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It really shouldn’t have been any surprise, that the Bad Bunny performance would be so ridden with vile content (in whatever language it was “sung” in).   Or there was one person who is now a bit more educated on matters than I had been before this morning.  I understand now, and I see that “entertainment” like what happened at the Super Bowl is just going to continue and grow increasingly worse.

It turns out that ever since 2020 or so the Super Bowl halftime shows have been produced by Jay-Z.  The guy who made an unconscionable amount of money rapping about gangs, drugs, sex, violence… you get the picture.  I will never understand why it is that some of the most negative aspects of the human condition are so commonly deemed to be high art to be praised by all.  But we are far from the glorious years of ...

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For a few months now I’ve debated whether or not to make this post.  I gave the company at issue a gracious amount of time to respond to the very MANY people who had taken them at their word and trusted them to produce a great product.

However it has now been almost seven months since anything in the way of official word has been published.  That should have been plenty of time to let the backers know what’s up.  Claiming that it’s been caught up in “manufacturing problems” isn’t cutting it anymore.

So it’s time for Mythic Games to level with us: Is there going to ever be a release of the Monsterpocalypse Board Game?

I’ve written before about my fondness for Monsterpocalypse: the miniatures game about giant kaiju monsters thrashing it out with one another atop a city that the players build, then demolish.  Monsterpocalypse was first ...

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This coming December will mark thirty years since the original computer game Doom was released by id Software.  Gadzooks!!  Where did all that time go to?!?  Well, Doom sucked me in hard and refused to release its grip.  There had been a few first-person shooters before, notably id’s own Wolfenstein 3-D.  But it was Doom that showed off the REAL potential of the genre.  And it broke the ground for other high-drama atmospheric entries in the category, like Star Wars: Dark Forces, Duke Nukem 3-D, and Quake.  Those in turn showed the way for more advanced games in the forthcoming generations, such as Halo and Call of Duty.

But no matter how advanced home computers and gaming consoles have become, my heart belongs to 1993’s Doom and its contemporaries.  Especially for how editable it was, and it seemed like everyone and their brother was creating WAD files containing new graphics ...

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Behold my new Ork big mek with kustom force field:

This is a model that I assembled three years ago, in the initial days of the COVID pandemic.  It seemed there wasn’t going to be much travel for awhile, and there were a few Warhammer 40,000 minis that I had accumulated but never gotten around to giving much attention toward.  It was as good a thing as any to occupy myself with.  I put this together and it finally dawned on me that the lockdown could last months instead of weeks.  So he just kinda lingered unpainted on a shelf.

Anyway it’s now 2023 and Warhammer 40K is hotter than ever and poised to get even bigger.  And I wanted to see if I still had my mad mini-painting skillz.  I’m rather pleased with how this little fella turned out.  So far as in-game mechanics goes, a big mek carrying ...

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Way back around 2009 or so I got into the Warhammer 40,000 miniature game hobby.  It started with the now-legendary Assault on Black Reach boxed set, which included two armies: Space Marines and Orks.  I had a lot of fun putting the miniatures together and painting them, and then played against other people at game stores in Greensboro and Burlington.  There are a lot of different factions in Warhammer 40K but I gravitated toward the Orks as my favorite.  It’s hard not to like a mob of green-skinned hooligans shootin’ and cuttin’ their way through the opposition all the while screaming “WAAAGH!”

In the years since I drifted toward other things, but Warhammer 40,000 never left my mind.  I love the setting, the lore, the beautiful miniatures, the various armies to choose from… there’s a lot of good to be said about it.  The game is over 35 years ...

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Perhaps I’m being biased in saying this, but I’ve thought this for a long time: my high school (I’m a proud alum of Rockingham County Senior High) produced some really talented people. Last night I shared a link to the blog of one such person. And tonight I’m gonna share another…

I met T.J. Lee in the summer of 1988 during an enrichment program, so we’ve known each other for awhile. But I didn’t learn of his website Tailgate365 until a few months ago…

Well, what can I say other than this site is pure-D T.J. Lee! It’s got entertainment news (in fact Tailgate365 is where I first heard about Henry Caville being the next actor to play Superman), movie trailers, reviews of films and video games, all kinds of good stuff. It even has recipes! One of which, for Jack Daniels wings, I am getting sorely ...

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Click on over to ComingSoon.net for the story that I thought had to have been a joke when I first heard about it this morning.

But it’s true: Disney is purchasing Marvel Entertainment and everything that comes with it – comics, characters, movies, the whole shebang – for $4 billion in cash and stock transaction.

All that I can think of at the moment is that this will probably become the entertainment industry’s equivalent to Ted Turner’s Time Warner purchasing of America Online....

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It was thirty years ago this week that the Sony Walkman – the gadget that gave birth to portable music – made its debut. To commemorate the occasion, BBC Magazine asked 13-year old Scott Campbell (above) to yield his iPod for seven days in favor of a classic Walkman. And young master Scott wrote about the experience…

When I wore it walking down the street or going into shops, I got strange looks, a mixture of surprise and curiosity, that made me a little embarrassed.

As I boarded the school bus, where I live in Aberdeenshire, I was greeted with laughter. One boy said: “No-one uses them any more.” Another said: “Groovy.” Yet another one quipped: “That would be hard to lose.”

My friends couldn’t imagine their parents using this monstrous box, but there was interest in what the thing was and how it worked.

In some classes in school

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This coming weekend the Theatre Guild of Rockingham County‘s Childrens Theater will be presenting Monster in the Closet at Rockingham Community College’s Advanced Technologies Building Auditorium.

Directed by Tony Hummel, Monster in the Closet is the age-old story of that most primal of human fears: that deep within our closet there lurks some twisted fiend. Pity poor Emily then: it is not her imagination that there really is a monster abiding in the darkness, and her best friend saw it too. But beastie Murray has his own problems: he doesn’t want to scare the kids. This lovable slacker merely longs to play Emily’s new video game… no matter what his boss says.

Monster in the Closet plays this Friday, March 6th at 7:30 p.m., then on Saturday, March 7th at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 pm., and a final performance on Sunday, March 8th at 2:30 p.m. Visit the Theatre ...

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