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Dungeons and Dragons and Documentaries
As someone who plays Dungeons & Dragons on a fairly regular basis, I have a lot of love for all the work that Gary Gygax put into making the structure of D&D work. I even have a special place in … Continue reading
Beer and Board Games: Drunk Clue
It seems like Clue would be a fairly easy game to play drunk, since you always have a hand of cards and a checklist of suspects to help you out. Thankfully, the Blame Society crew have found a way to … Continue reading
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Come and get me.
The more I reflect on it, the more I realize that Borderlands was one of my favourite games of the past five years, if not the past decade! Now the sequel is creeping closer to release, and I find myself … Continue reading
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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – August 20
James Marsters began his acting career on that stage in productions of plays such as The Tempest and Antigone. In the early 90s, Marsters moved into television acting with appearances on Medicine Ball, Maloney, and Northern Exposure. >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqEd0afXei4 In 1998, … Continue reading
Your mind is the scene of the crime
If there was ever a good reason to steal the tagline to Christopher Nolan’s mind heist movie Inception, it would be to describe this wicked new video game from Capcom called Remember Me. Remember Me is a stealth game wherein … Continue reading
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Lego The Lord of the Rings is adorable and I must have it.
If you read TBR with any regularity, you know that I’m a huge fan of the Lego video game adaptations of popular movies. Somehow, these games not only work, but they succeed with flying colours when they seem like the … Continue reading
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Celebrity Birthday of the Day – August 16
I hesitate to label Andy Milder as a character actor, but writing his bio, I definitely said “Oh THAT guy!” when I realized who he was. Milder has been acting in film and television since 1991, when he played a … Continue reading
Celebrity Birthday of the Day – August 15
I’ll admit to having a strange fascination with celebrities who start their onscreen careers primed to be stars, but who then sink into obscurity. Natasha Henstridge is one such celebrity. Having started her career as a model at the age … Continue reading
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This is why I love the internet
Lost on their vacation, Mike and his family have wandered the desert trying to find a place to stay, only to wind up in the haunted Valley Lodge. Maintained by Torgo, an unusual man/satyr who “takes care of the place … Continue reading
Embrace the Remix
Kirby Ferguson, creator of the awesome webseries Everything is a Remix, gave a TED talk recently…and it’s about damn time! I love Kirby’s ideas about how everything, literally everything, created by humans is influenced by the creations of others. Everything … Continue reading
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