I Am Gerard Thomas - Writing About Games, Movies, and general Geeky stuff

DIARY of a SPACE PERSON.

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Late to the Gundam party

Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ll admit it. I am properly late to the whole Gundam thing…

My top 10 favourite aircraft

Reading Time: 6 minutes I have always been interested in the design of aircraft, being of the opinion they represent the ultimate expression of the maxim – form follows function.

Facebook, yea, nah!

Reading Time: 4 minutes I used to think, like everyone else on the planet, that if I had something going on, then I had to use Facebook to reach my ‘tribe’, as Jeff Goins likes to term it.

Reading Time: 5 minutes In the west it’s near impossible to pick up a newspaper or turn on the boob tube and not see some sort of military action. Visual reference to the military has become part of everyday life, desert tan, woodland cammo.

Welcome back analogue, I’ve missed you

Reading Time: 3 minutes It was one of those strange waterfall of events, one of those where one decision leads to another and another and before you know it, you are somewhere else entirely.

Modern building, ancient ideas

Reading Time: 2 minutes The idea of being able to construct small structures from heavier and more ‘environmentally’ efficient materials, all from a catalogue of blocks that could be easily handled onsite by a few people is an idea well worth investigating. Imagine how the urban landscape would change visually…

GKR – Giant Killer Robots

Reading Time: 6 minutes Game flow is nice and simple, broken into 5 phases with the last one, ‘tagging’, being the crux of the game. The first player to tag a building with four ‘holotags’ gets to demolish it – demolish four, and you win. Simple, eh?

Valerian

Reading Time: 4 minutes The problem about writing a review, or opinion, about Valerian is where to even start? I write this after only having watched it once and thinking about it still leaves me swimming in its vast ocean.

Appleseed Alpha

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hands down, ‘Alpha’ is the best interpretation of the original Manga to date.

Appleseed Ex Machina

Reading Time: 3 minutes While it definitely has it’s moments of ‘goodness’, Ex Machina is more a film for true Anime geeks…

Dante's Principle - Gerard Thomas Illustration

Einstein-Rosen bridges

Reading Time: < 1 minute We accept, somehow, that at the flip of a switch and push of a lever, Han Solo can push the Millenium Falcon into hyperspace.

Rez, a true modern classic

Reading Time: 5 minutes If you never have, try and check Rez out. You might not click with it right away but when you do, and you will, it will all make sense.

Warhammer 40,000 – Lost Patrol

Reading Time: 6 minutes Don’t let that fool you though, this is an incredibly difficult game to win (where the Space Marines are the ones that win or loose), and very quickly the Space Marines player will start experimenting with ways to actually survive more than 10 minutes!

I AM GERARD THOMAS.