“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” – T.S. Eliot Game companies come and go. A happy few get to be the leaders of the industry. Others at least survive the generation and try to rebuild. Still others fade away into the void.…
Ideas tend to crop up in pop culture over and over, as fast as they become irrelevant, can just as quickly they become relevant once more. Vampires can represent a repressed Victorian sexuality, or the roiling power of young adulthood. Robots can be the cold, inhuman force of communism, or combined…
There had been rumors rolling around the internet that The Orville wouldn’t really have an example of what sort of show it would be until the third episode. Critics were given the first three and, while full reviews didn’t pop up immediately, word was that was the episode when The…
שנה טובה (shanah tovah) and happy new year! Tonight is Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year (5778)! Actually, it’s one of four new year days each year, but this is the one that is we really celebrate since it’s the new year for the calendar and for seasons. All sorts…
I’m never sure how to react on this day, each year. I absolutely want to acknowledge the people who died that day, some heroes and some “just” victims. But this day is a dark day not just for those deaths, but also for the tone that politics took from that…
“I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.” ― Stanley Kubrick In…
Wonder Woman landed on digital download yesterday, and comes out on DVD Blu-ray on September 19th. Since its theatrical release I have heard a number of my female friends voice interest in movie to Themyscira, with countless more mentions online. And who could blame them? Between the all-women population, the…
When it came to music I wasn’t exactly a late bloomer, but I did follow a strange path. As a small child I listened almost exclusively to classical, film scores, soundtracks1, and musicals. My main exposure to pop music was what I absorbed through osmosis by way of my parents. This…
So the day before the Unite the Right rally, I posted on my Facebook page that I was tired and was going to log off for a bit. It wasn’t just that rally that had worn me down, it was a ton of smaller things leading up to it. For…
The way these ranking lists work is simple. I use a weighted system which takes into account game sales, player review scores, and professional review scores for a whole bunch of games on a given system. My personal opinions are irrelevant. All of our opinions are irrelevant. We are all…
It’s already been a whole week (or alternately, it’s only been a week?) since Trump posted his tweet policy update banning trans individuals from serving in the US military in any way. Since then the fervor has died down a bit because Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford wrote a…
Fan-favorite creators GAIL SIMONE and CAT STAGGS make their stunning Image debut with this mind-bending new ongoing series! A slick and ruthless Chicago hitman. A smart but downtrodden Seattle housewife. When an inexplicable event strikes these two random strangers, their bodies, souls, and lives are switched to potentially deadly effect.…
