Video Game Reviews
In Genre will be looking at adding more current reviews of new genre media to offset our normal columns and quick blurbs.
To start it off I myself will start contributing reviews of new video games I’ve finished, reviews that I hope will be useful to people in deciding whether or not to try a certain game.
My first reviews will be on the following games as I finish them: Bioshock 2, Final Fantasy XIII and Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening.
Look for other contributors to be adding their own reviews in the weeks to come!
Better Late Than Never: Battlestar Galactica (2003 reboot)
It’s been my mission the past year or so to seek out the cool, geeky things that I have inadvertently passed over. It’s what brought me to watch all seven seasons of Buffy last fall, because enough of my friends had seen it and liked it that I thought I should give it a shot, and I ended up loving it. It’s what brought me now to check out the 2003 reboot of Battlestar Galactica, which some of my friends swear by but I was never willing to pay $60 a season to watch. I had never seen the original ‘70s series, so I knew nothing about it.
White Ninja
Up until this point I’ve refused to review a comic I haven’t read the entire archives of, but now I’m starting to realize that, with a weekly update schedule, maybe I’m putting too much pressure on myself. I bring this up because I decided to try an review White Ninja and I just… I just couldn’t. I know I’ve reviewed some bad comics on here, but at least the really bad ones were entertainingly bad. I think I mentioned in my Wicked Powered review that I felt like the whole comic could very well be trying to be so deliberately awful that it’s kind of funny. White Ninja has some of the same deal going for it: you can tell from the moment you see it that there is a lot of deliberate awfulness; in the art, in the writing, in the layout… Everything about this comic is designed to be bad. …CONTINUE READING =>
Check It Out (like a car crash) - The American “Spaced”
For those of you unfamiliar with it, “Spaced” is the phenomenal early oughts British sitcom which marked the first collaboration between Nick Frost, Edgar Wright, and Simon Pegg, the same guys who later brought us Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz (it’s also the name-sake for my column, “It’s Finished”). Like plenty of great recent British comedies, it was treated to an American re-make - and like every such remake apart from The Office, it was a stellar disaster.
And now, via a social networking site whose name I’d rather not promote from a passive to an active part of my vocabulary Pegg has shared the link of a lifetime. Behold, the American “Spaced”:
Check It Out - Player’s Handbook 3
With the Monk, the Seeker, Minotaurs, Psionic power source..
a whole mess of goodies!
Learn more at - http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndacc/251240000
With Just A Thought
With just a thought.
That’s all it takes, a single split second for an idea, or question to pop into your head. We all do it, all day long, each and everyday of our lives. As, I sit here writing this installment of my monthly column, I am doing it, and I’m sure at this exact moment as you’re reading this, you’re doing it to. Thinking.
Websters Dictionary defines the word THOUGHT as follows:
Thought: noun; 1. the act or product of thinking; mental activity; an idea, opinion, etc., 2. attention; regard or care.
Just imagine the possibilities that are contained within a single thought. Ideas spring to life and opinions are formed, just from the simple act of thinking. This is something that we ALL can do. It’s not the ability of only a mutant, metahuman or superhero. But the question is, is the act of thinking a special power? The answer is YES, it is. …CONTINUE READING =>
