Tag: Sci-Fi
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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/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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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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Free Range Nightmare Fuel (and other assorted “art”)
In no particular order, here are some drawings I knocked out recently that you might find horrifying(ly interesting). If you’ve been sleeping too soundly, these should be just the cure for what ails you. There’s an obvious Lovecraftian influence to many of the following…because that shit is scary as hell. Just wanted to point it…