Category: Take Up a Cause

If You Only Watch One Video Today… #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain

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Super Tuesday is tomorrow. A time in which a hefty chunk of the states in the USA will vote for their favorite Republican or Democrat candidate for president in state level primary elections. This is likely the end of the road for most of the candidates involved, and will offer a clear path to being the nominee for the most winning Republican and Democrat candidate. This is our last opportunity to draw a line in the sand and stop somebody who is undeserving and/or not qualified to hold the highest…

Goals for 2016 #realistic & #pipedreams

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Yesterday, I wrote at length about a few of my favorite things about 2015, but nostalgia is so yesterday, so we’ll be moving steadily into the present today. It is 2016, and as such I have concocted a bunch of goals and dreams that I would like to achieve within the next 12 months. Some of these will be reasonable, and others are high apple pie in the sky goals, but if we don’t push ourselves to the limits, how will we ever discover what our true limits are? So…

Making A Case for a Director’s Cut for the 1998 Avengers Film #Avengers #DirectorsCut #OpenLetter

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Making A Case for a Director’s Cut for the 1998 Avengers Film In the dying end of the summer box office rush in 1998, Warner Brothers quietly released a re-imagined feature film version of the cult classic UK spy TV series The Avengers (not based on the Marvel comics superhero series). Directed by Jeremiah Chechik (Benny & Joon, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and countless episodes of great TV shows such as Chuck and the Middleman) and produced by Jerry Weintraub (legendary producer of films such as Nashville, Diner, the Karate…

Women, Race and Sexuality in Video Games #Gamergate #Equality #Diversity

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As I finished the last chapter of the excellent episodic video game series: Life is Strange, it occurred to me that not nearly enough games portrayed the themes of individuality, choice, slice of life and sexuality with much maturity and/or gravitas. Certainly there are numerous high profile video games that attempt to tackle these themes, but mostly as an afterthought or even worse as merely a plot device for the villain to exploit at some point in the game. As a gamer that is now pushing 40 years of age, I…

Shenmue 3: or How Dreams Do Come True – #SaveShenmue

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Update 6/25/2015: a lot of information has come out recently in regards to the Kickstarter, how the funding works, and what role Sony is playing in the overall scheme of things. Check this link out for a word about all of this from the Shenmue series creator, Yu Suzuki: Update and clarity on Shenmue 3 Kickstarter  Also, be advised – we still need to get the word out through all of the various social media outlets to help gain further funding for Shenmue 3. The initial 2 million dollars raised…

#saveforever – the Effort by the Internet to Save the Freshman Televison Series: Forever

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It’s that time of year again, when the Grim Reaper gets paid overtime by the television networks to claim the souls of TV shows that have not made the ratings to justify being renewed. Freshly cut by the dealer of death is the freshman ABC drama, Forever. Forever is an American TV show, a drama with fantasy elements, produced by Warner Brothers TV and created by Matt Miller. The series follows the ongoing adventures of Dr. Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd), a medical examiner in New York City who has a…