Recent content by Gene O

This is very welcome news!

As Tom Lehrer so succinctly put it, "When correctly viewed, Everything is lewd."

I wasn't a fan of Clerks because it included a brief discussion of Star Wars. I was a fan of that movie because when Clerks came out I was essentially Dante minus the girlfriend, hockey on the roof, and dead guy in the bathroom. I commiserated with Dante, laughed at his antics, and felt the...

When my eyesight fails me and my hands can no longer grip the controls, on that day I will be to old for video games. Until then, better make room for this old man on the couch 'cause I'm not leaving any time soon.

James Cameron didn't ruin a franchise. He created one. Alien wasn't a franchise, it was a movie. The seven years between Alien and Aliens saw the occasional mention of Alien in comic books but very little else. Aliens, on the other hand, inspired video games, comic titles, toys, and...

Mr. Sterling, you've got yourself a deal!

I always felt that if video games were not 'high' art according to Roger Ebert it's because video games achieved too much. The label 'art' could not contain them. The next time someone tells me 'video game stories are crap,' I'm using a variation of her reply. Maybe something like "Books...

This is why I don't worry about my refusal to buy anything with always on drm. AAA gaming may be collapsing (I honestly have no idea) but my options have never been better. I could spend years playing catch up with all of the games from this console generation I haven't gotten to yet. And, as...

"My father compounded with my mother under the dragon?s tail and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing." Edmund from King Lear

Here's five of the fifteen minutes of fame promised to me by Andy Warhol.

I'm happy for the new series. I'm even happier that Jim decided to defend my favorite Alien movie. Thank God for Jim.

If people learn that I play games and then want to call me a gamer I insist that they have to call me a reader, watcher, author, chef, singer, cyclist, musician, hiker, mathematician, stage hand, artist,and listener as well.

Here's my favorite theory: The Masons are a red herring. Their glory days are long past and they spend their time getting together relive their (long) past triumphs and hoping that The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks doesn't pay any serious attention to them because that's who's really...

Out here in Colorado we love us some publicity hungry gun nuts. Most recently there was the shooting at the Dark Knight premier. Don't forget Columbine in 1999. John Hinckley Jr., would be assassin of Ronald Reagan? Colorado. Wade Michael Page who recently killed 6 people in a Wisconsin...

Interesting tidbit: If knowledge = power and time = money then if you plug it into the equation the more you know the less you make.