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Cute but Fun Story

Waking up this morning at 7:30 due to the fact it could be anywhere from 8 AM to 12PM when I would receive my couch and chair, they arrived at the shockingly appropriate time of 9:00 AM with my chair.
"Awesome, where's my couch?""What couch?"
You would think this would be the punchline for the joke but we're still in set up mode as the delivery men were mostly worried I'd blame them but I wasn't. So I went to call Big Sandy about it but they don't open to 10:00. However, they made some calls...

The Chicago Folios review

    THE CHICAGO FOLIOS is one of two supplements successfully added as Kickstarter stretch goals for the wildly successful CHICAGO BY NIGHT 5E for VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE. Chicago by Night 5th Edition updated the famous city supplement to the year 2018 and  brought substantial changes to the Windy City. Furthermore, it had a wonderful effect on games as a whole as like the web series LA BY NIGHT by Jason Carl, it illustrated to many fans how the new setting was supposed to...

Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey review

    HARLEY QUINN AND THE BIRDS OF PREY is the best movie I've watched this year aside from KNIVES OUT and that was on streaming. Mind you, it's only February and I think this film is far from flawless but this is a film that deserves to succeed. It is easily my favorite of the DCEU except for Wonder Woman and Margot Robbie does a fantastic job in making the kind of zany supervillain adventure that I've made my living writing with the Supervillainy Saga.

Margot Robbie is adorable...

99c Bookbub deal for Agent G: Infiltrator

 Hey folks,

If you haven't checked out my AGENT G series, it's available for 99c this month from Bookbub. It is a contemporary cyberpunk series that follows the transformation of our world into a dystopia ruled by megacorps. Agent G is a cybernetically-enhanced assassin who has had his memories erased by the sinister International Refugee Society, a megacorporation that uses its charity status to hide a murder-for-hire business that caters to the ultra-rich. He'll receive them back if he...

Knives Out (2019) review

    The mystery novel is something that has always had a rather large air of classicism to it, that I've often felt has been lost somewhat in imitation. Agatha Christie was a woman of means herself but part of the fun of her novels was the fact the wealthy were exposed as a bunch of cheating, lying, backstabbing assholes. Which was true to the life of the time period and today, I say as someone who grew up as part of the Country Club set before my family went from...

Resident Evil 2 (Remake) review

    I am a huge Resident Evil fan. It is something that dominates my gaming love even though I am terrible at playing them. Seriously, I'm both a fraidy cat as well as terrible at puzzles as well as zombie hunting. I somehow managed to screw up playing Resident Evil 4 by not realizing you were supposed to fight all the enemies versus running away. Thus, I ended up running out of ammo and weapons due to so much being from loot drops. Yes, that has to be a special achievement for...

V-Wars review

    I am a huge fan of vampires. This is something that anyone who knows can confirm. This isn't just because I've written vampire fiction but because I just can't get enough of the hungry undead monsters no matter what their form. I'm not a big fan of romantic vampires, though I make a few exceptions, but prefer the horribly cannibal kind that are genuinely terrifying. So when I heard Ian Somerhalder was going to be doing a horror vampire show, I was stoked. I liked him in ...

Feminist Grimdark recommendations

One of the things I love is grimdark fantasy. I write for Grimdark Magazine, I love numerous grimdark series, and I occasionally dip my toe in the genre even if I'm probably way too light-hearted a soul to really touch base with it despite my many grimdark protagonists. One of the things I recently had a conversation regarding, though, was about feminist grimdark.

For the sake of avoiding miscommunication, what do I define as feminist grimdark? Both feminist and grimdark? Feminist fiction for...

Interview with Matthew Dawkins about CULTS OF THE BLOOD GODS

Hey folks,
We have Matthew Dawkins here, line developer for VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE at Onyx Path Publishing, and prolific game writer for multiple series. He is also author of new game series THEY CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, which is a humorous tabletop roleplaying game line about adapting cheesy 1950s sci-fi ocean monster stories and Red Scare-era fiction.Today we're here to talk about CULTS OF THE BLOOD GODS, which is a product presently on Kickstarter for the aforementioned Vampire: The...

The Witcher (2019) review

    The Witcher is a series that I learned about from CD_Projekt Red the same as many other Western fans. We played the games that were non-canonical Expanded Universe sequels to the books well before the books became available in the English language. I've read those as well and was excited about the Witcher series being based on the original Andzej Sapkoski stories.

    However, after Game of Thrones, I had the worry that the series would be as schizophrenic as...