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Did blink-182 inadvertently violate the Geneva Convention?
When people hear about violations to the Geneva Convention, their thoughts usually go to mass genocide, war crimes, deliberately targeting civilians & aid organizations in conflict zones, the list goes on. Most wouldn’t even consider the possibility of an album cover being a violation. Well, that’s exactly what happened to the punk band, blink-182. In…
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Exact Audio Copy
A while back I wrote something on dbPowerAmp, a software suite for ripping, encoding and organizing music CD’s. Considering the prevalence of streaming services, especially high resolution streaming, you wouldn’t be alone in thinking CD ripper programs would go the way of the dinosaur. That being said, there are still quite a lot of people…
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Qobuz
With the advent of streaming services on the Internet, it was inevitable that a lot of brick & mortar stores would go by the wayside, and music stores were no exception. Many of the music stores of yesteryear that we saw in malls, or even the sections of the department stores where there were racks…
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dbPowerAmp
If you’re anything like me, you rather enjoy listening to music, and have a fairly extensive CD collection. That being said, the standard Windows fare for ripping CD’s onto your computer, as well as iTunes for that matter, is somewhat lacking in terms of what you can do, which format you can encode in, and…
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Review: “In The Pale Moonlight” Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 6, Episode 19
The episode “In The Pale Moonlight” is definitely one of those episodes, not just in Star Trek canon, but in science fiction, that truly stands out as amazing for many reasons. For one, it flies in the face of Gene Roddenberry’s original vision of what Star Trek was supposed to be about; a utopian paradise…
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She-Hulk: Attorney At Law review
I just finished watching the first episode of the new Marvel Comics show She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, and color me impressed. I was honestly shaking my head at all the people, nee trolls, online who were complaining about every little thing they saw in the trailers, without even watching the show itself, which is now…
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World Of Warcraft Classic: Wrath of the Lich King
In addition to the Dragonflight announcement this morning, Blizzard also announced that World of Warcraft Classic will be bringing the Wrath of the Lich King expansion into the fold later in 2022. It was hardly unexpected since Wrath of the Lich King is considered by many to be the best World of Warcraft expansion ever…
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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
I just finished watching the release announcement for the new World of Warcraft expansion, Dragonflight. I have to say I’m very hopeful for this one. This seems to be the first expansion in a very long time where Blizzard legitimately seems to have listened to the fans and took the fans’ suggestions to heart. New…
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Review: Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster
To say that Final Fantasy VI is the greatest RPG game ever released is a massive understatement. Fans and critics alike consider it the high-water mark for RPG games. It literally changed the entire genre when it was released for the Super Nintendo in 1994, and is widely considered to be among the best video…
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World of Warcraft: Shadowlands retrospective
Having played video games for most of my life, and a wide range of them, I feel like I’ve seen my fair share of great games, crap games, games that showed promise but just fell flat, and everything in between. World of Warcraft, without question, has been the juggernaut of MMO gaming since its launch…