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This week: The art of controller throwing. Kojima masturbates. The final panicked hours of Snake Eater.
As the mass video game market has increasingly become a blockbuster oriented industry, big budget game design has slowed to a crawl, with gamers expectations of graphics and depth rising to previously unknown heights. At [...]

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This Week: Quimby the Mouse, collecting Chris Ware’s college comic strips found in Acme Novelty Library, issues #2 and #4.
Quimby the Mouse is by and large Chris Ware’s diary — or if you prefer to be more masculine and highbrow, his journal. It is nonsensical, often confusing, sometimes embarrassing, and, above [...]

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This week: A few hours further through Snake Eater, Jake speaks his mind on the gameplay of the first three installments of the series.
For a game that so regularly wrests control from the player, the Solid series;’ big appeal is, oddly enough, a sense of freedom. Certainly, the plot is [...]

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This week: Season 1 - What kind of man is Duncan MacLeod?
Imagine living with the constant stress in the back of your mind that you could be beheaded and die. The flipside… you get to remain young for all your days, and nothing else can kill you. Such is the bittersweet paradox of existence that [...]

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Episodes viewed: “A Taste of Armageddon,” “This Side of Paradise,” “The Devil in the Dark,” “Errand of Mercy,” “The Alternative Factor,” “The City on the Edge of Forever,” “Operation: Annihilate!”
It’s easy to forget that the USS Enterprise’s five-year mission is a tour of duty. The vessel is officially on a scientific [...]

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The golden age of Nickelodeon was a seminal period of development for 80s babies. If you are capable of reminiscing about the age before e-mail, then you probably remember the very first time you flipped to Channel 12 to see a blue-nosed manx cat showcasing his nose goblins to the world. It’s also likely that [...]

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This week: Can Hideo Kojima find redemption with Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater?
After the debacle that was Metal Gear Solid 2, I’ve been playing the third installment of the series with a knot in my stomach. The notion of another Metal Gear game fills me with equal parts nausea [...]

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I begin this entry of my travelogue with the realization that two things must be true about Chris Ware.

He loves the ladies.
The ladies don’t love him.

These observations are not meant to be condescending or funny – well okay, maybe just a little funny – but are meant to provide some ounce [...]

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Episodes viewed: “The Conscience of the King,” “Balance of Terror,” “Shore Leave,” “The Galileo Seven,” “The Squire of Gothos,” “Arena,” “Tomorrow Is Yesterday,” “Court Martial,” “The Return of the Archons,” “Space Seed.”
Star Trek portrays a future in which America has taken over space, albeit a very miniscule sliver of it. Though [...]

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This week: Things take a turn for the worst in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
By their nature, the great films of history are manipulative, selfish bastards. Leveraging expectations, they exploit their power over the viewer, tugging the mental puppet strings of their unsuspecting audience. And it’s what we [...]

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