Slime Salad

I'm working on a best of 2015 list for games and movies now. Here's one that definitely won't be on it!!

Titan Souls

Risking a little kid's life because your magic blood tester says he's a wizard, just to win a bet, is the most fantastically sleazy thing I've ever seen on film! Between this and refusing to help Anakin's mother, Qui-Gon really is a pompous jackass. And he's acting as a representative of the Jedi O...

Going back to prequel chat because I just learned this and I like it: Anakin's mother's name (Shmi) is derived from Lakshmi , a Hindu goddess who also goes by the name of Padma, further conflating Anakin's screwed up relationship with Padme Amidala as a mother/lover figure. The prequels have some gr...

One of my favorite bits of the prequels is how hard the fundamentalist Jedis hold on to The Prophecy in #1 and then eventually say "maybe we screwed up and this didn't mean anything/meant something completely different" in #3. Same with Yoda going from training rooms full of child soldiers...

Love this Star War talk.

Just want to say that I totally hate the novels and the video games that classify every Force power as a skill set to level up, as Giz said. For all the bellyaching about Midichlorians ruining the Force, that was always way worse to me.

On Empire: I think the Han/Leia romance is pretty terrible in general and the weakest part of the film, and the asteroid escape does serve a purpose but isn't really very interesting. I love the film for how ridiculously well shot the cinematography is on Hoth/Degobah/in the fight with Vader, and it...

I think it would have made a better, or at least more personal, action scene if the Stormtrooper Finn fought had been Phasma herself instead of just a random schmoe. It's a good scene for establishing that Stormtroopers do have some degree of hand to hand combat training, but it's very weirdly execu...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Enjoy, this one's a stupid long article with typos I'll fix tomorrow when I'm more awake.

Seeing everyone as pathetic failures who deserved to get clowned also works, and it turns Palpatine into the protagonist, or at the very least, the audience identification character. And he certainly has more fun in these movies than anyone else! It's not as effective of a villain-protagonist murder...

Thanks for reading bros. Just hearing Yoda say "Chewbacca" out loud is jarring and weird. A lot of his dialogue really feels wrong, because his speech pattern in the originals was built with old wise mysticism in mind; it's weird as hell when the same pattern is used for issuing military c...

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy: A Look Back

Three movies, one post. Not my usual format.

Sometimes I remember the past, hello, have a nice Christmas.



Fallout 4

Here's a long piece I wrote about the online stuff in Metal Gear: Silence Speaks Volumes: Metal Gear Solid V's Invasion System and Elimination of Game/Story Dissonance A friend of mine also wrote a really good, super-spoiler heavy Metal Gear analysis: Words That Kill: Language and Legacy in Metal Ge...

Rock Band 4

Metal Gear Solid 5 is a good but incomplete game that's still the best game of the year. Rock Band 4 is a good but incomplete game that's the year's biggest let down.

Thanks for reading! Something that really doesn't make sense to me is that Ground Zeroes includes a simple, well written summary of Big Boss's story up to that point, so you don't really even need to play 3 or Peace Walker. They could have literally copy and pasted it into an optional text file in P...