The other day I finally managed to cross off one of the things on my (admittedly rather limited and lacking in scope) list of things I’ve always wanted to do (aside from buy a plastic figure of Dr. Robotnik). For years I’ve made do with wooden shelves, converted bedside cabinets…
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June 1, 2013 at 12:00 pm | Action Figures, Batman, Manchild at Play (Toys), Video Games | 3 comments
Tags: Agent 47, Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Army of Darkness, Batman, Captain Jack Sparrow, DC Collectibles, Dr. Eggman, Dr. Robotnik, Evil Dead, Hitman, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Pirates of the Caribbean, Solid Snake, Sonic the Hedgehog, Tekken, the Joker, they're just toys!
In this week’s guest blog post, Sam gives us a brief overview of why Hollywood still has some way to go when it comes to gender equality, and explains why attempts to make a strong female lead can backfire and result in removing part of what makes them a woman….
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May 25, 2013 at 12:00 pm | Films, James Bond, Three Blokes and a Chick Watch | 3 comments
Tags: Alien, Batman, feminism, guest blog, Resident Evil, Robocop, Terminator, the Avengers
Warning: this blog post contains spoilers for not just the ending of Fallout: New Vegas, but the expanded DLC (DownLoadable Content) missions too. One of the first articles I placed on the Blogsplosion was a lengthy exploration of my character Max Valerion, within which I explained my disappointment at how…
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May 19, 2013 at 2:34 pm | Articles, Video Games, Villains | No comment
Tags: Bethesda, Fallout: New Vegas, Max Valerion, RPG
I rarely join in with fandoms having gut reactions to changes in their beloved franchises, especially negative ones. One of my prouder fan moments must have been reserving judgement about Daniel Craig back when he was first announced as being the next James Bond. The tabloids shit themselves inside-out with…
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April 25, 2013 at 6:24 pm | Batman, Random Guesswork, Video Games | 2 comments
Tags: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Batman, bitching about video games
Very recently I fixed a small injustice in my life, by spending what most would class as an extortionate amount of money on a small figure my five year old self was denied, not because my parents didn’t buy it for me, but because it simply didn’t exist. It’s Dr….
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February 25, 2013 at 12:17 am | Articles, Video Games, Villains | 3 comments
Tags: boss fights, Dr. Eggman, Dr. Robotnik, impractical death machines, Sonic the Hedgehog
When you run a WordPress-based blog (like this), you have to take measures to ensure that the people commenting are actually people. There are these clever programs that scamper about the web looking for WordPress sites to leave spam comments on. Then, once you’ve got those covered, you have to…
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January 24, 2013 at 8:38 pm | Spammers, Technology | 4 comments
Tags: poetry, search engine optimisation, spam, spambots
Disclaimer: this blog post assumes you have a modicum of knowledge about the Hitman series of games. If not, there’s not much point in reading further! I’ve also tried to keep this as spoiler-free as possible. I’m well aware that it’s all too easy to use the internet to bitch…
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January 2, 2013 at 4:40 am | Reviews, Video Games | No comment
Tags: Agent 47, bitching about video games, Hitman, Hitman: Absolution, Square-Enix
Here’s a yearly round-up of all the blog posts I made through 2012! The year where I tried to turn my blog into being exclusively about James Bond! Why I Can’t Be a Bastard in Fallout: New Vegas – 26/04 “Max Valerion” was a character I created in Fallout 3,…
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January 1, 2013 at 11:00 am | The Year in Blogs | No comment
Tags: Apple, James Bond, PC vs console, yearly summary
You have to understand that there’s a reason I like Casino Royale so much. Put yourself in my position – you’ve just watched the Bond franchise fire a nail gun into its own ball-sack over and over for two hours in the absolutely dire Die Another Day, a film that…
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December 31, 2012 at 11:21 pm | Films, James Bond, Three Blokes and a Chick Watch | No comment
Tags: 007, Casino Royale, Daniel Craig, James Bond, movie recap, movie review
If there’s something to be said about A View to a Kill, it’s that it’s 80’s. Very 80’s. If AVtaK (which in itself sounds like a failed Sinclair or Amstrad computer) was a person, it would grease back its hair, wear cheap suits from Woolworths, carry a brick phone and…
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November 9, 2012 at 4:49 pm | Films, James Bond, Three Blokes and a Chick Watch | No comment
Tags: 007, A View to a Kill, Christopher Walken, James Bond, movie recap, movie review, Roger Moore
