Loved Gunship 2000. My family’s PC wouldn’t run anything more advanced than that, sadly. I recently found a brief Gunship clip on YouTube and... Let’s just say it was way more primitive a game than my 30 year old memories suggested.

This whole thing has been a real bummer to read about. I don’t really want to place the blame on anyone here, either at id or Mick Gordon. Both sides seem to have legitimate grievances. But the customers who got shafted with an inferior mix and arrangement of the OST album have the right to be pretty upset too. I…

This happens to me. I was born in '82 so I consider myself an "elder" millennial, and I have one coworker in his early 20s who gets a big kick out of calling me "Boomer." He does it somewhat ironically, but it doesn't help me not feel like there is already a huge generation gap between myself and younger millennials…

Its hard to imagine a movie that I would compare negatively to Salò. I will never forget the intense need to hose off my brain after watching that one.

I’ve been a Doom 64 fan since it’s initial release. It was one of my three favorite N64 games as a kid (the others being Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Star Fox 64- to be fair this was about half of my entire videogame library at the time). Anyway, though I’d played a bit of the original Doom, ‘64 was the Doom I’d always…

Yeah I remember it being 6 AA batteries, which was a pretty expensive demand in those days. But the weight of the batteries made that toy feel heavy and awesome.

I haven’t seen paper caps in a very long time.  I’m not even sure cap guns are still a thing.

I had a couple of the toy guns featured in that video. In particular, the Tootsietoy F/x Devastator, also called “Old Painless” apparently, was one of my most prized possessions. Not only did it have spinning barrels and sound effects, it also had a cap gun mechanism that you could run a strip of caps through for that…

He looks the same, it appears to be more a matter of different lighting and a different pose. And I refuse to believe anyone actually cared about this in the first place, besides a few outrage merchants on Youtube. 

Definitely. I never understood the nostalgia my generation has for Saved by the Bell. Granted, I was 7 when it first aired in ‘89 but even as I got older I just never cared for it. As far as I was concerned as a kid, it was just another crappy show that was trying to ruin my Saturday morning cartoon marathon,…

I am not at all a fan of where the industry is going or the anti-consumer ideas (DRM, Microtransactions, etc...) that have cropped up from almost every major studio publisher over the last five years or so. Having said that, Gamer Culture is also a major problem that only seems to be getting worse. The writing has…

Gamer culture has been like this for a long time- entitled, hyper-critical, and perpetually confusing cynicism with profundity. It’s discouraging to see that there is still a very, vociferous subset that is bound and determined to keep the hackneyed Gamer stereotypes (e.g. being a petulant man-child) alive. That’s why…

I’m getting old and I know it, but I kinda hate where this trend is going. The industry is trying to phase out physical media and consumers are just going along with it. Don’t people see that the price of all this convenience is loss of ownership and control over what we buy? If that sounds hyperbolic, then just look…

Poor Americans are living in a literal dystopia of crushing debt, increasingly bad jobs, and poverty wages- and have been for a long time. All the while we repeat the mantras telling us we are “Greatest Country in the World.” None of this makes sense. I don’t know how to fix it, but if we want to do better our country…

It’s interesting how first-person games handle the player character’s body in certain ways. Doom (‘16) and Wolfensteins The New Order and The Old Blood hid the player’s body as much as possible. The video says Doom removes the helmet to prevent it from clipping through the camera, which makes sense, I guess. Hiding…

I’ve been one of Halo 5's staunch defenders from the beginning, even concerning the campaign. I think a lot of the backlash was a result of the way MS advertised the game’s plot, which was blatantly deceptive. Never the less I think the criticism here more than fair. But H5 deserves big credit for how it handles loot…

It’s not just Tucker, he’s just one bow-tie wearing douche bag. This is the narrative everyone at Fox News and Fox Business works to push. Everyone from Hannity to Dobbs and Charles Paine run bits that reinforce the notion that “The Liberals” are dangerous, fanatical and unhinged. According to them, Democrats are the “…

This was actually my problem with Infinity War- once Spiderman and Black Panther faded away (characters/actors we know are going to be in planned sequels) I realized that the entire ending was going to be reversed. And if that can be reversed, then all of it could hypothetically be reversed, if the writers want to.…

Jennifer Connelly is such a tallented actress. But it’s hard for me to get past how ridiculously gorgeous she is, especially in movies like Dark City and Requiem for a Dream. She was pretty much my top celebrity crush throughout my 20s.

Now, That is how you review a game: like a nerdy Hunter S. Thompson. Lots of people try to pull off rambly, tangential videos full of vaguely unrelated anecdotes, but somehow, you’ve done it. Or maybe I’m biased because of my nostaglic love for Turok and its sequel.