Year: 2011
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Friday Finds – War Machine and The Hobbit
Happy Friday, all! I’m getting back in the swing of things so got some posts down this week. Not sure how many I’ll manage for next week, though, as I’m planning to fire up River City Ransom for OGT. Might just nerd-snipe myself into oblivion there, love that game. Anyway, this week’s posts: Kid Movie…
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Ender’s Game – Might it FINALLY Happen?
If you know me at all, you know I’m a huge Orson Scott Card fan, with my favorite book of his always alternating between Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. The idea for an Ender’s Game movie has been in Hollywood for years, at one point looking like Wolfgang Petersen would get it done. …
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Old Game Tuesday – The Legend of the Mystical Ninja
When I was a kid, I rented a ton of games for my various game systems as even then I really hated the idea of wasting what little money I had on a bad game. I also preferred renting the simpler action games rather than buying them, figuring something like Final Fantasy III, which took…
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Kid Movie Reviews – Coraline
I finally got to see Coraline last night, on TV even though I have a DVD copy, and enjoyed it immensely. If you are not familiar with it (or the Neil Gaiman book it is based on), Coraline Jones is an 11 year old girl who craves her parents’ attention. Especially since they just moved…
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Friday Finds – Vicious Krakens
I’ve been seriously sick pretty much all week, so there isn’t much this week. Hope to recover over the weekend so I can get back after it. NaNoWriMo? Should I subject myself to this again? – Apparently so. Movie Review – Real Steel – Quite entertaining. Links: Krakens be crazy. Flying power generation, very cool.…
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Movie Review – Real Steel
I took my son with me to see Real Steel last night. Much like Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this was a movie that hit my radar late. I mean, I knew about it, and probably made the jokes everyone else made about Rock’em Sock’em Robots. It wasn’t until reviews started to come…
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NaNoWriMo? Should I subject myself to this again?
Why am I considering this? Shall I torment myself yet another year? Yeah, actually, I think so. Looking at the 10 Types of writer’s block I linked earlier, I think I might have a way past the ones that typically take me down. I have ideas, and I think I can strangle my inner critic,…
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Freaking AMAZING Lord of the Rings LEGO
Via GeekTyrant (and they saw it at Brothers Brick), a 22,000 brick, 7ft tall, 145lb LotR ‘Battle of Isengard’ set. The builders, called OneLug, really outdid themselves, including everything from the partially burned Ent, an amazing effect of the dam bursting with the blue and clear stud pieces, Wormtongue hiding behind Saruman…really, reall cool. Click…
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Friday Finds – Solar Sails and LEGO
Happy Friday all! It’s a busy day today, so I’ll get right down to it: Old Game Tuesday – Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri – What a fantastic game. Where Comic Books Make Us Uncomfortable – Me pondering sex appeal in comics. Ender’s Game – Might it FINALLY Happen? – We might ACTUALLY get the Ender’s…
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Where Comic Books Make Us Uncomfortable
By now, you may have heard of DC’s mass reboot of most of their comic books, and some of the expected backlash. A new spin, though, is the shall we say gratuitous sexyfication of females that occurred along with it. You can read this response to what’s happened to Starfire from a 7 year-old comic…
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Old Game Tuesday – Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
Alpha freaking Centauri. Those that love ‘Civilization’ type games often hold Alpha Centauri in extremely high regard. The game let’s you pick up where we pacifistic Civilization players left off – with a ship landing on an Alpha Centauri planet, ready to build a new society. Much of the game is Civ taken to a…