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Doctor Who Season 12 review: Pissing on the embers.

WARNING SPOILERS So you might recall I put out a piece not long ago saying Doctor Who wasn't failing because it was woke but because it was an unfocused mess. Well I stick by that somewhat but I'd also like to extend the unfocused mess comment to seemingly even the woke elements of the show which can't seem to even keep consistent but more on that later. I titled this review "Pissing on the embers" because that's what the show feels lie at this point. With Spyfall part 1 and 2 being seemingly sparks of hope for the series which a number of episodes in Series 12 have done their best to piss all over and put out. After Spyfall the best Doctor Who managed this series was I'd argue mediocrity. It managed what should be the base level of how good Doctor Who should be and other series managed to be with " Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror ", " Fugitive of the Judoon " and " The Haunting of Villa Diodati " being epi

Aerannis | review: A game ResetERA would hate

Disclosure / Baggage check: While everything will have a degree of subjectivity to it I do try to separate my person opinions on subject matter from my view on the quality of a game. However in this case it feel the need to say due to my person opinions and position on the seeming themes, tones and subject matter of the game this may have caused an increased level of potential bias when judging this game. Price: £0.79 / $0.99 on Steam Reviewed on: Laptop 1 Review bit: Aerannis is a stealth action platformer set in a futuristic cyberpunk world which sees you take on the role of Ceyda an assassin for hire in the land of Plovdiv. Plovdiv is a province where there are no men allowed under the belief it has lead to the developments and relative safety and comfort most residents enjoy. On a simple mission to recover stolen government power suits Ceyda is told that Plovdiv's government are deliberately creating false enemies to make the public feel they and their big b

BBC's The War of the Worlds - Should you watch?

All Images from IMDB Spoiler Warning: This review will contain spoilers for basically every version of War of the Worlds ever and major spoilers for the BBC version both written and visual spoilers. So I decided to change the name from Why you should watch to Should You Watch because that cynically brings in people looking for an answer to the question and it also allows me to look at good and bad thing under the same umbrella. The fact I'm bringing this change in now might be a bit of a revealing about my feelings on this show, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. This is going to be a long blog because I feel it needs to be to do this justice. However it can handily be summarised for those who don't want to read all the details by a single comment made by my mother (who is a fan of Sci-Fi) "In this version it wasn't bacteria that killed the Martians, but sheer embarrassment at having to be part of this abomination." - my mother Plot

Death's Life - review: The best Final Destination game never made

Death's Life can best be described as a hidden object puzzle game combined with Final Destination, yes the film series. It's short but very much unique in its style and fairy unique in terms being it's own genre. Cost: £1.99 / $2.99 on Steam Reviewed On: Laptop 1 Review: Death's Life is evidence that as much as the industry may seem to have peaked there will always be indie developers pushing the envelope. This does feel like a new game genre with a definitely unique grimey art style with it. Death's Life is a mix of hidden object game and puzzle game that challenges players to create a Rube Goldberg machine of death to kill off various familiar looking characters whose time is up and you as an apprentice grim reaper must make it look like a freak accident. You are essentially playing a puzzle game version of Final Destination really. Levels tart with you trying to locate the objects required to set up the Rube Goldberg esc machine with

The Last Witch Hunter - Second Chance Cinema

Welcome to Second Chance Cinema where I talk about films considered bad or films I think were lost to time or buried that may not be the best but I think really do deserve a second look from people. Recently while watching through some of the film "Backlog" as such I ended up watching a film that I'm actually pretty shocked just has never developed any kind of cult following over the years since its release. The Last Witch Hunter is another film in the attempt to make Vin Diesel into a big iconic action star before studios basically gave up on that and tried to make him more of an ensemble cast franchise. In terms of US box office take the film with a $90 Million budget only made $27 Million in the USA and $146 Million world-wide. Basically it's a flop but it being a flop really does shock me. The Last Witch Hunter is a solid action movie and one of the times I can say Vin Diesel isn't the worst or least convincing actor in it. That dubious honour fal

Changes: Field of view

So IGN's Tyler Robertson put out a piece on about fan influenced movies recently and how it's not looking good. So this seems like as much of a good jumping off point as any to talk about the idea of changes in a piece of media or franchise and the issue that brings. Did you know there has been fan feedback in films for years and films are shaped by such feedback? One of the earliest examples is the rumoured reaction to Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles where studio executives saw it and didn't laugh once during the famous beans scene. However Mel Brooks and his team convinced the executives to do some test screenings and at the moment of the beans scene had said executives look into the theatre to hear roaring laughter from the audience and so the scene got to stay. This is an example of the audience helping keep a directors creative vision intact. Hell while IGN argues the #Snydercut is the audience trying to influence change it could just be that they actual

The Algorithm said so

So a while ago and now buried under tons of articles about Fortnite streamers was a piece of information put out by I think it was an indie developer and I have tried to find that info but the Google results pages are full of articles about top Fortnite streamers. So credit to the person who inspired this and sorry I can't link to it because of the entire problem you helped highlight. What the information did do was point out an issue I've seen growing in the industry for a while and I've touched on it before in other blogs. Also the likes of Jim Sterling have touched on it . The problem being as far as I'm aware I'm the first one to pull all these pieces together and realise that rather than just a lot of proverbial single tentacle creatures it's all one giant massive thing. You see the internet is broken at present. The way the internet functions and works at present and the systems it uses are broken. However as technology has advanced aspects of t

[No Spoilers] The Last of Us Part II should be judged | The Sopa Box

Writers Note: The SOPA Box is deliberately designed as a blog series with little to no nuance. It was created in response long ago to a person who told me I should try to see things from the companies point of view and stop bashing them so much. At the time, in my opinion, I wasn't being unfair to companies I just wasn't making apologies or pushing their perspective so I decided to start writing The Sopa Box to show said person what a lack of nuanced really looks like. Also because it's somewhat funny to write these deliberately taking my own views to a more extreme position and with the additional idea of "Get Angry" as an additional party of the philosophy behind this blog series. Also the Judge Dredd outfit in the header image isn't normally going to be there I just felt it funny and appropriate for this blog. Time to get angry So informational on The Last of Us Part II has leaked online because some-one hacked into Naughty Dog's servers

Alex Rider | Should you Watch? Well at least it's not Stormbreaker

For those who don't know, like I didn't years ago, Alex Rider is a series of young adult spy novels akin in tone and style to pre Daniel Craig James Bond films (so evil villains with lair like locations and colourful henchmen and women) following Alex Rider as he ends up sucked into the world of espionage following the death of his uncle who was also, unknown to Alex, a spy. One of the main problems with the Series is with Stormbreaker having been made into a film previously the producers decided to adapt the second book in the series Point Blanc . The main problem being the series has to try and grapple with putting in the introduction of Alex to the world of espionage at the same time as trying to tell the story from the book. What this unfortunately comes down to is the 8 episode season 1 spending basically the first 2 episode introducing Alex to the world of espionage and only really starting the actual A plot of the series in Episode 3. Alex infact doesn't reach Poi

The proxy war on pre-owned | The Sopa Box

So while the fascist Jim Sterling was off ignoring actual women who have talked about how Abby isn't realistic . Spending 23 minutes of his time on about how it totally shouldn't matter that Abby isn't realistic and people should stop criticising her while getting upset multiple times because another video game didn't fit the claims about history he'd heard from a Tumblr user. The same Jim Sterling who previously was seemingly upset about Quiet . While he was off doing that I the champion of the people actually was on the trail of an actual new scummy little bit of trickery the video game industry is trying to sneak past you. So pre-owned games sales. The place for people to save some money or for people who can't always afford a full priced release because they may be students or on very low wages or be dealing with other things like expensive medical bills. The AAA industry with its tax avoiding multinationals and multimillionaire CEOs really don't

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