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Destiny 2 - (2017 game) image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6721356/
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Destiny/

Aliens come to ruin an already-ruined earth.. which also already has aliens.

Quite an excellent game.



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Stargate Universe - (2009 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286039/
https://mgm.com/television/stargate-universe

An experimental gate technique strands unlikely survivors on an ancient ship.

A fair show. That’s pretty much all I can say about it, really. It has some significant presentation of humans being human, which is rare and special.



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Cobra Kai - (2018 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7221388/
https://www.netflix.com/title/81002370
https://www.youtube.com/@cobrakai

A washed-up former Karate champion tries to clean up his life.

A direct sequel to The Karate Kid – (1984 movie)

Lost in Space - (2018 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5232792/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80104198

A family is lost in space.

It’s not bad, but the tone bothers me. It’s so tryhard “epic” that it’s strained.



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The bits and pieces thing makes no sense.
The bits and pieces thing makes no sense.

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.2k.com/en-US/game/the-bureau-xcom-declassified/

You are part of an elite squad who freeze time to move near cover and get shot in the head.

I guess they didn’t play their own game, because there are obvious flaws. This would have been more fun if they got rid of the whole moving around like an RPG. Like the old X-COM ga– oh wait, the old games are just better. Why was this game made?

  • Properly titled The Bureau: XCOM Declassified



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Kingdom - Classic - (2015 game) image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.kingdomthegame.com/

A fauldschool resource game that would have made for a fine free Flash game, but is instead for-pay.

Fair.

  • Properly titled Kingdom: Classic

    • aka Kingdom
  • Also Kingdom: New Lands



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Homefront - (2011 game) image

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
(https://web.archive.org/web/20120504005225/http://www.homefront-game.com/ |archived home page]])

The Koreans invade the United States, and you are a freedom fighter who hides behind invulnerable cover in an on-rails playable cutscene.

alt-F4 as soon as I was placed in a “home base” which forced me to RP-walk everywhere. Inexcusable.

Orphan Black - (2013 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234222/
https://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/orphan-black–1010578

An underclass punk, returning from a ten month flight from the country, happens upon a suicide that reveals that she is part of a larger picture.

The lead actor is particularly good, as is all the acting. The story is poor in a number of places, and it is particularly jarring to have literal-faggotry forced into it. I don’t mind there happening to be gay characters, but when they’re gay characters being gay because gayness yay gay gay as opposed to just being people who happen to be gay, it’s so obvious and so insulting as to taint the whole fucking show.

I’ll flag this as liked and lightly-recommended. It’s really not all that awful, but it rubs me the wrong way. It’s like girly science fiction drama-whatever.

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