Tag: review
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Shiny and Less Gatekeepy: Ready Player One, the movie
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, is a story that emphatically celebrates, to a fault, the kind of overzealous pop-culture indulgence that I love. Basically, the entire world has regressed to obsessing over 80s references to try to crack a puzzle made by an eccentric developer who created the VR world the populous retreats to […]
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Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: A whole new TMNT
I grew up loving the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – as you can probably tell him the name of my blog and my Twitter and everything else handle – but it’s something that I’ve loved in absentia since the mid-90s. I haven’t really followed any Turtles series since the original cartoon and the movies. I […]
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The ABCs of Overcooked (and real cooking)
While we were camping last weekend, my wife and I wanted something to play on the Switch that was a little more goal driven than Mario Kart and easier to play in tabletop mode than Hyrule Warriors. We settled on Overcooked, a game we had only played a few levels of before on the PS4, […]
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Deadpool, the video game, is exactly what it should be.
Before there was a Deadpool movie, there was a Deadpool game. It came out in 2013, then was delisted because Marvel and Activision weren’t getting along, then re-released in 2016 in conjuncture with the movie. I played through the whole game over two Twitch streams this week, and it is *exactly* what a Deadpool video […]
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Review: The Martian – Listen to the book, skip the movie
If you know nothing about The Martian, stop reading this and go listen to the Audiobook! Seriously, I’ve got a lot of thoughts about it, and the rest of this post is going to be written pretty much specifically to try to convince you to listen to the Audiobook, but if you don’t know anything […]