Category: Featured
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Friday Finds – Downy Canadian Dinosaurs and Colliding Galaxies
Hey everybody, hope you had a fun week. Here’s the posts from this week: Movie Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D – Time did seem to stretch out before me in this, for sure. Old Game Tuesday – Civilization II – *snore* – Huh, what? I wasn’t sleeping after staying…
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Old Game Tuesday – Civilization II
Another game that needs no introduction, Civilization II is one of the most addictive games I’ve ever played. I know friends whose college classes suffered at the foot of it, long before Everquest and WoW would do the same for the next generation. Civ2 is still a go-to game for me when I want something slower-paced…
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Movie Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D
You can file this under “Movies Mike saw so you don’t have to”. I had a pair of Fandango passes that had to be used by Friday, and this was pretty much the only movie left in theaters that was age appropriate. ‘Appropriate’ might actually be a stretch, as vomit/fart/poop laden ‘comedy’ isn’t really appropriate…
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Friday Finds – Psychic Benefits and the Silmarillion
Hey all, hope you had a good week. I’ll be out of the loop a bit this weekend, though I might actually be able to do my fantasy football draft (wooo!). Here are last week’s posts: Old Game Tuesday – Star Trek: Birth of the Federation – BOTF is a solid 4X game, considering the…
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Old Game Tuesday – Star Trek: Birth of the Federation
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation (BOTF from here on out) is a turn-based 4X game based in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe. A 4X game, if you are wondering, is a game where the goal is to explore, expand, exploit and exterminate. You scout and explore territory, where it’s space (as in…
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Friday Finds – Alligator Biodiesel and a Supernova
Missed a week due to unforseen circumstances, but here are the most recent posts: Movie Review -Â Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Long title, good movie. Old Game Tuesday – Star Trek: 25th Anniversary – Star Trek’s best game? Second Class Citizen – They don’t care about us folks that still watch…
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Movies to Introduce Your Kids to Science Fiction
Giant Freakin Robot has a list of 15 movies (or movie series) to use to introduce your kids to the Science Fiction genre. I agree with many of the movies here, though you may want to pre-screen some of them as it’s been pointed out that Ghostbusters has a bit of salty language and implied…
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Movie Review – Captain America: The First Avenger
I went to see Captain America: The First Avenger this weekend, and I have to say, it was a TON of fun. It comes close, to me, to the first Iron Man as far as quality of the movie. It does lack some small bit of the emotional impact I felt with Iron Man, but…
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Friday Finds – Liquid Breathing and Sand Tiger Sharks
Hope everybody had a great week. I came home from Virginia Beach, and the weather followed me (in the 90s here in sunny Buffalo). Of course, it’ll be in the 70s in a few days…anyway, here are last week’s posts: Movie Review: Transformers: Dark of the Moon – It wasn’t an unholy abomination. I had…
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Call for Contenders – Best Star Wars Game
Since it began all those years ago with Star Wars (A New Hope), Lucas’s universe has spawned dozens of computer and console games of widely varying quality. I’m very curious to see if we can come up with any sort of consensus of what the best Star Wars games are, and if one rises to…
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Old Game Tuesday – X-Wing
First, a confession: I never played X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. This might wound my geek cred, but I just never got to it, and I had moved on to game styles than the flight sims of my youth. I also was a bit nervous about a ‘multiplayer only’ game being fun since I didn’t know…
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Kung Fu Panda 2 – Sequels 101
I saw Kung Fu Panda 2 this weekend with the kids at the Movieland 8, and we enjoyed it immensely. Even my 3 year old sat through most of it with rapt attention, except for the times when I let her little popcorn tray get empty. ;) Kung Fu Panda 2 is an excellent example…