HobbyScope
Movies, Games, and Whatever Else Comes to Mind
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Backlog BBQ: Marvel’s Spider-Man
Do you remember your first time? Were you nervous? Excited? Peter Parker was my first…first platinum trophy that is.
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Basement Isolation in the Age of COVID
COVID rules the world. I went into a group of people, and then I spent two weeks in my basement. It wasn’t bad, but it sure was surreal.
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Apple Watch: In Memoriam
This week, I said goodbye to a friend, my OG Apple watch, and now I grapple with what life looks like in a post-Apple Watch world.
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Quarantine Tales: The Mountain Man – Part 1
The world has changed. People have changed. These are the (fictional) tales that escaped.
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The Mosquito Situation
Filthy bloodsuckers, mosquitoes are the bane of my existence. Where the little monsters gave me a peaceful, undisturbed May, June, and most of July, they made up for their early shyness with a vicious assault over the last two weeks on any bared skin.
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The Vocal Volume Conundrum
Folks, we have a problem. My girlfriend says I am too loud when I play video games. I know, that is absolutely ridiculous. Let me break it down and show why she is unequivocally incorrect.
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Saturday Morning Cinema: Forrest Gump
I will embrace the cliché and open with the line, “Mama always said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.’” It is one of the truest, most applicable movie lines I have heard during my lifetime. This makes sense, then, that such a line comes from a…
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Saturday Morning Cinema: All the President’s Men
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put President Nixon back together again.
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Saturday Morning Cinema: Modern Times
Man creates machine. Man becomes machine. Machine takes over the world. Charlie Chaplin also made a really good movie about trying to make it in the world.
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Saturday Morning Cinema: The Wild Bunch
The “Wild West” of American history had to expire at some point. Territorial expansion and growth of government authority, coupled with advancing technology, rang the death knell for an era of lawlessness and frontierism. The Wild Bunch focuses on a point during that time where the United States was still establishing its southern and western…
