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Q&A: September 3rd, 2025
Duncan Gohl AsksWhich character in Cyberpunk 2077 do you wish was a romance option?...Yes.Okay, I wouldn't do that to Jackie... lucky bastard.Jake Malone AsksWhat's something you value in character creation? For me personally, if a game has a large amount of hairstyles, i consider it of high...
Recommendations: Sounds of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel
After my KMFDM binge, I've hopped back on my quest to listen to three things I've not listened to enough of... Jazz, Hip-Hop, and the reason for Sounds of Silence, classic records.You'll know this album's title track from its meme status, but everything else really is as beautiful, e...
Recommendations: Project Gotham Racing 4
One of the classic cases of a game proving it's appeal to me, is when I'm capturing footage for it, only needing a few minutes, maybe even seconds...And I play for hours.It seems to happen almost every time I play Project Gotham Racing 4. By no means is this game going to blow your mind if y...
Q&A: August 20th, 2025
Kelvin Kuang AsksThoughts on the Superman movie?Haven't seen it, though from what I hear, it sounds like James Gunn continues to be one of the few working with Superheroes that's able to add a sense of Pathos to their stories.Matthew Malone AsksHas your love for video games gone down over th...
Recommendations: Twin Peaks
Those who saw the last Q&A will not at all be surprised by this show's appearance, I must however put up a couple of warnings though...In July, I happened to be sitting around the Dinner table with some extended family. When one of them asked what am I watching right now, and I said Twin Peaks, ...
A New Experience
I've listened to Hurt - both versions - probably hundreds of times over the years. It's a song that's both stood as the culmination of a one-hour descent into self-inflicted madness, and a stand-alone three minute tearjerker. It's represented the realization of a young-man whose thro...
Recommendations: Hau Ruck by KMFDM
So I've Finally... listened to KMFDM's entire discography.I'll leave my Tier List on the bottom if you're curious, but even the D albums have absolute bangers. KMFDM sucks! And I absolutely love their decades of consistent attitude and charm.Hau Ruck's the definitive record for K...
EARLY VIDEO: I'm Not Going to Defend Perfect Dark Zero...
https://youtu.be/bQCoW5zrRJYFucking... finally!I am lying to myself, there's a typo and rendering error to sort out but... let me huff this copium.My definitive goal with the next video is to halve the number of edits I've made. Even Friday, when I thought I was going to release this and com...
Q&A: August 6th, 2025
The_Surviv0r AsksI have two long flight coming, any suggestions of things to read/listen/watch/play?I normally find myself reading on Flights, that or using whatever service they have to try shows I don't normally have access to for free.Obviously, there's the previous recommendations I'...
Recommendations: Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Ah, the latest reminder that this whole "just put a movie on instead of logging into Twitter" was such a wonderful decision. As great as was my habit of always skipping over any Essay on Youtube that discussed this movie.This movie didn't grip me immediately, in-fact, I can't really ...
Update: 31/07/2025
Hey everybody!I've been meaning to write this update for weeks, but kept putting it off as I've been admittedly pushing well beyond my work schedule I discussed in the previous update. Not to the point of sleepless nights on the floor with rendering like I've done in the past, but 7-9 ho...
Recommendations: The Death of Reality by Pixel Grip
I ain't cool.Definitely not cool enough to be dancing in darkly lit Goth Clubs with a towering dominatrix to devilish synth-beats, but damn, is it fun to listen to.Having heard Pixel Grip's previous albums, I could never get into them for more than a couple songs at a time, but the potential...
Microsoft
It's time to admit this isn't working.343 Industries: Part of my positive-view of Halo 4 I've held since release day was being impressed that a brand new developer who never made a game together before did as good of a job as they did.They made a game that in certain aspects, I even pref...
Q&A: July 23rd, 2025
Kelvin Kuang AsksDo you think there are games that had storytelling - where it's cryptic in narratives and the twists mind bending (or as Mandalore experienced, mind melting) that manage to somehow stick and gets away with it? For instance, Marathon Infinity, made amids the abundance of Doom/Qua...
Recommendations: The Catcher in the Rye
Nothing happens in The Catcher in the Rye.The amount of works that it has inspired over the years that feature dream sequences, other worldly art-styles, and time-travel might give the opposite impression but truly, this story in its plot is almost as bare bones as it gets...Which is why it's su...
We Need Composers
I've been trying to find Mass Effect music for years now, it feels like I've exhausted everything. I mean, as far back as fourteen years ago now I was listening to Artists whose Youtube pages contain their Scary Game Reaction Compilations during the height of Pewdiepie's influence.zAllex...
Q&A: July 9th, 2025
The Phantomnaut AsksIf you had a time machine to stop a certain point in gaming history, what would it be? For me I would somehow prevent Drake and Ninja to ever do that Fortnite stream that amplified our current gaming and streaming nightmares.Oh, that's a good pick! Though I can't help but...
Recommendations: Star Wars Andor
Wait... wait, wait, wait.I haven't recommend this show yet?It's moments like these where I truly believe I am in-fact, losing my goddamn mind, because I could've sworn that I already recommended this show.Well, now that the show's done, I can whole heartedly recommend it! And I'm...
Q&A: July 2nd, 2025
Scifiismyjam101 AsksWhat are some song changes, or removals in newer additions of games (due to our dear old friend licensing) that bother you personally? There is a cinematic and gameplay sequence in the OG Mafia 3 where the song "Run through the jungle" By Creedence is used to draw a paral...
Recommendations: No Hands by Joey Valence & Brae
Well this is not what I was expecting to first recommend after a recent goal of listening to more Hip-Hop.What began as a listen on a whim became a jump through the Duo's discography, but the most recent album No Hands I think is easily their best so far. My only complaint is there are perhaps a...
Cancelled > Flop
I'm very late to the party, but I'm sure you won't have a problem with me pouring one out for the hundreds of people EA recently laid-off, most notably 100+ at Respawn.I Wrote That May 11th, 2025 Last year we heard about a cancelled "Titanfall Legends" Single Player Game, and now...
Recommendations: Extraction II
In a world were I use review scores, I'd only give Extraction II a 3 out of 5.It's an improvement over the previous film but it's still littered with plot-holes, uneven pacing, and melodrama more unrealistic than anything the main character lives through.However, it's probably the mo...
Q&A: June 18th, 2025
Kelvin Kuang AsksRecalling back to your previous Randomly Mine post, Doomed For Eternal, do you think TDA is the straw that broke the camel back given the reception is kind of what you predicted it would turn out to be? And will it have the same turn around that Doom 3, for all of it's brillianc...
Recommendations: There Are No Accidents
While I've been steadily traveling down the path of viewing things systemically since I started my Adulthood in complete poverty, what little remained of viewing accidents as just a people problem vanished not even by the half way point of this book.It's not light-reading, but it's very ...
"Sandbox"
I'm glad I don't stream new games I play.Had I put my opening minutes with DONTNOD's Jusant live on air for the world to see, they would've potentially had the latest "Games Journalist Can't Play Games Clip" as I spent minutes trying to long jump a vast distance rather th...
Recommendations: Grenier Meets Archie Pelago
Thank you very, very much ThunderSnake!Probably not what most Jazz Artists would be used to hearing from someone who really enjoyed their album, but hey, whatever leads people to more joy in their lives!I expect most people going into this probably have a stereotypical view of Jazz like I did. Havin...
Q&A: June 4th, 2025
The Phantomnaut AsksI just finished watching Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning and it gave me Shadow Ops: Red Mercury vibes of dumb assery that I can love. What is your film equivalent of that game?The Fast and Furious movies after Tokyo Drift are really fun in their unapologetic absurdity m...
Recommendations: Sinners
I was pissed off walking into the movie theater.My ticket got mixed up and reserved at the wrong theater. Cineplex's app wouldn't let me refund that false ticket. The springs in my seat left marks on my ass for the years to come, and the projector's screen was so dirty, every shot of the...
Consequences
One of the movies I constantly think about is 1999's Payback. It's not one of my favorite movies, it's not even close, were I to give it a rating, it's a solid 3 out of 5. Competently shot, entertaining anti-hero characters, tons of quotable lines, and a tone that's best describe...
Update: May 27th, 2025
Hey everybody!I've been meaning to write this update for weeks now, the pattern being, I start writing my script for the Perfect Dark Zero video saying "I'll write the update after today's session," and then after four hours, I forget about it, and repeat.That's one of the re...
