Monday Movie Review – Red Dawn (2012)
This week is a look into a movie that, to me, made almost no sense for why it would be made for today’s audience. In the original Red Dawn, we […]
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Politics of Gaming – When to Roleplay and When to Roll
This week’s article is going to be dealing with the idea of role playing and when you should be relying on the acting ability of the player and when you […]
Monday Movie Review – Robocop (2014)
I’m not one of those people that knee jerk reacts to the news of something being remade or rebooted with cries that Hollywood has run out of ideas. I don’t […]
Monday Movie Review – The Lego Movie (2014)
This week I went and saw The Lego Movie in theaters. When I initially heard that there was going to be a movie that was somehow a Lego tie-in, my initial […]
Politics of Gaming – Soothing the Sore Loser
Everyone likes to win when you’re playing a game. It’s gratifying to feel that either you played well or that luck was one your side. The only downside to winning […]
Monday Movie Review – The Lorax (2012)
I remember really loving Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax when I was a kid. My sister even had a little stuffed Lorax toy that I can’t help but think of as […]
Politics of Gaming – House of Rules: When to Change Things Up
It’s probably safe to say that anyone that has played any standard games has encountered some house rules, where the play of the game is changed in some way to […]
Monday Movie Review – Grabbers (2012)
I’ll just got ahead and copy the synopsis given by Netflix for this movie. “Residents of an Irish island must get very drunk to survive attacks by alien monsters who […]
Monday Movie Review – Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
As soon as you see that this movie was written and directed by Kevin Smith, you pretty much know how it’s going to play out. It follows the standard Kevin […]
Politics of Gaming – Calling It Quits
Since we covered the various problems and obstacles that come with trying to get into a new gaming group last week, this week we are going to look at the […]
Monday Movie Review – Good Burger (1997)
Growing up when I did, I was pretty much right at the target audience age for the show All That on Nickelodeon. If you never watched it, All That was […]
Politics of Gaming – Getting a Group Together
So far we’ve talked about how people game and the various reasons for why they are playing. However, none of that is going to matter if you don’t actually have […]
Monday Movie Review – Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
As some of you may recall, I actually reviewed a Hansel and Gretel based movie for Horrortoberfest a few months ago. It was a goofy, modern day horror take on […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: Final Thoughts
Now that we’ve looked at the various types of players that you are likely to see, I figured it would be good to explain a bit in the more general […]
Monday Movie Review – The Host (2013)
My experience when originally hearing about this movie was like an M. Night Shyamalan plot. It’s a modern day version of the classic Body Snatchers story but in this one […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Casual Gamer
This week we are wrapping up the Know Your Player Type series with the oft maligned category of the Casual Gamer. The term “Casual Gamer” gets thrown around a lot […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Controller
To be honest, I wasn’t entirely certain I was going to include this in the list at all. Part of me feels like you can roll the Controller into a […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Mechanics Gamer
This week we talk about the player that plays the game just for the joy of playing the game. This might seem a bit strange if I had led the […]
Politics of Gaming – Know Your Player Type: The Immersion Gamer
Know Your Player Type continues on during the holiday season as we look at the opposite end of the spectrum from the Power Gamer, The Immersion Gamer. This is the […]
Monday Movie Review – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
I haven’t read any of the books that go along with the Hunger Games series but I’ve heard a lot of people talking about the second book supposedly being the […]
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