It’s been a while. I generally avoid shooters these days. Age has caught up, my reflexes aren’t what they used to be, and the disconnect between head-snapping turns and reality often left me queasy after trying Borderlands 2 for a while. So. I ran into this review of Doom 4 by the inestimable Razorfist. And immediately shilled out the twenty it currently runs. It. Is. Glorious. But first…. please feast on this headline… It’s taken me two years to finally face the new Doom [https://archive.…
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Ben Cheah, author of the fantastic No Gods Only Daimons [https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Only-Daimons-Covenant-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B071HHFP3M] , reviews Marc MacYoung’s series on writing about fighting [https://steemit.com/books/@cheah/series-review-writing-violence-by-marc-macyoung] . I believe I’ve mentioned the sitenononsenseselfdefense.com [http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/] before. It’s dated, marginally organized, but utterly invaluable in its insights. > Writing Violence 1: Getting Shoti…
Seven years ago I bought this double edged safety razor – a Parker 96R [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002IFFSOS/] that opened like butterfly wings. That razor ($28), a $25 brush, $150 in shaving creams (I’ve tried a number of different ones) and $70 in blades and I still have 60 – odd Derby-brand double-edge blades ready to use. $250 in shaving supplies has lasted me for over 7 years. Compare that to the cost of the typical Gillette Mach3 package of 8 blades. Granted, I shave mostly every…
Return of Kings has an interesting article on what they call the “hedonic treadmill.” titled “Are You On A Treadmill Of Materialism That Goes Nowhere [http://www.returnofkings.com/120079/are-you-on-a-treadmill-of-materialism-that-goes-nowhere] ?” > Prepare yourself because it is only going to get worse. The giant marketing machine that is the modern media will become even more pervasive and insidious as technology continues to evolve. There will be nowhere to go and nowhere to hide. If you live…
Over at Seagull Rising [https://seagullrising.blogspot.com/2017/04/cora-lyin.html] Jon Mollison discusses Cora Buhlert and her lack of awareness of what she refers to. Cora B in bold…. > > *Does anybody else find the idea of a rabid puppy taking inspiration from Jonathan Livingston Seagull of all things as funny as I do? Of course she thinks it’s funny. She doesn’t know what you’re talking about. Jonathan Livingston Seagull is the story of a seagull whose unwillingness to conform to the dem…