Things I Hate

Catherine

22 August 2011

So, Catherine – a quirky mix of dating sim, puzzle action and horror condensed into a bright pink package – is the best-selling game from its publisher, Atlus, to date. Considering that Atlus’s wheelhouse tends to be critically acclaimed niche games that would likely never see the light of day in the USA otherwise, it’s [...]

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Scenes From A Mall

11 August 2011

Malls are like pitcher plants – traps designed to attract and kill. Nothing crushes the human spirit more than a mall. Nothing except thoughtful contemplation of the people who choose to go to a mall as a sort of social event. I went to a mall earlier this week. I needed to buy a birthday [...]

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Goals

5 August 2011

Sometimes I think about blogging as a medium and I feel like I am not cut out for it. This blog is a record of my life and, really, my life is not entertaining at all.  Seriously not at all, you guys. If I’m going to keep this up, I need to establish goals. Or [...]

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Revenge of Revenge of the Fallen Shot in 3D

5 July 2011

There is a moment that comes, maybe 2/3 of the way through Transformers: Dark of the Moon, when the audience can really and truly see the ethos of not just DotM, but the entire Michael Bay-helmed Transformers saga, with riveting clarity.  As a giant robot knocks over a skyscraper, a special forces soldier tumbles out [...]

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A Renumbering, At Least

15 June 2011

If you’ve been up in the air about how exactly you should feel about the DC Comics relaunch looming in September, I think the best signal to pay attention to is Marvel’s most recent news announcement. DC: We’re restarting everything at #1.* Marvel: New Spider-Man book. Sick. Burn. It’s almost a parody of the DC [...]

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It’s One of the Many Things I Forgot to Ask Him

14 June 2011

I once had a very engaging and amiable debate with Natasha. I wish, I told her, that I could be a real journalist, like you are. She scoffed and said she wished that she could be a blogger, like I am.  The conversation ran the gamut from the importance of legitimacy to the actual relevance [...]

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Everything Will Change

1 June 2011

To be a nerd or a geek is to be a constant victim of diminishing returns, drawing Vader-like on the dark energies of the Force to sustain one’s fandom – a little more each day, a little more each day, and a consistent parade of  ‘a little more’  adds up over time. To quote Father [...]

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A Human Vampire….

16 May 2011

Succinctly, Priest is a movie about priests who are nothing like priests fighting vampires who are nothing like vampires. Instead, priests are stoic kung-fu warrior monks. We are told they have special powers, but unless ‘stoic kung-fu’ is a power, you never actually see them in use. Likewise, the vampires are eyeless xenomorph knock-offs who [...]

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A Quick Thought on Dwayne McDuffie and the ‘Tribute’ Issue

17 March 2011

It seems distasteful to me that DC Comics is attempting to generate profit from the death of a creator who they consistently treated poorly while he was alive and working for them and whose legacy they at times seem actively interested in mishandling. The simple solution is to simply not buy the issue, and donate [...]

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The Horrifying Spectre of Education, Part 2

20 February 2011

Proponents of the Tea Party often talk up their devotion to independent fiscal responsibility over blind ties to liberalism or conservatism. But ‘fiscal responsibility’ of the stripe that we’re seeing in Washington right now, as the Republican House attempts to budget responsibly solely by defunding initiatives they disagree with politically is hardly party-blind and may [...]

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