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What if I just kind of whimpered a little?
Almost exactly four years ago, this is how I was feeling: Looking back from the other side of Trump's electoral defeat (probably!), I...
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Rob
- Mar 22, 2020
- 2 min
What hoarding really means
So. This dipshit. A lot of people (rightfully) dunked on this guy last week. He saw a health crisis forming and instead of thinking of a...
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Rob
- Mar 9, 2020
- 3 min
Don't make your video game a crossword puzzle
Why does it take me five lightsaber slashes to kill a space beetle?
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Rob
- Aug 18, 2019
- 4 min
Moving day
The shadow has been looming for months. But it’s just a few days away now, and there’s nothing in my power that can change it. I wouldn’t...
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Rob
- Apr 28, 2019
- 3 min
Avengers: Endgame thoughts
When I sat down to write this, it was going to be a review. But I hadn't gotten too far into it before I realized that it was something...
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Rob
- Jun 30, 2018
- 1 min
Put your brain in a computer
It's a trope we've heard so many times: upload your consciousness into a computer, and become immortal. Now, immortality has some obvious...
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Rob
- Dec 22, 2017
- 4 min
The world's worst books
I posted a couple of my thoughts about Ready Player One earlier; short version - I wasn't a fan. But there was a silver lining to having...
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Rob
- Nov 19, 2017
- 2 min
Review: Justice League
Justice League is not the heavy, turgid mess that its predecessor was. It is also not a good movie. But at least it's a different kind of...
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Rob
- Nov 5, 2017
- 2 min
Review: Thor: Ragnarok
Jurassic World made eleventy billion* dollars at the box office. It had dinosaurs eating people and a John Williams score. But I walked...
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Rob
- Oct 12, 2017
- 2 min
It's time to repeal the 2nd amendment
I am numb over the events that happened in Las Vegas last week. I am numb that I now seem to be able to take in stride that hundreds of...
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Rob
- Aug 17, 2017
- 3 min
The flaw in flawless fictional worlds
I recently finished reading Ready Player One. It had a couple of cool ideas but it felt like I was reading fan fiction, the tone was all...
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Rob
- Jul 27, 2017
- 3 min
Who needs civilization, anyway?
I was reading a review of some works by Paul Kingsworth, and it got me thinking about the idea of civilization. I haven't read any of his...
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Rob
- Jun 17, 2017
- 4 min
Review: The Mummy
If you have read any of my previous reviews, you know I am not a snob when it comes to movies. Especially if they are movies that have...
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Rob
- Jun 3, 2017
- 4 min
Unless
The problem with taking a kids' book and adapting it into a full-length motion picture is that there's not enough stuff in most kids's...
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Rob
- May 6, 2017
- 2 min
Review: Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
I can imagine the artists at computer graphics studios that do work on Hollywood movies get a lot of feedback on their work. "I need that...
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Rob
- Mar 30, 2017
- 3 min
Why Monopoly is a failure that we keep playing
I think it was back in college when I first came to realize that Monopoly was a terrible game. I had grown up playing it, of course, like...
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Rob
- Mar 12, 2017
- 2 min
Review: Kong: Skull Island: Excessive colon: edition
There's a moment early in Kong: Skull Island that involves a sandwich. If the moment I'm referring to makes you cackle with delight, you...
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Rob
- Feb 19, 2017
- 2 min
Antibodies
So, news flash: the USA is sick. Due to some interesting "quirks" in our electoral system, we've somehow managed to elect a narcissistic,...
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Rob
- Feb 6, 2017
- 1 min
New paperback edition of my book!
While you've been able to read my words on your Kindle or Kindle-comaptible device since September, you were out of luck if you preferred...
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Rob
- Jan 2, 2017
- 3 min
Findings and recommendations: Imperial Archive on Scarif
(The following is an excerpt from a study commissioned by the Imperial Archives and Records Management Division. Ironically, it was never...
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