2013 – the year I moved out of my parent’s house and didn’t write about James Bond (unlike last year). Here’s a round-up of what was on my mind throughout the annual rotation of the planet around the Sun. Why Hitman: Absolution Isn’t Quite Right – 02/01 Having received the…
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January 1, 2014 at 12:00 pm | The Year in Blogs | No comment
Tags: bitching about video games, they're just toys!, yearly summary
I’ve always had a little bit of an obsession with Batman, particularly when it comes to the Joker. I don’t know why I’ve always had this fascination with the purple-dressed pale-faced psychopath, especially since I do suffer from coulrophobia1. My fascination started with Jack Nicholson’s portrayal in the Tim Burton…
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December 1, 2013 at 7:34 pm | Action Figures, Batman, Manchild at Play (Toys), Villains | 4 comments
Tags: 1966 TV Batman, Arkham Asylum, Arkham Origins, Batman, Batman comics, Cesar Romero, DC Collectibles, DC Comics, Mark Hamill, the Joker, they're just toys!
The wind whistles against the windows. The storm is picking up again. I reach over and turn the dial up on my electric heater. The lamp on the desk flickers, temporarily bathing the room in darkness, leaving me with only the laptop screen to illuminate my hands. It’s almost 1AM…
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October 31, 2013 at 8:34 pm | Halloween | 1 comment
Tags: creepypasta, Halloween
I had the pleasure of unexpectedly dog-sitting with my girlfriend this week. Consider this post to be an extended apology to the dog in question. There’s a conflicting dichotomy at work here. Regard the following: I have always been a die-hard cat lover. I realise the odds are good that…
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October 20, 2013 at 3:14 pm | Real Life | No comment
Tags: As Good as it Gets, cats, dogs, dogs vs. cats, Jack Nicholson, Jim Carrey
You may already be aware of a small obsession I have with the Batman Arkham games and the toys based on those character designs – I’ve shown off my little collection before in a self-indulgent display of “look how much disposable income I have (LOL)”. You can consider this to…
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September 28, 2013 at 12:00 pm | Action Figures, Batman, Manchild at Play (Toys) | 8 comments
Tags: Arkham City, Batman, DC Collectibles, Solomon Grundy
Recently I had the massive urge to replay SPORE, mostly because that funny Canadian chap Sips of the Yogscast has been giving it a go and it did look damned fun. I thought I’d chronicle the birth and growth of a species of my own design, just for kicks. What…
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September 21, 2013 at 2:35 am | Articles, Video Games | No comment
Tags: EA Games, Maxis, playing god, SPORE
Have you heard the news? Courtesy of my favourite Taiwanese news-reporting animation team! The internet has exploded over the announcement of “Batfleck” (don’t blame me, I didn’t come up with the name – I was going to call him “BatAffleck”). The issue was even particularly contentious in the office where…
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August 25, 2013 at 4:13 pm | Batman, Films, Vaguely Topical | 2 comments
Tags: Batfleck, Batman, Batman films, Ben Affleck, Superman, topical issues
I bloody love Back to the Future. Who doesn’t? You’d have to literally be the worst person in the world not to. It’s just wholesome good fun, a story about two friends – a rebellious teen and a crazy mad scientist. You couldn’t get this film made today. You know…
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August 15, 2013 at 11:13 pm | LEGO, Manchild at Play (Toys) | No comment
Tags: Back to the Future, Doc Brown, geekgasm, LEGO, Marty
I don’t know much about music, and I don’t really want to know too much about the mechanics of song-writing. I’ve always been worried that knowing how music works will take some of the magic out of listening to it; I don’t want to be mid-way through one of my…
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August 10, 2013 at 1:54 pm | Articles, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Deadly Premonition, ELO, FFVII, Final Fantasy, Green Day, Led Zeppelin, Maxi Priest, music, Pink Floyd, Road Rash II, Sonic Spinball, Sonic the Hedgehog, Soul II Soul, Streets of Rage, Will Smith
The following is completely opinion-based, has no factual basis and should be taken at face value for what it is – a biased diatribe against government control of the web. Oh dear. It’s time for another of those blog posts that’s topical and probably won’t have any relevance in a…
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July 23, 2013 at 10:36 pm | Opinion Pieces, Technology, Vaguely Topical | 2 comments
Tags: David Cameron is a lizard, incompetent goverments, pr0n, topical issues
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