Author: Kaile Hultner
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Thoughts on True Detective Night Country
“It’s always the same damn story with the same damn ending. So we told ourselves a different story, with a different ending.” Spoilers, naturally. So, I finished it. Like 3.2 million people, I watched the season finale of True Detective: Night Country. I’ve spent the last 36 hours hooting and hollering and I think I…
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Twisters looks bad, and I’m upset
It’s the Super Bowl, and that means we’re being inundated by all sorts of commercials and trailers for stuff we didn’t know we needed. One such trailer is the one that just dropped for Twisters, the sequel to the 1996 Jan De Bont-directed, Michael Crichton-written natural disaster movie starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Cary…
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Is True Detective Better as a Supernatural Story? Signs Point to No
Spoilers ahead. You know the drill. The first season of True Detective rocked the shit out of me. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson were incredible as two scumbags with badges on different sides of the shitpile trying to solve a fucked up murder in a place the rest of the world forgot. McConaughey’s Rust Cohle,…
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…And Now For The Rest of That Green Day Album (Saviors – Review)
Saviors is the Warning of the post-American Idiot era of GREEN DAY’s discography*.
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Review – The Pist “Is Risen” LP
Published by Ryvvolte Records, Havoc Records, Profane Existence, and Dismantled Records. Listen Here. To say this album was unexpected would be an understatement. The Pist was a hardcore punk band from Waterbury, CT from 1992 to 1996. Led by Al “Pist” Ouimet, The Pist put out a demo, a couple of singles and EPs, and…
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TONIGHT: No Escape From Book Club 2024’s First Meeting!
Since 2019 No Escape has been a site all about games and digital culture in “an age of conflict.” With said conflicts brewing around the world daily, we’re starting up a new book club to hopefully help make sense of it all. The theme of 2024’s book club is “games and conflict.” We’re going to…
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Put 2023 in the trash and threaten 2024 with a knife
We’re back. Pitches open, book club starts in a week. No Escape from 2024.
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Have An Unacceptably Long Post Analyzing Green Day’s New Singles That I Wrote Instead Of Doing Work
As I slowly “retvrn” to writing more seriously about the music I like in addition to writing about games and politics and so on, it occurs to me that so far I’ve really just scratched the surface of my tastes or even really examined why it is that I like what I do. I grew…
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On the Trolley Problem of Playing Destiny 2
The final season of Destiny 2, “Season of the Wish,” released today. As is usually the case with seasonal updates, Season of the Wish comes with new gameplay modes, new gear and weapons, a new seasonal artifact to level up, new challenges to cross off your list, and new narrative content to sink your teeth…