Tag: Opinion
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Review: Coronavirus (2024)
Man, that fucking sucked. I’d managed to dodge any tussles with COVID-19 since it premiered – at least, to my knowledge – until a recent excursion to a certain beer hall (that shall not be named) proved disastrous for my winning streak. Gentle reader, I got wrecked. Not to the extent that I wound up…
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Bests & Worsts of 2023: Gaming
Like last year’s edition (available at https://scrubreport.com/2023/01/14/bests-worsts-of-2022-gaming/), this will be a bit of a twist on the usual “Best/Worst” listicle format – that is, it’ll include specific events, game mechanics, and industry trends as well as games that I liked or hated. Let’s git ‘er done. Bests: – Assembling insane contraptions in The Legend of…
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Final Fantasy XVI: or, the Saga of Liquid Clive
This isn’t a review. If it was a review, I’d be talking at least some about the things I enjoyed in this game (good music, nice graphics, a solid trio of core characters, expansive and well-presented lore) – but right now I just feel like complaining. It’s easier to be funny when I’m being negative,…
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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…
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The Eye of Argon: A Literary Analysis (Part 2)
Alright, so calling this an “analysis” is like calling what they serve at Arby’s “meat,” but that’s just life – sometimes the people you trust tell you horrible lies in order to get pageviews. Today we’ll be looking further into Jim Theis’ fantasy epic “The Eye of Argon”. Although the version that I’ve been referencing…
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Review: The Mandalorian, Season 3, Eps. 6-8 (Disney+)
Let’s call a spade a spade: this season of Mando was more uneven than my heart rate, and the last three episodes really exemplified a lot of the problems I had with this season as a whole. I put off writing this review because, honestly, I just didn’t find the end of the season…
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Review Showdown: The Callisto Protocol vs. Dead Space (2023)
Introduction: I held off on posting this review until I’d wrapped up both games; it took me a couple of weeks to finish the Dead Space remake, but, with its myriad of fleshy horrors safely in the rearview mirror, here’s a double review no one asked for. Honestly, it’s so one-sided that it isn’t much…
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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…