This was a Moment of Zen from late January, so you’ll have to trust that when I shared it with work, it was much more timely. Disney really played us for fools with the new Boba Fett… Photo: Lucasfilm / Disney Sure, Temuera Morrison looks like a hardened...
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Everybody and their mom knows that Pac-Man was supposed to be called Puckman, and not because he looks like a hockey punk, but because it comes from the Japanese phrase “Paku-Paku” which means to flap one’s mouth open and closed. Of course, they...
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Every Friday, when the clock hits 5:30 and signals the end of the work week for me and my associates, I wish everybody a good weekend and provide a Moment of Zen. It started out as just a funny picture or some cool photography I found online, and slowly evolved into...
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When God of Thunder/Marvel Superhero played by Chris Hemsworth created Sweden, he laid the groundwork for a popular furniture store and place to get lost in for days. IKEA was founded in Sweden in 1943 (right in the middle of World War II). It’s name is an...
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We all like a little camp, right? Right? I grew up on Mystery Science Theater 3000. If you aren’t in the know, it’s a show where a man and a couple of plastic robot puppets watch low-budget science-fiction-adjacent films and riff on them. If this...
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At the start of the pandemic, to prevent myself from worrying about the slow crumble of the world, I made a pact that I would focus on getting through my backlog of games. Okay, first of all, when I say “backlog,” I don’t just mean games I...
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Every Friday at the end of the day, I treat my coworkers with a ‘moment of zen.’ Analogous to Jon Stewart’s sign-off on the Daily Show, what started as just sharing a cool space photo or a funny animal picture turned into me doing what I do best...
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Yesterday was my birthday. That means a lot of the games I loved as a kid that were released in November are celebrating 20 to 30 year anniversaries. It’s hard to think about, but I’ll wax nostalgic regardless. I spoke pretty highly of 1994’s Donkey...
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Often described as the definitive pinnacle of Super Mario 2D platforming, Super Mario Bros. 3 is another one of those games that needs no review. One of the highest-grossing non-bundled video games of all time, with 17 million copies sold, Super Mario Bros. 3 will...
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Nintendo SIXTY-FOOOOOUUURRRR! I was there, and I was hyped. Games were going to be in three dimensions! Controls were going to be analog! There was going to be sixty-four bits! And most importantly, Mario was back and bigger than ever. “Mario runs around like a...
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