindenburg. Frontierland at WDW is effectively going to be bulldozed to create Cars Land.A few years ago there was an “audit” conducted by Disney DEI for sensitivity on various attractions at Disney. It will shock my Darklings to their toenails to learn that American history is racist, sexist, and homophobic.This audit was the...

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12AugAugust 12, 2024

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend Borderlands

There is a reason that men hate a Mary Sue more than women. Men care about another man’s struggles. Women don’t care about men’s struggles at all. Not even a little bit. They just wait at the finish line and bang the winner. This is the Heroine’s Journey in a nutshell.Normally when I look at a film like Borderlands, I’m left wondering, “How do you make a movie as bad as this?” In this case, I already knew the answer; “You...

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10AugAugust 10, 2024

Yeah, It’s Gonna Suck: Disney’s Snow White

At least I won't have to see it until next year.A lot can happen in a year. Civilization might fall. Elon might raid Disney. My frozen spaghetti in a waffle cone idea could be a surprise hit. A lot can happen in a year. What won't happen is Snow White becoming a good movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbiPcMCz0Ek Discuss on Social Galactic

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09AugAugust 9, 2024

Warner to Start Selling Off its Gaming Division

Last year Warner had an unexpected mega-hit with Hogwarts Legacy. The fact is that this year it probably would have bombed because of Sweet Baby Inc.’s involvement. It’s hilariously ironic that a game as Woke as Hogwarts Legacy blew the doors off because gamers and Hary Potter fans wanted to give the Death to JK crowd the middle finger and were willing to plunk down quite a few bucks to do it.This year Warner Brothers luck ran out with Suicide...

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08AugAugust 8, 2024

Deadpool Drama

You've probably been hearing something about a lot of behind-the-scenes shrieking and screaming due to an extended version of Deadpool and Wolverine.Here's what's going on. Deadpool started shooting in early 2023, was interrupted because of the SAG strike but resumed and was finished in November of 2023. Those dates are important. Because of the strike, there were several actors who had been signed but became unavailable. So their characters had to be cut. Patrick Stewart for instance was set...

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07AugAugust 7, 2024

The Seige of Nerdrotic

From the Land of Unsurprising News comes this, well-known YouTube comic culture commentator and former comic shop owner Gary Buechler better known as Nerdrotic is under an organized assault.It started last week when this complete UFO of an account on X.com posted this.There was nothing remotely clever, innovative, informative, insightful, useful, intelligent, simply nothing at all interesting about this tweet, but it went through the roof. Then MinuteNerdNews turned his account private. Yeah, that's not suspicious. This was very clearly and...

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06AugAugust 6, 2024

Harddrive-by: Fallen Aces

I love this game. We’ll start there. If this game wasn’t made with me in mind then it was made for Razorfist. It plays to most of my major weaknesses. Golden Age Comics, Imm-sim Boomer shooter, pulp fiction, crime noir with a Chanderleresque private dick walking down these mean streets, it’s all there.Like the classic Theif, it’s an imm-sim. But it’s quite a bit more than that.The game is published by New Blood Interactive which is a pretty big point in...

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