Category: Pop Culture
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Review/Ranking: Secret Level, Eps. 9-15
I guess they front-loaded all the good stuff, huh? This series was like a five-course meal that goes from fresh oysters to a turd wrapped in old newspaper. Gross. B Tier The Outer Worlds: The Company We Keep This episode was pretty good. I enjoyed The Outer Worlds when I played it (even if I…
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Review/Rankings: Secret Level, Eps. 1-8
Secret Level is an animated anthology series exploring a selection of current and classic gaming franchises. I broke the episodes into three tiers – A, B, and C – and listed them within those tiers in approximate order of preference. The fact that there are only three tiers is indicative of what I thought of…
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A Thanksgiving Feast of Reviews
Let’s dig in, shall we? Revew: Turkey (the Bird) It’s a mediocre bird in almost all senses. It’s a near-tasteless, dry, uninspired meat – that’s why the pilgrims felt the need to shove croutons up its ass. At least stuffing makes turkey interesting. These motherfuckers drown in rainstorms because they don’t know to stop looking…
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Quick Thoughts: The Demise of the Halo TV Show
Oh, Master Cheeks, we barely knew ye. The Halo TV show has been cancelled by Paramount after two seasons (although I’ve seen articles saying that the studio intends to shop the show around to other networks). I know that I and pretty much everybody else on the internet were lining up to take steaming dumps…
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What Makes a Good (Modern) Godzilla?
Modern Godzilla movies are a real grab bag: sometimes you get something that’s slow-paced but observant, like Shin Godzilla; sometimes, you end up with an absolute roaring dumpster fire like Godzilla (1998)…and every once in a while, you end up with a triumph like Godzilla Minus One. So, what makes one of these movies good,…
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Review: Fallout (Prime Video)
I was going to make some half-assed reference to war never changing, but you know it does: the quote is just cool. Fallout (the show) represents a change from Fallout (the games), after all – the forms of media their stories are presented in are inherently different. Does the transition from choice-driven, open ended role-playing…
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Review: Halo, Season 2
This is Going to Hurt… You might be wondering why, exactly, I subjected myself to another eight episodes of this “adaptation” when I so disliked the previous season. Reader, I must confess to feeling the same way myself on more than one occasion…but I soldiered on, because you deserve it, and also because I wanted…
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Ranking Attack on Titan‘s Intros (By Amount of Japanese Nationalism)
I’d been hearing about how great this show was for years, and I finally got around to giving it a watch with a buddy who also hadn’t seen it. (I haven’t gotten through the last two episodes, but I wanted to get this done before New Years’, and I don’t ~think~ they have an intro…
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Grimace Does Japan
So I did some mashups of Grimace x Japanese pop culture… (I’ve been tweeting these at McDonalds’ Japanese branch but they haven’t replied yet.) “Mobile Suit Grimace” “Grimace vs. MechaGrimace” “Neon Grimace Evangelion” “Berserk: The Golden Arches Arc” “Pokemon: Grimace” Hit me with suggestions if you’ve got ’em.
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Why I’m Not Reviewing Ahsoka, and Some Other Updates
Don’t worry: despite what you may have heard, I did not perish in an entirely-preventable zeppelin fire. I did, of course, end up trapped in the Australian Outback for several weeks with two broken legs and a herd of predatory kangaroos hunting me, but that’s a tale for another time. Anyway, you read the title,…