23Nov
And Now Bud Light is Rebranding
Yeah, sure. Why not?All I'm doing is freaking commercials now.Bottom line Bud Light is doing the big I'm So-o-o-o-r--r-r-r-r-r-r-y. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO6hngy9Ajw
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22Nov
Volvo Blows Jag-You-Are Totally Out of the Water
This is utterly ludicrous.Volvo just launched this four minute commercial on YouTube and it is everything that the Jaguar commercial is NOT.It's about a traditional family and a father's hopes and dreams for his daughter as he watches her grow up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQX-QXxwGvA The comments show all the difference in the world. People are saying that they hadn't considered a Volvo before but are now.This is the whole point of an advertisement. Volvo's marketing department has pantsed Jag's, knocked them on all...
22Nov
The Dark Herald’s Game of the Year
I step out of the ruins of a record shop and onto the streets of Selaco. My health is 100% and I have plenty of ammo. Like a perfect nugget I’m admiring the scenery instead of checking the corner I’m about to step around.My reward for this stupidity was a flash and a boom heralding the loss of half my health. I chuck an ice grenade at the pair of SOBs while I slide out of their line of fire...
22Nov
Hasbro Comes to Bury Gygax, Not to Praise Him
Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast are in the process of releasing their DEI drenched new rules for Dungeons and Dragons. As a kind of cross promotion they are releasing a companion book the 40th Anniversary Making of DnD.The forward of which absolutely castigates Gary Gygax for the unspeakable crime of not being a 21st-century Woketard.In celebration of this literary masterpiece, I'll be hosting a special game this weekend.Discuss on Social Galactic
22Nov
RE:View – The Muppet Christmas Carol
No story on Earth has been done to death as thoroughly as Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. Every possible iteration on this classic story has been made. I tried to find out how many versions there were by typing “A Christmas Carol” into the IMDB search bar, and it called me an asshole.Or it may as well have. I stopped counting the screen adaptions when I hit the fifth search page of results. A Nashville Christmas Carol, A Country Christmas Carol, Dora’s Christmas...
20Nov
Jaguar For MODERN AUDIENCES
Pictured: A Jaguar NOT for modern audiences.Jaguar, the legendary British auto manufacturer, not the South American bobcat, started life as the Swallow Sidecar company. They made, admittedly, handsome motorcycle sidecars. They expanded to become the Swallow Coachbuilding Company. Back in the 1920s, the British favored a model where the car's chassis, engine, brakes, and engineering guts in general would be built at one company and then taken to a coachbuilder who would fashion a bespoke body for the...
19Nov
Star Trek’s Tombstone
It's called UnificationAnd it feels like a respectful sendoff to something that was once beloved by many.Like the kind of goodbye to the 23rd Century the old Trekkies wanted. The franchise is dead. Kurtzman Trek is a skinsuit zombie version of something that simply can't be brought back to life by today's Hollywood. There is no one left at this point that can do it and Alex Kurtzman is good enough at Hollywood power games that there are too many...
18Nov
First Impressions: Dune Prophecy
Have you ever wanted to see what a Merchant Ivory space opera would look like? Well, now you can!Okay, there’s more to it than that, but if you are a dude just be prepared, that’s all I’m saying. Dune: Prophecy started life as Dune: The Sisterhood and has been in development since before the plague. It may well have benefited from spending a little too much time in the bottle. It began development during a regime at Warner that was doing its...
16Nov
Half-Life 2 At Twenty
An upgraded version of Half-Life 2 has been made available to... I was going to say celebrate the twentieth anniversary but perhaps observe is a better term.In any case, you can't beat the price, which is free. The reason I say observe instead of celebrate is that at the end of day, the Half-Life series is up there with A Song of Ice and Fire, as a sprawling saga that will never be finished.As a story, it is literally...
16Nov
They Have No One But Rey
“Rey is the most valuable cinematic asset, In some ways the only one.”That is a quote from an alleged LucasFilm insider that the Hollywood Reporter talked to. What is unbelievably tragic is that he is perfectly right. LucasFilm at this point has nothing else. A lot of this comes down to Disney’s institutional commitments and incredibly passive-aggressive corporate culture. At Disney, even the mildest of constructive criticisms feels like a vicious attack because at Disney, it is.And if you are foolish or...