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I Don’t Like Mech Games but I Loved Armored Core 6

As someone who never liked mech games, I was very tentative heading into Armored Core. I loved the other From Soft games but what I loved about those games (the detailed open-ish worlds and the dark fantasy setting) was definitely not going to be present in this one. The game dropped and I downloaded it and sortied into my first mission, not knowing what to expect.

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Watched “Asteroid City” and Now I’m (More) Depressed

When I finished Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City I felt a profound sense of sadness I hadn’t felt in a longish time. There was something so vibrant, so idyllic in the 50s desert wasteland that crushed the inside of my brain into a tin can and made me wish I was much older but also much younger.

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Travis Scott’s "Utopia” is Arena-Rock for the Modern Age

Few artists, for reasons both good and bad, have captured the national consciousness of America and perhaps the entire world like Travis Scott. He is a genius, a devil and a hack, a wolf dressed in sheep’s clothing eating money out of a McDonald’s bag.

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28 Years Later, Heat Still Pulls No Punches

Sometimes life lets you down easy, other times it punches you in the face. After a while, you’ve been punched so much and so often the world looks like a boxing match and that boxing match becomes a chess game.

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1975's Night Moves Is A Lot of Fun But It’s No Picnic

Night Moves is a 70s private detective movie (which is kind of a 70s genre) and it’s actually quite good and it’s really quite fun but I tell you what pal- it’s no picnic. The 70s were fun, sure, we all accepted that myth.

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New Godzilla Channel on Pluto Is Based

There are few things I love in life and one of them is Godzilla. It is hard to imagine a world in which I do not enjoy the antics of the King of Monsters and his hyper destructive cohorts.

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Otis Rush Is Lightning In A Full Bottle

From the smoke filled rooms and back alley windows, 50 years ago, you could probably hear Otis Rush playing. Some records are cut a little deeper. Otis Rush’s The Classic Cobra Recordings: 1956-58 is one of those.

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Hungry Shark Is A Game For The Killer In All of Us

Hungry Shark caters to the psychos of society, the people who dream of emerging from the depths and murking some tourists in the most psychologically and financially destructive ways possible. Underneath the fun and chaotic aquatic slaughter is surely the story of a beach town brought to its knees by the shark inflicted violence.

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