Month: June 2011
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Friday Finds – Coronal Mass Ejection!
First, here are my posts from this week: Favorite Books – A discussion and a bit of reminiscing on my favorite books as a kid. Old Game Tuesday – SimCity 2000 – Reticulating Splines. Movie Review:Â Green Lantern – The lantern (not Hal) has better screen presence than Blake Lively. And a few new things…
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Favorite Books
Since I’ve been reading more lately, I’ve been getting nostalgic for the favorite books of my youth, which is why I’ve been going through the Orson Scott Card library again in part. When I was a kid, there was an easy way to tell my favorites. I had a waterbed, and the headboard had a…
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Old Game Tuesday – SimCity 2000
Man, how many hours did I spend on SimCity 2000? More than my parents would probably like to hear about, that’s for sure. ;) I enjoyed the original SimCity quite a bit, but was only dimly aware of other Sim games (I did rent SimEarth on SNES once, that was fun), but as woon as…
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Movie Review – Green Lantern
I went and saw Green Lantern last night with the guys, and I enjoyed it. It was not a top-flight movie by any stretch, though. I came into this with almost zero knowledge of the Green Lantern Corps, it’s lore, other members than Hal Jordan or John Stewart, and him only in passing, from an…
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Friday Finds – Free RPG Day and more
It’s Free RPG Day tomorrow, similar to free comic book day where you can go to your favorite local RPG game store (the board game, pen and paper kind) and pick up a free game. Most of what is available is the basic stuff, a good way to introduce your kids if you think they…
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Rules and Guidelines for Watching Comic Book Movies
Some people just don’t ‘get’ comic book movies. Critics, or more critical moviegoers at least, analyze the movies as if they are watching Citizen Kane, fretting over characterization and plumbing for deep meaning. On the other hand, you have the comic book fanboys, who examine every teaser frame by frame, looking for inconsistencies in every…
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Old Game Tuesday – Wing Commander: Privateer
One of my all-time favorites, and to me, the best game of the Wing Commander series, is Wing Commander: Privateer. Unlike the other games of the WC series, in this one you play a free pilot with your own inherited ship. At that point, you are completely free to do what you want. Fly around…
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Old Game Tuesday – Lemmings
Ah, Lemmings. One of the best puzzle games of the early PC era (indeed, it was developed for the Amiga!), it’s also one of the hardest to describe. What are the lemmings, exactly? They just…walk? That’s the gist of it, really. You have to guide the lemmings, who don’t really resemble the animal of that…
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Movieline’s 10 Best Celeb Voiceovers in Animated Films
I saw this linked from IMDB today, and had to see who they had picked. I don’t disagree with most of the choices, though my memories of things like Lady and the Tramp are kind of vague. That is, until, I read some of the comments and started thinking about the names mentioned there. There are…
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Dads get the shaft
 Father’s Day is coming up (June 19th if you’re scoring at home), and even if you decry the commercial aspects of the various parental celebration days, you have to admit that we Dads kind of get shafted with this one. First, thanks to it’s placement on the calendar, we will never escape the lame ad…
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Movie Review – X-Men: First Class
Went to see this movie Saturday night (had a busy weekend and needed the time), and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Great, not REALLY SUPER great, but one of the better comic book movies. Lightyears beyond what Brett Ratner could do, that’s for sure. Now, to reiterate something – I am not a comic…