Thoughts and Fiction
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Fallout Season 2 Episode 5 Review
Spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Fantastic is the term that best describes the most recent episode of Fallout. It was a definite step-up over the previous instalments of season 2. And they were pretty good already. I did notice that this episode was more focused than others. If I’ve had one complaint this season, it’s…
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Why go to Space? Narrative Reasons for Humanity Settling in the Solar System
In a previous article, about the settlement of the Asteroid Belt, I briefly mentioned that why humanity moves to the Belt will be a big question. An asteroid is a very inhospitable place to live. In fact, all of the presently un-terraformed planets, moons and worlds are. People might enjoy visiting them, but I can’t…
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Fallout Season 2 So Far (Episodes 1-4): Thoughts and Predictions.
Spoilers for Fallout Season 2 We’re four episodes into Fallout season two, and I’ve got to say, I’m enjoying it a lot so far. If I have one criticism, it feels a little crowded at times. Several different plot threads are competing for screen time. And I think it’s confusing the pacing. They now have…
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Humanity in the Asteroid Belt: An Awesome Sci-Fi Setting
It’s been a while since I’ve written any sci-fi stuff, so let’s talk about the Asteroid Belt! I love the idea of a fully inhabited Solar System. It’s an awesome narrative setting: a sci-fi frontier with, relatively, grounded technology and limitations. There’s less of a fantastical blurring between magic and science, which you get with…
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2026
Hi all, hope ya had a good holiday! I’m chiefly writing this update to say I’m back and will shortly resume posting articles. I do have a lot of plans for this website in 2026. For one thing, I’m hoping to write and upload a lot more than last year. I’m going to aim for…
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Update: Christmas Break
Hi all. Between this blog and some other writing commitments I have, it’s been a while since I’ve taken a break. So I’ve decided to take a couple of weeks off over Christmas. But I do love doing this blog, and I’ll be back in the new year. See y’all then. -Dexter
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How to Remake Attack of the Clones Part 14. Conclusion
I grew up watching the Star Wars prequel trilogy and love them to no end. But they are flawed films, so, like others before me, I’ve been working on my own fix. I’ve also become a little obsessed with creating a ‘no-spoiler’ version of the prequels. One that could be watched before the original trilogy…
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How to Remake Attack of the Clones Part 13
I grew up watching the Star Wars prequel trilogy and love them to no end. But they are flawed films, so, like others before me, I’ve been working on my own fix. I’ve also become a little obsessed with creating a ‘no-spoiler’ version of the prequels. One that could be watched before the original trilogy…
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Zelda Theory. How Did Zonai Civilisation Fall?
Age of Imprisonment and the History of the Zonai. Spoilers for Age of Imprisonment Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment was released a couple of weeks ago, and it introduced a ton of new lore. Not just Zonai lore either, but Zelda lore in general. It’s also canon, which is cool. The previous Hyrule Warriors game,…
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How to remake Attack of the Clones Part 12
I grew up watching the Star Wars prequel trilogy and love them to no end. But they are flawed films, so, like others before me, I’ve been working on my own fix. I’ve also become a little obsessed with creating a ‘no-spoiler’ version of the prequels. One that could be watched before the original trilogy…
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Doctor Who in Colour
It should have been called Doctor Who Regenerated In the last couple of years, the BBC has begun colourising Classic Doctor Who serials from the 1960s and recutting them into short movies. They’ve done two so far. ‘The Daleks in Colour,’ released in 2023, colourised and recut William Hartnell’s second story, whilst ‘The War Games…
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Will there ever be a new F-Zero game?
After 20+ years, a new F-Zero is long overdue. Nintendo’s last F-Zero game, F-Zero GX, was released in 2003. Since then, the series has only had mini games and references: F-Zero 99, a multiplayer reworking of the original game, is available as part of Switch Online, there are some F-Zero themed tracks in Mario Kart…
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Update: Website Navigation
Hi all. I don’t have a new article to post today (although I do have stuff in the pipeline). Instead, I’ve been working on making the website slightly easier to navigate. I’ve created a bunch of megathreads, available at the top of the website, that group articles together. Slowly but surely this website is becoming…
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Star Wars Rewritten. A No-Spoiler Version of Episode 2. Part 11
How to Create a No-Spoiler Version of Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones. Part 11 I grew up watching the Star Wars prequel trilogy and love them to no end, but they are flawed films and, like others before me, I’ve been working on my own fix. I’ve also become a little obsessed…
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Star Wars Rewritten. A No-Spoiler Version of Episode 2. Part 10
How to Create a No-Spoiler Version of Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones. Part 10 I grew up watching the Star Wars prequel trilogy and love them to no end, but they are flawed films and, like others before me, I’ve been working on my own fix. I’ve also become a little obsessed…
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