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Cinema of the Macabre: Rabid Grannies at Emagine Willow Creek, Plymouth (July 14, 2025)

vusleeper July 15, 2025

As a big movie fan and collector, particularly of the horror genre, so I am delighted to see such a good, or rather rabid, fanbase for the Cinema of the Macabre. This is a horror movie series, curated by Tim Alan Holly (who will also introduce the movie with some notes about the film), that takes place every Monday at Emagine Willow Creek, in Plymouth, and as a tourist, I attended the July 14th showing of Rabid Grannies.

Amazon Prime Day 2025

vusleeper July 8, 2025

Amazon Prime Day (July 8-11, 2025) Amazon Prime Day is here. The event will run...

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Cancellation Television

vusleeper July 6, 2025

Cancellation Television: The Sandman: Season 2 , Rick & Morty: Season 8

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Weekend Gamer: The Future of Xbox

vusleeper July 2, 2025

Ahead of the ROG Xbox Ally X, set for Holiday 2025, Xbox has updated their Xbox PC App to give you a preview of what to expect for the future of Xbox. Xbox is heavily betting their future on Game Pass and branding the Xbox name on other company’s hardware (for example Asus’ ROG Ally and Meta’s Quest VR).

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Weekend Gamer: Fallout Pip-Boy

vusleeper June 25, 2025

As a diehard Fallout fan, I have been collecting official Fallout merchandises for years and years. When the Amazon television series was announced in 2024, it was the best thing that could have happened for Fallout collectors. It meant that, for the first time in a long time, we got a ton of official Fallout merchandises, thanks to Amazon’s strong licensing department.

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Weekend Gamer: Xbox VR

vusleeper June 24, 2025

Without warning, Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition was suddenly available for sale today (June 24, 2025). This is an Xbox Edition of the standalone virtual reality headset Meta Quest 3S, which came out last October.

Lew Apollo at Midway Saloon, St Paul (June 19, 2025)

Thaddeus-WHM June 20, 2025

Midway Saloon Set Time 7:00pm Robert Robinson 8:00pm The Rondo Ramblers 9:00pm Dylan Wylde 10:00pm...

TekTok: Portable Air Conditioner

vusleeper June 18, 2025

It’s my first time experiencing summer in Florida, and I can tell you that I am not used to this weather. It gets really hot here, regularly in the mid-90s. June is the worst so far.

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Weekend Gamer: Summer of Gaming 2025

vusleeper June 8, 2025

As the resident Weekend Gamer, I am obligated to mention the craziness of this week in Summer Gaming! Traditionally, since most kids are outside during the summer, game sales are poor… so the gaming industry would announce games in the summer for games to be on sale this holiday or year end.

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TV: Killers and Murderers

vusleeper June 7, 2025

TV: Killers and Murderers - Predator: Killer of Killers, Murderbot

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Weekend Gamer: Update (May 2025)

vusleeper May 16, 2025

As for the gaming, I finally got around to putting together my Galaga Arcade1Up. I’ve had this thing in the original box for more than a year, because I knew eventually, I had to move to Jacksonville, and it was just easier to leave things in its compact state. When I put it together, I soon realized I did not bring my Pac-Man and Street Fighter II console controllers… so instead of putting the Galaga side art, I prefer the bright yellowness of the Pac-Man side.

Spectra 6

vusleeper May 11, 2025

The next generation of e-ink is here, and it is called Spectra 6.

The original Spectra had only three pigments (red, black, white), but over the years, they evolved to Spectra 6, featuring six colors: red, yellow, blue, white, black, and green… and through those combinations can produce about 60,000 colors.

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The age of the $80 video games

vusleeper May 1, 2025

The age of the $80 video games is here. It was first announced by Nintendo with its pricing for Mario Kart World.

Apocalypse Wow

vusleeper May 1, 2025

Apocalypse Wow - The Eternaut and The Last of Us: Season 2

Weekend Gamer: Oblivion Remastered Deluxe

vusleeper April 29, 2025

This is just an update on the new The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered game that was released last week (April 22, 2025). The Remastered is doing really well, as the developer Bethesda announced that they have over 4 million players playing the game.

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Weekend Gamer: Oblivion Remastered

vusleeper April 23, 2025

Bethesda and Xbox shadow dropped the new The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered yesterday (April 22, 2025). Prior to the release, there were a few leaks, showcasing the new Oblivion vs the original from 2006.

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Weekend Gamer: The Last of Us Part II

vusleeper April 22, 2025

With the new season of The Last of Us airing on HBO a few weeks ago, I’ve decided to finally get around to playing The Last of Us Part II video game, thanks to the game finally being available on PC (release date Apr 3, 2025).

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TP-Link Portable Wi-Fi Router

vusleeper April 13, 2025

The other funny thing that happened to me was that the cleaners took my Straight Talk Home Internet (Tracfone) and threw it in their landfill. I didn’t think I would get it back, so I called Tracfone to deactivate the device and cancel my internet service. After talking to the cleaners, they kept an eye out for it and found the internet modem and returned it back to me.

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Crime Time: Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Levon Cade

vusleeper April 7, 2025

Crime Time: Harry Bosch, Renee Ballard, and Levon Cade - Bosch Legacy: The Final Season
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Weekend Gamer: Nintendo Switch 2

vusleeper April 2, 2025

Everybody knew the Nintendo Switch 2 was coming… after all, it’s been eight years since the original Switch launched and in the last few years, the original Switch just could not play any modern games. Technically those games do run, but at ‘potato speed’ as the kids call it. I bought a few games that just sucked on the Switch that I gave up on that system when I got the Steam Deck (which was then replaced by the ROG Ally).

We♥KC! April 1-3, 2025 Upcoming concerts / shows (Kansas City, MO / Lawrence KS)

JohnC@weheartmusic.com March 31, 2025

Read more Kansas City Music Guide. April’s already here– The month looks really busy in...

Weekend Gamer: Play Anywhere

vusleeper March 23, 2025

I’ve been a big fan of Xbox Play Anywhere (XPA) program for a few years now, and was happy to hear from the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in California, that Xbox announced over 1,000 titles (they’re also counting the future titles South of Midnight and Doom: The Dark Ages) are now Xbox Play Anywhere.

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows: The Controversy

vusleeper March 20, 2025

The best-selling video game franchise, having sold more than 230 million games worldwide, is back with Assassin’s Creed Shadows. This is the fourteenth major Assassin’s Creed game and the setting is in Japan!

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Weekend Gamer: Xbox Keenan

vusleeper March 12, 2025

The much-rumored Xbox Handheld, codename Keenan, is coming to us closer than you think (I first mentioned this in Nov 2024)! The details are exclusively from a report via Windows Central. It’s set to be released this year (probably before Christmas to make for the maximum sale) and it is as much as I suspected: MicroSoft is just going to get a manufacturer to make their handheld. I think they are going to partner with Asus, who make the ROG Ally (my favorite handheld), to redesign an Xbox-branded ROG Ally. There will be some key difference, probably the branding and also that Xbox Button that you find on all their controller. The Xbox button would bring up a hotbar – similar to what you get when you’re playing on an Xbox Series X or S.

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Crime Time: Born Again and Persuader

vusleeper March 9, 2025

Crime Time: Born Again and Persuader - Daredevil: Born Again and Reacher: Season 3

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PlayStation: A year of L’s

vusleeper February 17, 2025

I honestly don’t know why there are so many PlayStation fans, this company has been making a series of horrible mistakes and failures.

Valentine Horror

vusleeper February 9, 2025

You know, with Valentine’s Day coming up on February 14, you would think the movie studios would be releasing romantic comedy films… but this year: it’s a hard no. Instead you’re seeing an action film called Love Hurts, Flight Risk, and Den of Thieves 2… and plenty of horror movies: Heart Eyes (a film about a serial killer on Valentine’s Day), The Monkey (a Stephen King horror story about a cursed monkey toy), Companion, Nosferatu, and Wolf Man… I think it’s cool, as a horror movie fans (after all I love the fact that for the months of October to December, we’re seeing a constant holiday horrors).

28 Hours Later

vusleeper January 28, 2025

Guys, you know I am a massive Alex Garland fan, and you know I love Danny Boyle. The two have teamed up once again to produce the upcoming 28 Years Later, the two re-united since the original 28 Days Later.

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Octosquid

vusleeper January 26, 2025

When Animals Attack: Squid, Squid Game, Jei-Ryan, Ruth Goller

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Weekend Gamer: Pillars of Eternity

vusleeper January 23, 2025

Back in late October, I started re-playing the original Pillars of Eternity with the intention of beating it. I did technically “rolled credits”, but it wasn’t an ending that I wanted. So I restarted the game to beat it properly, because I was going to skip over Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Originally excited for the game, but after seeing all the negative reviews, I’ve decided to not play it at all.