I’m going to go on a bit of a computer journey, which I’m also going to be blogging about here – I’m going to try to start the process of transitioning from being a primary Windows user, to a primarily Linux one.
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When it comes to the Procedural genre of film, generally these works tend to put their focus on law enforcement – cops and robbers, literally. However, the cops the generally don’t cover are ones who deel with what are considered more “boring” crimes – white collar financial crimes. Smuggling is sexy, robbers are sexy, gangsters are sexy. Tax fraud is still sexy… except people stealing from workers by not properly paying taxes, people stealing from the community by not paying taxes to pay for the services the government provides that they use are still robbers. So, it’s up to a more financial cop to catch them – one like the protagonist of A Taxing Woman.
Read moreI talk about some recent discourse about the importance of the “canon” and why maybe it’s more important to recommend what you like instead of what’s historically important.
We’ve reached the end of Chapter 4.
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We are approaching the final hurrah for Sega’s consoles.
Read moreWe’re back for August of 1998, and a bunch of N64 games.
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This month, we’re covering the anime OVA that came out for the 10th anniversary of Macross, and was the first non-Robotech version of the Macross universe to reach the US, along with the Macross II tabletop RPG from Palladium Games. Before that, we get into the current situation ongoing with Visa & MasterCard blocking transactions for NSFW content due to pressure from a Far-Right-Wing Australian group.
Note: I’m trying a new recording platform with this episode, and I ran into some technical difficulties that carried over to my backup recording. Consequently, my audio is impacted, but not necessarily the audio from my guest and cohosts.
We’re approaching a big shift in the console market soon.
Read moreAs we go through this season of Formula 1, I talk about the anime series that got me into watching motorsport, rather than just playing racing video games – Overtake.
One of the things about having read Paperbacks From Hell is that Grady Hendrix does a really solid job of laying out that for all the ways that the horror genre can be progressive, it can also be tremendously conservative as well, drawing the root of the threat of the horror from societal prejudices. The same lies with the thriller and disaster genres – a place where The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) falls. When a screenwriter or author succumbs to the temptation to make bystanders and victims into archetypes as a shorthand, what archetypes are used matter.
Read moreWe’re approaching the end of the chapter, and the pace is picking up.
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