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…
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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.
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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.
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The Military Aesthetic
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.
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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?
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Appleseed Alpha
Reading Time: 4 minutes Hands down, ‘Alpha’ is the best interpretation of the original Manga to date.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Aeon Flux: a cult classic
Reading Time: 6 minutes “I always felt like there was a complete disconnect between things that were fun and entertaining to watch and things that were more thoughtful and philosophical.” Peter Chung
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Battletech redux – almost
Reading Time: 5 minutes Big walking tanks whomping the bejeezus out of one another. That’s the basic premise of Battletech, a game with its roots dating back to the mid 80’s.
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Kill cubed
Reading Time: 6 minutes Kill cubed – From Japanese short story to Tom Cruise
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