Geekmas 2018: Okay, maybe a little too happy.

To be honest, at $59.99 USD (plus shipping) it's a bit more money than I generally expect that people will spend on my seasonal gift, but at least it's not as expensive as the rifle version...and, honestly, she looks so HAPPY.

- Sid

"My god, it's full of stars..."

I took a picture of Jaq the Cat by the light of my iMac screen on Sunday morning, and something about the way it lit up his furry little face reminded me of David Bowman's enigmatic final words from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Coincidentally, Canadian actor Douglas Rain, who so perfectly provided the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in both 2001 and its undervalued sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, passed away on Remembrance Day this past weekend at the age of 90.  It must be interesting for an actor to be best known for a role in which his character doesn't even have a face, let alone having his own face be seen.

- Sid

lower case titling can be a thing if you want.

And now, a quick op ed piece from Chris: friend, old school World of Warcraft participant, zombie critic, and apparent fan of lower case titling:

the zombie apocalypse is making progress on all fronts

It has come to my attention that zombies are making inroads into World War One and Two across different media:

1. Video games:
https://www.cultofmac.com/94407/save-world-war-i-from-zombies-and-cthulhu-with-the-wasted-land-on-ios/

Pretty much everything goes in video games and this is better than any GTA version in terms of social message. This might be cool.

2. Board Games:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/246960/axis-allies-zombies

 

I remember playing the original version in high school so this is a bit of sacrilege. Granted Axis and Allies was a broad brush stroke game with dice being the main driver rather than strategy but still...

3. Movies:  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlord_(2018_film)

I think this is especially poor taste for this zombie version of D-Day coming out so close to Remembrance Day. Imagine some poor nonagenarian going to see this not really reading the fine print...*

Something must be done about this zombie plague!

In other news, Blizzard™ killed Diablo by stopping development on the PC and only continuing it on smart phones. The auditorium at Blizzcon was underwhelmed to say the least....

- Chris

* This is quite a valid point, you'd never know if you just went by the title - Operation Overlord was the Allied code name for the plan to retake France during World War II.

 - Sid