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Popcorn Pulse 20: Bad Hack

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Given the year and near proximity to the twentieth anniversary, we decided that the time would be ripe to tackle the cult classic, Hackers. Staring an Angelina Jolie who hadn’t yet decided that collecting children like Pokemon was to be her hobby and some guy who’s name we only remember because he has an IMDB entry, they play the titular Hackers.

Hollywood, demonstrating that it gets trends wrong at least as often as it gets them right, portrays the good guys, aka the “cool kids”, as rollerbladers. Meanwhile, the sole villain, an older and less hip ex-hacker, rides a skateboard. How hindsight always kicks us when we turn around. Continue reading “Popcorn Pulse 20: Bad Hack”

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VG Pulse 197: Terminal Watch

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This week on VG Pulse, we have a cupcake-fueled giggle-fest as we cover the week’s events! We start out with stories of go-karts, mini-golf, and movies, before transitioning onto the news, talking about stories of Comic Con, Game Stop’s absurd credit card, and the loss of Neversoft. We go over the forums, and finish up with Xahldera’s review of Terminal Velocity, and Millennium’s review of Watch Dogs! All this and more up next on VGP 197! -Aki Continue reading “VG Pulse 197: Terminal Watch”

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Manga Pulse 316: OMG

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As always, we’ve come around to manga reviews. By some serendipitous happenstance, Tim managed to review a request that was received to Weltall’s inbox a few days earlier. Sure, it might have been mentioned once or twice before but we can pretend that it was meant to be.

Tim tackles Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure by reading the first two volumes. It chronicles the appearance of Dio who attempts to usurp the Joestar family fortune from Jojo. This is, in fact, the plot of the story and not something we made up to mock it. We won’t spoil the plot but the foreigner turns out to be the bad guy and fights Jojo to what might not be his death. Continue reading “Manga Pulse 316: OMG”

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VG Pulse 196: Millennium's Gaming Misadventures

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This week on Video Game Pulse, we have a supervised show filled with mini-golf and movies. We start off sharing theories about potato salad before transcending onto the theorized doom of Twitch by Google and talks about the importance of pre-orders. After the news, we skip the forums and finish off with Millennium’s thoughts about the beta version of Destiny, amongst other things he has done over the last 2 weeks. All this and more up next on VGP 196! Continue reading “VG Pulse 196: Millennium's Gaming Misadventures”