Much earlier this year, I came across references to a new RPG from the Gauntlet, a group whose podcasts I’ve been listening to for several years now. They’re a group of people who run, review, and publish role playing games. Originally based out of Austen, Texas, they have largely moved online. The RPG in question was a new game from designer Jason Cordova, Public Access, and and I paid the $15 to get the pdf of it as soon as I saw it had gone live.
Read MoreSomehow, though, famously bad – or just forgettable – movies like Super Mario Brothers, Waterworld, the Star Wars prequel trilogy, the Joel Schumacher Batman movies, Event Horizon, Starship Troppers, and Demolition Man are getting treated as hidden gems. Some of these I see the point with, others I don’t. Hell, I’ve done similar things in my own life with such films as Mystery Men. Is this simple nostalgia, or is it something else?
Read MoreThis began as a review for Cyberpunk 2077 and changed into something else. From the piece:
The real world didn’t copy cyberpunk, but it rhymed it, and then one-upped it. A novel set in the real 2021, that accurately reflects it, sent back to Gibson or one of his contemporaries, would be an incomprehensible trip: a hit of uncut psychedelia that would be both banal and mind-shattering (equal parts Dick and Ballard, shot as a documentary).
