[there be SPOILERS ahead, may it do ya fine] yesterday i finished sai Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series – entered the clearing at the end of that path it took me right around a year, all told; i think the longest extended narrative i’ve ever read by way of a mini-review: i dug it… [Read More]
The Ready Player One “Easter Egg” That Bypasses the Backlash
this quick post plays through three short stages the third contains the Easter egg all three potentially contain SPOILERS Stage One: “Microreview” if you haven’t seen Ready Player One (or read Cline’s book), you really should; particularly if you’re the target demo: a “nerd,” “geek,” pop culture afficionado of a certain stripe (70s-80s gaming, sci-fi, etc.)… [Read More]
seeing it coming [The Last Jedi SPOILERS]
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when old wineskins make way for new, who sees it coming? if one waits on royalty but receives rabble, will one still receive? and though death is obviously an end, isn’t it always also a beginning? even so . . . shred the Jedi texts and burn the sacred tree, for the force is the… [Read More]
The Witness (to God)
[Note 1: The following includes mild, implicit spoilers. Note 2: This is not an in-depth review of The Witness and assumes some prior knowledge of and interest in the game. For an excellent, straight piece that describes the game’s mechanics, contextualizes, etc., please see Jonathan Clauson’s article at Christ & Pop Culture here.] dots and lines intersect in the trees, asking: just what is the meaning of these?… [Read More]
