Monthly Archives: April 2015

by | April 17, 2015 · 7:23 pm

Around the Web April 17, 2015

All the biggest geek news this week seems to be about upcoming movie trailers.  First on the list was the new teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was released online yesterday and was pretty much the only thing anyone talked about for several hours.  As with many such things in this era of YouTube, a rash of reaction videos very quickly emerged, but none were quite so good as this mashup of the trailer juxtaposed with a scene from Interstellar in which Matthew McConaughey cries–now appearing as though the tears were in reaction to the trailer.

Can’t say that I blame him, honestly.  It’s a sweet trailer. Continue reading →

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by | April 16, 2015 · 10:33 am

Game Review: Bloodborne

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BloodBorne, the long awaited successor to the Demon Souls/Dark Souls line-up developed by From Software and directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, is a game that lives up to expectations while also changing the formula of its predecessors enough to make it original.   It sports a Victorian Gothic theme of experimentation with natural human chemistry and how experimentation with it eventually makes men beasts. It pulls from the era so well that the story narrative—as well as the visual representation—really calls to the popular stories of the 1900s and the curiosity surrounding the changing medical field, exemplified in books such as The Strange Case Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. As the player kills more beasts in the game, his clothing gets completely covered in blood. To further the feeling of the lycanthropic, scent is a pervasive concept in the conversations with non-player characters. Continue reading →

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by | April 14, 2015 · 11:00 am

Therefore I Geek Podcast Episode 29, Ghostbusters

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In which, Andrew, Tracy, and Kyle White spend an afternoon watching the original Ghostbusters and then chat about why the movie is the “perfect comedy.”  We also discuss where Harold Ramis took his acting inspiration, why the special effects have held up so well, over thirty years later, and how Sigourney Weaver is especially hot in dark eye makeup and big hair.

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by | April 13, 2015 · 3:53 pm

To Watch or Not To Watch: An ASOIAF Fan’s Dilemma

Game-of-thrones-season-5-posters-7With the recent news that HBO’s Game of Thrones will indeed finish the story in advance of the release of books six, seven (and maybe eight?), thousands of ASOIAF fans found themselves facing a tough decision. Do I keep watching, or not?

Thus far, the Game of Thrones fandom has been divided into two distinct parts – those who haven’t read the books, and those who snickered viciously as their friends reacted to the Red Wedding. However, the playing field is about to be leveled – soon all fans will be in the dark about what’s going to happen next episode or next season, which popular character is about to kick it, or which characters are about to come on the scene and shake things up. Continue reading →

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