All that follows is from Shae’s 2017 Fantasy Football Season in which Allan from the Houston Event took first place. Allan is a staunch Baltimore Ravens follower, Hard liquor, texas living and Star Wars junkie having human. What follows is totes true *winky face*. And now to set the scene: It is a beautiful present day Texas. Birds chirp from the limbs of cacti, the faint baby-like rattle of a snake can be heard off in…
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Hello Internet! Well, it’s December and you know what that means? It’s time for another installment of Marshall’s Cavalcade of Holiday Horror! This time we will be talking about one of the greatest games ever made: Zombies Ate My Neighbors for the Super Nintendo (Also Sega Genesis, but who cares?). The Game Zombies Ate My Neighbors is a love letter to the horror movie genre. It honors the B-movie schlock from the 50’s on up….
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Hello Internet! It’s been a while, how have you been? That’s good. I’m good as well, but a lot has happened in those few months that we haven’t talked. I don’t really want to go into it. There, now we’re all caught up! New Territory This post is going to deviate slightly from my previous posts in that it’s only going to be indirectly about video games. For a while now I’ve wanted to create…
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E-Wing Mk II Billed as the superiority fighter of the Rebel Alliance after the fall of the Empire, hopes were initially high for the E-wing. However, the complexity of the design lead to some early system failures during the rigors of combat. The laser cannon power cells were prone to catastrophic overheating, which, given the close proximity to the engines, could lead to crippling damage to weapons and flight capability. Tried and True Even…
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Hello Internet! Today we are going to talk about one of my favorite little black sheep, Doom 3. As you should already know because you area a die-hard follower of my blog, I’m a huge fan of the Doom franchise. The original Doom has a special place in my heart for introducing me to the world of videogames. Doom 3 also has a special place in my heart for re-introducing me back into the world…
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Speaking of vices (as I did in my last post), I’ve recently been thinking about guilty pleasures. Most of my life, I never really had a guilty pleasure and always felt super-lame when asked. I would embarrassedly admit (then insist) that I was not interesting enough to have one. Until now! The Pleasure I am an educated, intelligent, and mostly rational individual. I believe in the scientific method. I am quick to check out of conversations…
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I spent a better part of this morning chatting with a coworker about our favorite TV shows. We shared theories on Game of Thrones, discussed the ups and downs of Breaking Bad, and dissected the ending of The Sopranos. I’ve danced these steps a number of times with different partners and, as always, we eventually make our way around to The Wire. “You don’t like The Wire,” she said with wide eyes and a dropped…
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A Look at The Simpsons Arcade Game Hello, internet! I’m excited about this new post because I’m about to combine two of my absolute favorite things: video games and The Simpsons. Now, there are a lot of Simpsons-related games out there, and most of them are crap, but I’m going to focus on one of the good ones, the best one actually. And that one is The Simpsons Arcade Game! If you thought I was…
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It’s been about five months since I’ve written a blog post. Sure, I could blame the budding of a new relationship, the death of my step-dad, or multiple bouts of the cold/flu… But since we’re all friends here, I’ll tell you the real, honest-to-goodness reason: Procrastination Do you ever prepare to start a particularly daunting task, only to find yourself quickly engaged in another? When I was in college, this was an all-too-familiar experience: I…
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Nostalgia. Some people think of it as a dirty word; the rose-colored glasses we put on to justify our sometimes good and sometimes questionable taste. I’ve been thinking about this topic ever since I was on the Inside the Gamer podcast (which you should totally check out). On the podcast, I wondered what had happened to all of the arcade sports games, because I thought they were so much fun and I preferred them to…