I started this blog post trying to write about The Room, a movie that’s a disaster but a very entertaining disaster, a… passion? vanity? project by filmmaker (auteur? lunatic?) Tommy Wiseau that I’ve written about before. I wanted to write about The Room because I jut saw Megalopolis, a passion? vanity? project by Francis Ford… Continue reading A Hot Take About A Current Movie
SHIPtember 2024
I took part in SHIPtember this year, an informal building event where you try and make a space ship out of Lego bricks during September. Well, not just any ship, a SHIP: a Seriously Huge Investment In Parts that measures at least 100 studs long (which is around 80cm or 31.5 inches). Point is, it’s… Continue reading SHIPtember 2024
I’ll Wait This Time
There’s a new Star Wars video game out! In Outlaws you play as a scoundrel who’s doing (space) crime as she makes her way through the galaxy, avoiding the Empire and running in with the rough and tumble of the Outer Rim. It sounds pretty cool. I say sounds because even though it came out… Continue reading I’ll Wait This Time
Fine, But There’s Fan Service
I’ve been watching the second season of Rings of Power here and there. I’m not quite caught up yet, and part of that has been because the second season has been mostly fine. It’s difficult to explain why it’s all just so ‘fine’ without going into long rambles about how and where it diverges from… Continue reading Fine, But There’s Fan Service
For Its Sake
So I’ve been playing a bunch of Battlegrounds lately, slipping into old habits and all that. As I’m playing the game I’ve been trying to get better at it, to be able to take on computers on harder difficulties. This is taking some getting used to: my strategy games for the past several years have… Continue reading For Its Sake
Heat Wave
The high in my part of Los Angeles has hovered around 40ºC this week and cracked it a few times. To say things have been hot feels like an understatement. It’s a heat that’s exhausting, a heat that strains my poor aircon (and the city’s power grid, if yesterday’s rolling blackouts were any indication). There’s… Continue reading Heat Wave
Shaun of The Normal
I saw Shaun of The Dead today during its rerelease in theaters. It’s a movie I haven’t seen in over a decade so it was fun to revisit it, especially in a theater with all the fun that entails. The movie’s still great, loads of fun and you can see so many of the markers… Continue reading Shaun of The Normal
Perfectly Fine
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen Twister, but like most children of the nineties, I've seen various snatches of it on tv and studied the VHS case. Twister was just another movie that I never saw and the sequel was going to follow its shoes until I decided to do a double feature with it… Continue reading Perfectly Fine
Back To The Battlegrounds
Through an endeavor of emulation, I’ve managed to get Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds running on a Mac. The little hiccups of wanting to play a game that you own the Windows edition of on Steam when you exist in a Mac-based environment. But I got it working! And I, once again, revisited an old Star… Continue reading Back To The Battlegrounds
Inconvenience
In I Am Bread you play as a slice of bread that roams around a room with the goal of becoming toast. It’s very silly and also quite frustrating. You don’t move around in a conventional video game way, instead, each shoulder button on the controller lets a corner of the bread 'grab' a surface… Continue reading Inconvenience
Essays, Not Rants! 