HobbyScope
Movies, Games, and Whatever Else Comes to Mind
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Saturday Morning Cinema: In the Heat of the Night
There is cultural significance to a movie like this, because it holds up a mirror and lets us all know there is endless opportunity to be better.
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Word Tales: Urbane
Merriam-Webster defines urbane as “notably polite or polished in manner”. I’ve also seen the words “suave” and “sophisticated” used as defining benchmarks. That really makes “urbane” a life goal, doesn’t it?
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Word Tales: Prestidigitation
Here’s a fun word for you: prestidigitation. According to the vocabulary-building resource of Merriam-Webster, prestidigitation means “sleight of hand”, which conjures specific examples in the mind.
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Movies That Surprised – Kingsman: The Secret Service
There are times when you suspect a movie could be fun, but you start watching without expectation. Yet, at the end, you walk away having thoroughly enjoyed yourself for the previous two hours after going through an experience whose imagery resonates after the screen goes dark.
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Word Tales: Hogmanay
New Year’s Eve in the United States is a time revered for ending a year with bad decisions (usually too much drinking that leads to other poor choices) and then flipping over a page to start the new year with a clean slate. At the end of 2020, I was exposed to the word “Hogmanay”,…
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Mario Party is an A-hole (explicit)
Games are supposed to be fun, whether it is in card, board, or video format. They bring people together in providing a pleasant combination of escape and competition. Sometimes, however, a game will come along draped in the deceit of promising a good time while simultaneously preparing to bring forth great agony with the pain…
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Remember, Remember the Third of November
With the election today, this is very much a political post not intended to stir fervor and challenge opinions. It is intended simply as documentation of my condensed thoughts during a historical time.
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Spooky Watch: Night of the Demons
How’s your night going? Mine, because I watched this movie, was weird.
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Spooky Watch: 28 Days Later
Why in the world would I watch a movie about a highly contagious and deadly virus in a year when a highly contagious and deadly virus is rampaging throughout the world? Because it is October and now is the time to bask in the surreal, the scary, and that which causes a degree of unease.…
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Backlog BBQ: The Last of Us
If ever a game required a palette cleanser to recover mentally and physically from the experience of play, The Last of Us is that game.
