Tag: Action
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Short Story: “One Last Catch”
Crab season had been over for eight solar days, but the Pequod cracked the asteroid anyway. The thing was sitting right there, all fat and juicy and full of karkinoi, and a catch was a catch. The Pequod’s take had been lousy the back half of the season, and the only cargo kicking around the…
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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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Review Catch-Up
I probably should have written reviews of all of these when they were a bit fresher, but shit happens. Let’s do this. Spoiler warning in effect. House of the Dragon (Season 2) (HBO) Great acting and good pyrotechnics can’t save a season that feels like it’s swimming (flying?) in circles. The “Blood and Cheese” scene…
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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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The Joys of Playing Helldivers II While Drunk
I’ve always wondered what my life expectancy would have been as one of the extras in Starship Troopers. Would I have made it to one of the co-ed shower scenes, or been rent in twain by a bug creature that was probably just trying to defend its home? The answer is a profound “no” to…
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Grimy Prison Yard Brawls: Who Did It Better?
You know what nobody asked for? An article comparing the extraordinarily-grimy prison yard brawls featured in the films Extraction 2 (the sequel to Extraction) and The Raid 2: Redemption (the sequel to The Raid). Why am I writing this? You might as well ask why people sometimes shit in urinals – because I found the…
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I Had ChatGPT Write Apologies From Game Studios
Half-assed apologies from game development studios have become almost par for the course these days – it feels like every other title that gets released comes along with a “We’re Sorry” note (or video) posted by the relevant studio on their twitter account after the negative reviews start to roll in. These digital vomit-pools (the…