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Dune 2021 movie review

W ell here we are again back into deep space, where the the folks fight for a throne and politics are the dish of the day. So I am going to go into this review as my son would have experienced it and not as a super overexcided middle aged man seeing the wonderful SciFi stories of his youth retold. Well here we are and it is "Game of Thrones in Space", where Jon Snow is a super skinny and spoiled kid who seems to be having mushroom hallucinative type dreams and really needs to eat more and get a little time with some free weights. I am not sure he is trying to be the next ruler of his planet or trying out for the next K-pop band. Ok, more seriously, what is up with all the 18th century victorian decor? How did we in the year 10,000 get back to corset, elaborate nun's, and nutcraker soldier uniforms. Also seriously an Emperor? what happened to Democracy, I assume it also died out. But regardless the asthetics are quite pleasing and watching this on a 50+ foot screen

Is Roblox the new Twitter?

    Long a go there these crazy tech heads who pushed the idea of everyone should have a voice , without publishers, TV executives, news editors , radio producers. Where a little hard work and a little tech knowledge would give anyone a voice. This was the Internet revolution in the mid 1990’s , where anyone would type up some HTML and make a website. Then later came the search engine and then the epitome of this distribution which was blogs with easy to use wysiwyg editors and easy platforms like blogger and Wordpress. To me this is akin to the game self publishing revolution. Originally game engines were these massively expensive and specialized pieces of software like Gamebryo and 3DS Max and Photoshop, that required even more cost prohibitive hardware PCs , and here again were these giant publishers and license holders. But then just like the Internet to blog revolution where the tooling became easy and to some degree free, same thing happened in the game industry with tools such a