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  • Metal Gear Solid: North Of Nostalgia

    (The tl;dr companion video to this article): History has a tendency to repeat itself, it would seem. That would go a hell of a long way in explaining why I have such a strong sense of deja-fucking-vu with these god damn feelings of mubble-fubbles bubbling up When I started replaying Metal Gear Solid 4 (MGS4)… Read more

  • Doom: Revelations- Hell’s Boogeyman

    (The tl;dr video companion for the article). Sometimes, the worst kinds of hell end up being the most inane thing you hadn’t even imagined. Unfortunately, those are the ones that haunt you for the rest of your days… Heading into the “finale” of Doom: The Dark Ages | Revelations, the latest DLC release for the… Read more

  • Doom: Revelations- Hell Vs. The FTL Slaughter Train

    (The tl;dr video companion to the article) If it ain’t broke….don’t fix it. Like I said: if it’s worked for you thus far, keep on keeping on… With us being knee deep in the dead at this point, as we have ventured a fair distance into Doom: The Dark Ages DLC, Revelations, and have no… Read more

  • Doom: Revelations- Transcendental Bloodlust

    (the tl;dr companion video for this article:) Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, as the old saying goes. A modern day example of this idiom may involve the idea that one should make sure that they have social engagements that aren’t solely 100% through online interaction, for psychologically relevant reasons There has been… Read more

  • Doom: The Dark Ages | Revelations- Oh Boy, Here I Go Ripping And Tearing Again

    (the tl;dr video companion to this article) “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” — John Milton (Paradise Lost) The hell we suffer always seems to be one of our own making Not sure if my currently fouled mood is based solely off… Read more

  • Halo: Campaign Evolved-Mourning The Death of Nostalgia

    The problem with relying on any system to provide value, is two fold. Firstly, handing the keys to someone else in regards to your happiness means you’re trading your own agency away, and secondly, even if you buy into what they tell you will make you happy, you may end up trying to live the… Read more

  • Halo: Campaign Evolved: The Brute Sensibilities Of Nostalgic Reprise

    Life is one big grey area, and due to this notion, it’s of great importance one appreciates how the black and white all blend together to create the intricate majesty of existence. So majestic… For anyone following along with my Halo coverage thus far, one may jump to the conclusion I am not that big… Read more

  • Halo: Campaign Evolved-Doing It Looney Tunes Style

    (Companion vid, aka the tl;dr version)- Lamentable as life may seem at times, value is ultimately perspective, and you’re the only person who can ever define what’s good about the everyday for yourself. Whatever you end up valuing, hopefully it doesn’t involve whatever the fuck this show is The general sentiment that has pervaded my… Read more

  • Halo: Campaign Evolved-Cutting Out The Beating Heart

    You know those days when you wake up, and you are either already in immense pain or immediately hurt yourself when getting out of bed? Aging not fun. When not even the hamburger helps, you know you’re well and truly fucked For the past week I’ve been playing the retelling that is Halo: Campaign Evolved… Read more

  • Halo: Campaign Evolved-The Good, The Bad And The Remade

    This much is true: you’ll find many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. One man’s mean slight is another man’s peaceful night In a moment that seemed to be one of sheer reluctance, I started writing about my time with Halo: Campaign Evolved (H:CEv) yesterday. The reticence… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Licensed To Thrill

    As Mark Twain asserted; history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. This would go a long way in explaining why my philosophical lamentations sound so sing songy Here we are, at the end of all things. At least, at the end of all things GoldenEye 64 related, as we bring to a close a… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Dynamite With A Laser Beam

    While the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets a lot of praise for post credits surprises, they were not the first ones to do it, as the Muppets beat them to the punch decades before hand. When worlds collide: the thought of Animal being apart of The Avengers initiative holds great interest for me With 007 finally… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64:Downstairs Mix-up

    The old saying goes it’s always darkest before the dawn… …and sometimes, *you* continue to persist as the darkest thing sulking about, even after the dawn After the impressively vile and rampantly chaotic liquid shitting episode that any replay of the level Control turns out to be (at least on 00 Agent), we move into… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy

    Though this next bit of darkly shaded humor may mean nothing to you at the moment, after reading this write-up about one of the final missions in GoldenEye, I urge you to go read The Myth of Sisyphus (or at least a tl;dr summary), to truly appreciate the idea behind the premise of this article,… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Ubermensching Through The Undergrowth

    We get by with a little help from our friends… …no matter what’s on the agenda for the day After admiring some trans-continental bilingualism in the form of broadcasting self-aware meta media-literacy on a train yesterday, we move on from a proper derailing and find our selves in the Jungle, as our replay of GoldenEye… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: I Don’t Like Depots.They’re Coarse And Rough And Irritating…

    We all end up “oofing” every now and then, even the best of us… …it’s only when the oofing continues to persist does it end up turning into a big ole pile of yikes LAST TIME, ON GOLDENEYE Z! 64!, after super sonic racing right through the Archives level, in a fine testament to speedrunning,… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Streets Ahead

    In times of stressful need, one has to have effective ways to blow off some steam, in order to give themselves a little self love, for the sake of cognitive clarity and psychological well being. …cause it’s definitely going to get worse before it gets better After our brief excursion with ATE’s weekly Words of… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Drowning In Minutia

    An old turn of phrase suggests one “stop to smell the roses”. Whoever said this never stopped to consider the possibility of one having taken a shit in the flower bed before you got there, and now you’re profusely gagging after taking a huge whiff of floral asshole Today, on our continuing replay of GoldenEye… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: The Phantom Pains Of Fallen Empires

    In the grand scheme of things, context takes on many forms; one child’s energetic playtime may be an adult’s calming respite. There even existed a store, way back in the 20th century that even allowed consumers to rent such “context” Powering on through our replay of GoldenEye 64, and now that we have safely escaped… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Das Bond

    They say never judge a book by its cover. People say a lot of stupid fucking things, don’t they? As we move forward with our replay of GoldenEye 64, after a brief excursion into totally off the map, extra canonical bullshit territory, with our trapesing through the terrifying terrain that troublingly terrorizes with titanic thermonbaric… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: The Hallowed Halls Of Hollow Men

    Amdist the bombast and the bullet holes, the violence born of national woes, stands tall and proud the human spirit, with all of their eloquent prose. Well, if it’s true what they say about people being made in “god’s image”, then god is just some freak ass gooner chud pumping loads to Power Rangers porn… Read more

  • Goldeneye 64: Cool Is The Rule

    “Men are more governed by their passions then reason”, a paraphrasing of a sentiment expressed by philosopher David Hume. In the realm of gaming, this loosely translates to: hang the sense of it, ask yourself the real question: is it cool? Cool happens when your heart is in the right place Dovetailing from my last… Read more

  • Goldeneye 64: Surface Level Affairs

    Flirting with disaster is always more fun when you’re the one holding the ace up your sleeve. After I used the word disaster, Reagan popped into my mind. How peculiar… As we continue on with our little soiree behind the iron curtain, and sally forth with our “Bonding Experience” as we replay Goldeneye 64, we… Read more

  • Goldeneye 64: Ambition Stifled By Reality

    What goes up, must come down …and the bigger they are… Following on the heels of a post I found rather peak, peak enough that I strongly considered just going out on a high note and saying hang the sense of doing the rest of the god damn runthrough of Goldeneye 64, cause there’s no… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Content Exceeds Commerce

    The quote from The Big Lebowski sums it up pretty well: “Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes…the bar eats you.” A friendly reminder that life is full of ups and downs, strikes and gutters, and you’ve just got to take them as they come, and maintain your sense of chill and calm no matter… Read more

  • GoldenEye 64: Being Quiet In A Really Loud Way

    The design ethics of GoldenEye 64 brings to mind that quote from Futurama: “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.” And other times, expectations are just too damn ridiculous to begin with Continuing on from yesterday, where I finally made my triumphant return to the world of the… Read more

  • My Friendly Neighborhood: Going Gonzo

    It takes all kinds to make a world… And if we borrow from the logic inherent in genetic legacy, the more diverse the better November has been quite the queer journey through spacetime, as its only been a little over a week since the month began, and yet October feels like yesterday. I suppose I… Read more

  • Standing Guard At The Gates Of Reason And Turmoil

    In my many years on this Earth, one important notion that has continually revealed itself to be more true with the passage of time is simply: nothing is ever quite what it seems. Gotta read between those lines, y’all Another Saturday has arrived, and with it, another terrible batch of the Sorrows to go along… Read more

  • System Shock: The Radical Past Creating Presence For The Standard Future

    In attempting to navigate the world mindlessly, one can certainly make an ass out of themselves without even realizing it. What I imagine drivers who don’t use their turn signals look like In a slightly related notion of incidentally mindless traversal, I inadvertently screwed myself this very day, as instead of getting to writing about… Read more

  • Quick Posit: The Price Of Bad Press?

    Not much time to write today, which means this has to be a drive by posting of sorts, as I briefly sift through all of the gaming nonsense and comment on something quickly before I move on This leaves me with the thought of the $80 price tag talking point for video games that keeps… Read more

  • Hell Needs Mood Lighting, Too

    With enough practice, one can even master the domain of hell. I’m not sure if this same logic is why Doom games have a “take it easy on me” break in period in earlier levels, but the warm up rounds of mindfully restrained sense of posturing make the burning sensation of hellfire a lot more… Read more

  • Will 007 First Light Finally dissipate The Long Shadow Cast By Goldeneye?

    The amount of heavy lifting Goldeneye 64 did for the Bond name is a Rare feat The gameplay trailer showcased for 007 First Light at Sony’s State of Play revealed a confident showing from IO Interactive, the developers behind the Hitman series, who are letting the gaming world know loud and clear that much like… Read more

  • Doom: Going To Hell For Mental Health Reasons

    Try as I might, I am not always able to clear my head to get a full fledged article out in the time I have allotted to me in a given night, a reality I’ve had to deal with recently. Between a full time job, taking care of my cat, chores around the apartment, exhausted… Read more

  • Doom: The Dark Ages-Metaphysics of Hell

    The Doom series has gone to great lengths to establish itself as a staple; not just for the shooter genre, but for video games as a whole. With frenetic, over the top action that has few competitors within the same realm of intensity, Doom as en entity never seems to slow its roll, as each… Read more

  • Doom: The Dark Ages: One Hell of A Compromise

    All hell has broken loose…again. I’m of course referring to the recent launch of DOOM: The Dark Ages, which has felt like a longtime coming, with Eternal having launched back in March 202 we0, back during the start of the pandemic. It was a shitty time, to say the least Dark times indeed, though we… Read more

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