What a difference a week makes! This time last Friday, I didn’t have a Nintendo Switch with Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, Fortnite, Hollow Knight, Golf Story, or Splatoon 2...
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So this is the weekend I take my first foray into 4K gaming (sort of).
Hey everyone, long time no see! Maybe because I haven’t finished a damn thing in ages. Among many other things, though, there is one very positive reason for this: It looks like we are about to close on a house purchase! This will be our first home if everything goes through and the place looks really nice for my…
Apologies if this comes across as a bit pointless or self-indulgent but I enjoy reading the comments on WAYPTW by all of you, so I thought I’d share my thoughts.
I’ve picked up Horizon: Zero Dawn again after a several month break. At the time, I had just arrived in Meridian, the weakest part of the game. Exploring the wilds and battling fierce beasts is the main attraction in this game. In theory, a break from that could be nice but I have the small villages and camps for that…
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With all the fervor of a kid on a playground, explaining why their Spider-Man toy can totally whip a friend’s Batman toy’s ass...
It’s pretty straightforward: We’re not used to stories where women are the perpetrators of such acts, so they don’t register to that part of our brains that filters data through cliches to deliver snap judgments that keep us from being ambushed by a leopard out in the African savanna. It’s something we have to process…
‘80s jocks were right - nerds are bad fucking news.
Gaming has been sparse for me over the past month as the wife and I have mostly been engaged in a game of Real Life Nintendogs: Pug Puppy Edition. We’ve leveled him up to housebroken and mostly docile, but his MP stats still fluctuate wildly, especially when we StreetPass with other Real Life Nintendogs players on the…
For last weekend and this week, I only played Paper Mario: the Thousand-Year Door, and not for much time since Tuesday morning. Truthfully, I’ve said so much about it last week that I’m worried of being redundant. Plus, I’m kind of exhausted and will be done with it next week, so it’ll probably be best to discuss it…
I don’t think it’s a matter of jumping to conclusions. The show is, in my humble opinion, pretty obviously characterizing what David did as a “kick the dog” moment into potential villainy, and I didn’t get the impression that Hawley or the writers were trying to justify it. I think the season was supposed to end on a…
Whataboutism is a specific method of deflection to excuse ones wrongdoing, not a get out of jail free card whenever someone points out a hypocrisy. No one, the show included, is arguing that David did a good thing, or even a right then, let alone implied that Syd “deserved it”.
Yet at the same time, “My girlfriend…
I think you’re using/trying to incorporate where we are in the age of #metoo with simple allegorical story telling. David’s been on a descent into madness the whole season, becoming more and more cut off/cutting himself off because, in the end, he’s gotta have the big boss battle, the one he might not come back from,…
Hawley is using the surrealistic imagery as a crutch more and more this season. Syd met Melanie in a place where she has no reason to be, and she seems now able to do things she couldn’t possibly do, including showing her footage from her own mind. So Syd starts timidly questioning how Melanie’s able to do that, but…
Sorry, I have an advanced degree and consider myself pretty smart, and I readily admit from week to week I have almost no idea what is going on. I “get” the broad strokes, like David and the Shadow King are the main protagonist/antogonist, but this season is worse than Mr. Robot season 2. The first season of this show…
I thought this episode was the least successful of the series so far. It had some great scenes but fell apart on some crucial stuff - I just didn’t buy at all Syd - an extremely intelligent person until now- falling so easily for Melanie’s obvious scheming tricks, not to mention not even guessing that it could be…
Let’s face, this show is just too ‘weird’ and experimental for a mainstream audience, especially of the demographic who’d normally be interested in mutants and comic book characters. The first season at least had a bunch of very obvious ‘check out these guys using their powers’ action scenes to keep that crowd hooked,…