From CNET: “The galaxy was mourning, burying its dead, and Starfleet slunk from its duties,” Picard barks, a nod to the destruction of Romulus that sets off the chain of events from the J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek film. He calls the Federation “downright criminal.” “I was not prepared to stand by and be a spectator,” […]

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Today the monsters of PC gaming are well known to all. Blizzard, Steam, EA, Bethesda and so on. 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 estimates that Overwatch cost about $165 million to develop. Modern […]

Read More RE:Play – Quest For Glory

In honor the passing of Sir Terry Jones, (may his family find comfort now that his suffering has ended). I did some digging into the bowels of the internet and found some of his early work. This is Monty Python’s genesis. The Utter History of Britain. This featured Terry Jones and his life long friend […]

Read More Blogs and Ends: Proto-Monty Python

In early 1977, the children of Detroit were living in terror. Parents were barely willing to let them play in their own backyards. A monster was living secretly among them, the Oakland County Child Killer. A serial murder who preyed on children. The children would be snatched seemingly at random, held for days and murdered. […]

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I recently did something I rarely do. I watched a movie I’d recently seen a second time. I’m not a professional critic (thank god), and my time is rather limited. But I had to make an exception for Joker. There was yet another round of screams and hair pulling from the Woketards when Joker got […]

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Christopher Tolkien has set sail for the lands of the kindly West. Christopher Tolkien had long been part of the critical audience for his father’s fiction, first as a child listening to tales of Bilbo Baggins (which were published as The Hobbit), and then as a teenager and young adult offering much feedback on The Lord of the Rings during […]

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…was the name of the bard in the games. In case you were wondering about the name change to Jaskier, it’s Polish for Dandelion. Mystery solved. And Jaskier has come up with the most ferociously tunneling ear-worm of 2020. Toss a Coin to Your Witcher. The actor who played Jaskier swears it’s the most annoying […]

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