HobbyScope
Movies, Games, and Whatever Else Comes to Mind
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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.
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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…
