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Highway 17 Revisited: November 2010
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Monday, November 29, 2010. Top 25 Albums #20. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon. John Lennon- not the hippie icon, not the heartless prick, not the saint- is this album. Is a landmark in confessional singing and songwriting, and one of the most brutally sincere tear-jerkers ever put to wax. Tuesday, November 9, 2010. Top 25 Albums #21. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel. An indie classic, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. Monday, November 1, 2010. To be impenetrable, but I would ven...
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Highway 17 Revisited: December 2010
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Monday, December 6, 2010. Top 25 Albums #19. The Beatles - The Beatles. Ah, here we are. The first album on my list to be written and recorded by those mop-headed Britons everyone goes on and on about. And this one is a doozy. Released in 1968, The Beatles. Or The White Album, as it's more commonly referred to for obvious reasons) had to confront a daunting question: how the hell do you follow up Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The bouncy bassline in "Dear Prudence"? Weirdness of "Wild Honey Pie"?
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Highway 17 Revisited: February 2011
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Sunday, February 13, 2011. Top 25 Albums #15. Exile on Main St. - The Rolling Stones. The creation of Exile on Main St. One can see the blissed-out bodies slumped in the corner, smell the ash, booze, and sweat, taste the heavy basement air. The true Rolling Stones fan loves the filler as much as the hits, and where Beggars Banquet. And Let It Bleed. Had quality filler next to awesome hits, Exile. Is like a deep, dank mine loaded (loded? Is worthy of adoration. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Tales of a Scorc...
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Highway 17 Revisited: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. And also. Well, I'm rarely this uncertain about my own feelings toward a game. Is the sequel to 2007's captivating first-person puzzler, an inspiring success story in which a senior capstone project, Narbacular Drop. Developer Valve that the company hired the students to work on a small title to be released within their Orange Box. Compilation so as to minimize risk. That game was Portal. A sequel in the truest sense, Portal 2. S mechanics remain in place, Portal 2. Often make f...
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Highway 17 Revisited: October 2010
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Friday, October 29, 2010. Top 25 Albums #24. The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips. Here's a funny conceit for an album: songs about bugs, bug bites, scratches, gashes, and bleeding as ruminations on mortality, love, humanity, and possibly heroin. Somehow, these aging Oklahoman psych-rockers were able to pull it off. with aplomb. Top 25 Albums #25. The Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse. Is overflowing with mind-bending ideas and sounds. My Favorite Albums of All Time*. Right, so, music. It may be a produ...
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videolamer.com Review – Superman Returns
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Laquo; Review – No More Heroes. Review – Age of Empires: Age of Kings (and Crashing). Review – Superman Returns. Posted on February 19th, 2008 by zenstrabo. As you are happily whiling away the hours on the great games that have come out in the past few months, allow me to darken your day with another reminders of how much shit last year’s flood of licensed games sucked. Is it against nature to fantasize that being Superman could be fun, or that a company will value quality as much as profit margins?
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videolamer.com 2012 Retrospective – Part 2
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Laquo; 2012 Retrospective Part 1. 2012 Retrospective – Part 2. Posted on January 15th, 2013 by chris. Continued from the previous article. This is a set of mini-reviews from stuff I didn’t get the chance to actually write about in 2012. Pros: Practically plays itself, without the tedious gambits of FFXII. Cons: If it plays itself, why does the player need to be there? Crusader Kings II (PC). Pros: Deep, varied strategic gameplay. Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (3DS). Although I don’t like the direction the se...
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Highway 17 Revisited: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. Global Game Jam 2011. This past weekend, I attended the Global Game Jam for the first time. A Game Jam is basically 48 hours in which you and a few teammates develop a game (video game or board game) that adheres to a general guiding theme given to you at the start. This process of iteration and refining through playtesting led us to our final design, a board game called Nonexistent Pirates! Monday, January 17, 2011. Top 25 Albums #16. Is This It - The Strokes. Is worthy of ever...
