Category: Latest Wisdom
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Inglourious Basterds: An Ingienious Theory
I’m so goddamn pleased with myself for coming up with this set of observations that I had to share them with the world (lucky world). Admittedly, at least one person thought of this before me, and his name rhymes with ‘Bentin Barantino’. (I’d hazard a guess there’s thousands of others who noticed this before I…
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Review Showdown: House of the Dragon vs. The Rings of Power (Part 2)
Before we start, let’s have some fun with math! That’s a sentence I never thought I’d say… The first season of The Rings of Power cost approximately $715 million to make.[1] That means that Amazon spent a little less than 10% of Somalia’s GDP to buy 8 episodes of mediocre television. (Honestly, I’m surprised by…
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Review: Andor, Episodes 7-10
In my relatively short tenure as proprietor of a reviews-oriented site, I’ve come to realize that it’s much, much easier to write about things that I don’t like than it is to crank out ~1000 words on something I actually enjoyed. The episodes comprising Andor’s last arc make for a hard review in the best…
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Review: Splatoon 3 (Nintendo Switch)
I’ve always been partial to team-based multiplayer games that let me contribute in less, shall we say, confrontational ways. Back when I played Overwatch, I enjoyed Lucío’s speed-boosting and healing abilities; in the Battlefield games, I tend to play as a medic, etc., etc. It’s like being the paparazzi on Princess Diana’s commute: sometimes, it’s…
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Review: Halloween Ends
This was a weird one. Not bad-weird, but strange enough that a one-sided discussion like this necessitates the disclosure of… *From far away, across a desolate, blasted land, comes the tolling of ancient bells* …spoilers (the spookiest thing of all). Away we go. Part the First: Some Grisly Context You’re probably aware that Halloween Ends…
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Review: Andor, Episodes 4-6
[Oh, yeah, there’s some spoilers in here, but I tried to avoid anything too specific…apart from the ending of Rogue One.] Something about these three episodes rubbed me the wrong way…but, much like the clitoris, I’m having a hard time putting my finger on it. Oh, well. Let’s give it the old college try. Andor’s…
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Experiments with AI Art, Part III: American Legends & Tall Tales
…but, you know, with a twist. I swear to god, if this AI is learning from me, Skynet is going to end up even worse than it did in the movies. I thought this set of, uh, “art pieces” turned out pretty well; I took the liberty of not including the most nightmarish of the…
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Review: Deathloop (PS5/Xbox Series S)
I played Deathloop back when it came out on PS5, but its recent release on Game Pass gives me a good opportunity to write a review of the thing while still being somewhat topical. Once more into the breach…shit, wait, wrong time loop game.[1] At the end of the (repeated, over and over again) day,…
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Review: RRR (Netflix)
Fuck yeah. This shit right here? It’s pretty damn good. I mean, it’s also completely bonkers, but since when is that a bad thing?[1] Even the dance number was entertaining, and I’m not usually one for those, particularly when they show up in the middle of a historical action epic (imagine what Braveheart would have…
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Review: Andor, Episodes 1-3 (Disney+)
Here’s a pitch that may or may not have actually happened: “this is a TV series that’s a prequel story about a character who dies in a separate prequel spinoff to a classic science fiction trilogy.” Or, if you want to be more specific: “it’s a series covering basically the entire adult life of one…