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Destiny 2: Why the Community is Upset
There’s been a lot of hoopla and outrage surrounding Destiny 2 post E3. The focus has particularly been on the decision making by Bungie, the developer of Destiny and Destiny 2, regarding this game. (Note, I’m not going to discuss why some people are calling the game “Destiny 1.5”)
By Brandon Daniel9 years ago in Unbalanced
‘Baby Driver’ Is a Love Letter to Sound in Cinema
*SPOILERS FOLLOW* From the opening moments of Baby Driver, the audience can hear an audible ringing sound. The same sound that Baby, the film’s titular character, hears all the time because of an accident he was in as a child, giving him tinnitus. This ringing sound sets up a first-person perspective that the audience is not accustomed to hearing, hearing being the operative word. Throughout the film, what Baby hears, the audience also hears.
By Brandon Daniel9 years ago in Unbalanced
GAME OF THRONES IS BACK
*SPOILERS FOLLOW* Game of Thrones premiered with a fantastic episode, which set the stage for a truly spectacular season. In the first few minutes, before the epic intro scene, we see Arya Stark, posing as Walder Frey, killing ALL OF THE FREYS. SHE JUST DID THAT.
By Brandon Daniel9 years ago in Unbalanced
Game of Thrones: Stormborn Review
*SPOILERS AHEAD* Looks like Game Of Thrones is setting up all the pieces again — HOLY CRAP, WHAT JUST HAPPENED? Seriously, what?! I expected a Battle of the Greyjoy’s at some point, but not so early in the season. And what a gruesome, terrific battle it was. Yara and Theon got their butts handed to them by their uncle Euron, who very easily destroyed their entire fleet? Maybe? It looks like the Iron Fleet has been completely eradicated, which puts a huge dent in Daenerys’ plan to win the Iron Throne.
By Brandon Daniel9 years ago in Unbalanced
Destiny 2 Beta Impressions: They Really Meant a World Without Light
Earlier this week, the closed beta for Destiny 2 launched. In a frenzy, I tried repeatedly to get in when the server went live. I kept getting kicked out over and over again. Finally, after a half hour of trying, I got in. And what I saw was glorious.
By Brandon Daniel9 years ago in Unbalanced
‘Game Of Thrones’ ‘The Queen’s Justice’ Review
‘The Queen’s Justice’ was jam-packed with events that will cause monumental impact on the show going forward. Let’s start with the end first. Jamie, using a trick a used from dearly departed Robb Stark, diverted the grunt of his army to Highgarden and attack the Tyrells. It’s a brilliant, tactical move that shows both Jamie and Cersei’s wit.
By Brandon Daniel9 years ago in Unbalanced
Why I Am Excited For Destiny 2
The year was 2015. After a year of existence, Destiny had left many people, myself included, frustrated and disappointed. A paltry debut known as vanilla, combined with two mediocre DLCs, had most people feeling as if Destiny was over with. A good experiment that had faltered.
By Brandon Daniel9 years ago in Unbalanced
An Expert Weighs in on Trump's Pardon
Recently inflatable leather handbag Donald Trump used his presidential pardon to save the erstwhile sheriff of Maricopa county in Arizona. Joe Arpaio (known to Trump's denizens as "Sheriff Joe" like some sort of animated lawman) is a phenomenal sheriff – If a phenomenal sheriff brutalizes prison inmates, antagonizes them proudly, engages in abuse and keeps them in horrifying conditions in an effort to reduce their sense of humanity. Ol' gunslinging Sheriff Joe even bragged about creating a concentration camp. Yet it wasn't Arpaio's fetish for medieval approach to incarceration which placed him in need of a pardon. Instead it was Joe's tendency to be an teensy bit racist.
By Jared Wheeler9 years ago in Unbalanced
