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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…
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Old Game Tuesday – The Worms Series
The Worms series of games has it’s roots in the earliest recesses of computerized gaming, as a spiritual successor to the various ‘artillery games‘ like Scorched Earth. At their core, you have two teams of cartoony worms facing off, firing weapons ranging from simple shotguns to homing missiles to holy hand grenades to the super…
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Lightning Movie Review – Rango
Things are returning somewhat to normal around these parts, enough so that I took my family to see Rango at the Movieland 8. I enjoyed it, and it’s interesting that we had a trailer for Kung Fu Panda 2 in front of it, as Rango feels much like Kung Fu Panda – a good representative…
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Vintage Gaming – Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Yes, another Koei game, actually I will cover the whole series of games, at least the ones I’ve played. Romance of the Three Kingdoms games are at their core turn based strategy games centered around the eponymous timeframe in Chinese history. You’ll remember that from my talk about Destiny of an Emperor. There have been…
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More on Thor: Come ON, Roger
Roger Ebert is one of the few critics I play attention to. I don’t always agree with him, but he thinks really hard on even the silliest movie he has the misfortune to see. That is, most of the time. He didn’t review Thor officially, but mentioned in his ‘Journal’ today. I can understand him…
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Book Review – The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham
I just finished The Dragon’s Path, the latest novel by Daniel Abraham. Once, dragons ruled the land where the book takes place, but mostly what is left are the roads. The city of Vanai, often used as a token swapped back and forth between empires, is again threatened by war. It’s a war former hero…
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Movie Review – Thor
I went and saw Thor at the IMAX 3D last night, solid, enjoyable movie. I was never a fanboy of the Thor comic, mostly only reading it when it came in the big bulk packs that I bought, but I’m glad I went to see this movie. This is normally where I’d explain who Thor…
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Happy Mother’s Day!
To all the Mommies out there, have a great day!
